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About Me

Samuel J. Scott is a former Boston journalist and newspaper editor who is currently living in Israel. He is finishing his International M.B.A. while working as a consultant in online marketing and pursuing part-time yeshiva studies as well. Scott’s LinkedIn page is here. The Facebook fan page for Scott and his blog is here.

In the past, Scott was Marketing and Communications Manager for the Israeli high-tech company Speech Modules, Website Marketing Manager for ForexPros.com, and Marketing and SEO Writer for Coolvision.

In Boston, Scott was Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of Spare Change News, an alternative newspaper and non-profit organization. Prior to working at SCN, he wrote for Massachusetts newspapers including The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The Boston Courant, and The Beacon Hill Times, as well as TNT magazine in London. Prior to working in journalism, Scott was a Staff Assistant at the Beacon Hill Institute, an economic think-tank at Suffolk University.

Scott has a B.S. in journalism from Boston University. He is studying in the International M.B.A. program at Bar-Ilan University after pursuing prior studies in the Executive M.B.A. program at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott is also a part-time student at the Machon Meir yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has lived, traveled, or studied in Britain, Canada, Egypt, India, and Israel, as well as in various parts of the United States. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Belleville, Illinois, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. Scott currently lives in Israel.

Scott can be contacted at sjscworldwide (at) gmail.com (without the spaces). His opinions are his own and not necessarily reflective of any employer, client, or university. Scott’s mother tongue is English, and he is proficient in Hebrew and French as well. The name of his blog — “Considerations” — is that of his regular column while he was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston.