Buck Wolf

Introduction

  • Executive Editor of Trends for HuffPost
  • National affairs reporter and entertainment news producer and columnist for ABC News
  • Managing editor of Court TV Online
  • One of the Fashion Police for US Weekly magazine
  • On-air TV and radio personality 

Experience

Buck Wolf is a former writer for ThoughtCo and contributed work for over seven years. He has cut a strange-but-true path through the world of journalism as one of the country's best-known weird news reporters.

As a columnist and entertainment producer at ABCNews.com, Buck has written on everything from modern mummification to U.S. sperm exports. Before joining ABC News, Buck served as Managing Editor at Court TV's website, where he spent two years covering the trials of O.J. Simpson.

As part of the national broadcast team at the Coney Island Hot Dog Easting Contest, Buck has offered chew-by-chew analysis of humanity's quest to stretch its collective stomach to unthinkable extremes. He was a regular guest on TV Land's Myths & Legends and has appeared on the radio shows Countdown With Keith Olbermann and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. He was also found on the back pages of Us Weekly, as part of the magazine's famed Fashion Police.

Education

M.S., Journalism and International Affairs, Columbia University

B.A., English, State University of New York at Buffalo

Awards and Publications
  • HuffPost
  • Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Award for humor
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Reader's Digest Traveling Fellowship
  • Western Knight Center fellowship, University of California, Berkeley.

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