About John
John Roach is a storyteller, writer and editor with two decades of experience as a science and technology journalist. He is curiosity driven, dives into research, ask questions and sculpts answers into narratives that resonate with readers.
Today, he brings the research, interpersonal and reporting skills learned and practiced as a journalist to help clients communicate about artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, digital infrastructure and sustainability. His work is often in the form of journalism-style news features. He also ghostwrites thought leadership articles for executives, edits technical documents and writes case studies.
In addition to writing and editing, John’s client engagements regularly involve consulting on content strategy, collaborating with visual and audio storytellers on multimedia packages, and managing relationships with sources and stakeholders.
John graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in American literature and a teaching certificate for secondary education. He started his career as an English teacher at an independent day school in Santiago, Chile. A wish to write for a living led John to a job as a daily news reporter at ENN.com, a pioneer in digital media, where he covered energy, the environment, science and technology.
While a staff writer at ENN.com, John helped launch a daily news website for National Geographic. He subsequently worked as a correspondent for National Geographic News for more than 15 years, covering everything from dinosaur discoveries and human evolution to global climate change and the search for life on other planets. Later in his journalism career, John covered science and technology for MSNBC.com and NBCNews.com. His writing has also been published in numerous newspapers, magazines and digital properties ranging from High Country News and Powder, the skier’s magazine, to Yale Environment 360.
He’s always open to discuss new opportunities. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn, or send him an email.