About

This is the site for Sam Eifling, a writer, editor and photographer. My day job is reporting for Arkansas Business, a weekly journal in Little Rock. My nights are spent doing things that make it hard to get up at 7 the next morning.

If you're the sort of person who pays people like me, here are some particulars. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, I've covered news, sports and culture for daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the Web for more than 10 years. Happy eighth birthday, kid. Here's "The Giant Book of Facts." After internships at the Columbus Dispatch (sports), the Lexington Herald-Leader (news, sports, copy desk), the Miami Herald (features) and the Chicago Tribune (metro desk), I fact-checked at New York magazine for a brief spell, then moved to Melbourne, Fla., where I wrote features for Florida Today. From the daily in central Florida I moved to Fort Lauderdale, where I worked as a staff writer for New Times Broward-Palm Beach for nearly three years, there winning national and regional awards for long-form stories. (My favorite pieces: a kamikaze death, the voyeurism of ass-kickings, a down-and-out former gambling fixer, a kerfuffle over a new mosque, a grieving and self-immolating military dad, a daft Marlins manager, a hard-luck VA nurse, pious bullriders, chasing game in the Amazon ... good times, all.) I ditched to take an editorial internship at Harper's Magazine, then left New York for Little Rock and a company ESPN hires to cover the outdoors and rodeo. As features editor for those sites, I covered fishing, hunting, conservation, rodeo and odd Americana from Puget Sound to the Tamiami Trail to Walter Reed, and edited both deadline and non-deadline copy. I'm onto freelancing -- for Slate, for the Arkansas Times, for whomever -- but only by moonlight and on weekends.

When I shoot photos -- as I have regularly for more than two years -- I do so with a Canon 30D, in RAW, and process them using Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom. When I record audio, I do so using Olympus' foxy little LS-10 and process it using Adobe Audition.

If you need to get ahold of me, Gmail: sameifling at.

And cheers.