Brian James Kirk is a freelance journalist, journalism educator and graphic designer living in Fairmount, Philadelphia.
In 2009, Kirk co-founded Technically Philly, a news startup covering technology and innovation in the Philadelphia region, helping to build an audience of 13,000 local readers. He is a an editor at MobileBurn, a consumer publication covering the mobile phone industry. An adjunct journalism professor at Temple University, Kirk speaks regularly to undergraduate and high school journalism students in classes and at conferences. See his full resume.
Kirk is a regular contributor to Philadelphia City Paper, for which he pens geek culture column Peer-to-peer. He has written about Philadelphia’s burgeoning social technology scene in a weekly column for Philebrity and he has been published by Grid magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia magazine, and two.one.five magazine, among others. He received a first place award for health reporting in 2009 by the Keystone Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. See his writing portfolio.
Kirk is also a professional designer of interactive and print work, expert with Photoshop and Adobe InDesign and experienced with Adobe Flash, XHTML and CSS. See his print and multimedia portfolios.
