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'#redirect[[Weblogs, Inc.#TV Squad]] {{Infobox artist | name = <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|06|09}} | birth_place = [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]], U.S. | website = {{URL|http://www.bobsassone.com/}} }} Bob Sassone is an American essayist, columnist, humorist, and blogger from [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]]. ==Career== ===Columnist=== Sassone began his career in 1988 writing a weekly music column for ''North Shore Magazine'', a magazine inserted into several Massachusetts newspapers. He left in 1990 to create his own music magazine, ''RPM'', which he published until 1992. Since 2014 he has written a weekly column, "News of the Week," for ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''. ===Essayist=== Sassone has written essays, features and reviews for a variety of publications and sites, including ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[USA Today]]'', [[Vulture.com]], [[The A.V. Club|The AV Club]], [[McSweeney's]], and ''[[Boston Herald|The Boston Herald]]''. In 2003, he published ''[https://bookwithwordsandpages.wordpress.com/ Book, with Words and Pages]'', a collection of essays and short humor pieces housed inside a box. ===Blogger=== Sassone created one of the world's first blogs in 1996 and it still exists today. At the same time he was a community editor at [[Tripod (web hosting)|Tripod]] and also published the print newsletter ''Channel Surfer Journal'', which focused on TV. The site caught the attention of the people at [[Weblogs, Inc.|Weblogs, Inc]] and he was hired to be the editor of the [[TV Squad]] blog in 2005. When AOL bought Weblogs, Inc. in late 2005, Sassone continued to be a staff writer and editor for TV Squad and several other AOL properties until he was laid off with several other writers in April, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Confirmed: AOL Gives Over 200 US Employees Pink Slips |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/10/confirmed-aol-gives-over-200-u-s-employees-pink-slips/ |website=Techcrunch |publisher=Techcrunch |access-date=10 April 2011}}</ref> ===Other Work=== In 2002, Sassone launched the online pop culture magazine [https://professorbarnhardt.wordpress.com/ Professor Barnhardt's Journal]. Contributors to the site have included [[Roger Ebert]], [[Michael J. Nelson]], [[Lawrence Block]], [[Jonathan Lethem]], [[Will Leitch]], [[Joe Bob Briggs]], [[Laura Miller (writer)|Laura Miller]], and [[Joel Stein]]. He has been a guest and commentator on [[PBS]], [[MSNBC]], FX's ''[[Breakfast Time (1993 TV program)|Breakfast Time]]'', and various podcasts. While attending Salem Stage College he hosted his own weekly radio show on WMWM-FM. Sassone is a contributing editor at [https://sundaylongread.com/ The Sunday Long Read] and a member of the [https://www.columnists.com/ National Society of Newspaper Columnists]. ===Controversy=== In 2021, Sassone wrote an essay on why he was giving up freelancing after 30 years titled Goodbye Freelancing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Goodbye Freelancing |url=https://sassone.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/goodbye-freelancing/ |website=bobsassone.com |publisher=Bob Sassone |access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref> The piece explained how freelancing worked, how much money he made, and detailed his treatment by some magazine editors. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External Links== * [http://www.bobsassone.com Official website] * [https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/post-week-in-review/ ''Saturday Evening Post'' column] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American humorists]] [[Category:American columnists]] [[Category:American bloggers]] [[Category:Writers from Massachusetts]] [[Category:1965 births]]'