Chad Lorenz

Editor-in-Chief

Chad Lorenz has a 20-year background in newspaper, magazine, and online journalism at local and national levels, previously working as an editor at Slate.com, the Washington Post, and Washingtonian magazine. Chad is a graduate of the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

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