Roy Sekoff
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Roy Sekoff is the founding editor of The Huffington Post
. He was born and raised in Miami.
Before helping launch The Huffington Post, he was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore
’s Emmy-winning TV Nation
. Sekoff served as the head writer for the 2000 Shadow Conventions, and as Communications Director for Arianna Huffington
’s 2003 gubernatorial campaign.
He has also worked as a screenwriter
-- penning scripts for 20th Century Fox, Universal, Disney, Caravan, and Sony -- and as a free-lance journalist, writing for publications including The Village Voice, The Times, Elle, Redbook, and Rock Magazine.
Sekoff is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, and has appeared on The Ed Show, The Joy Behar Show, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor, Entertainment Tonight, and Anderson Cooper/360, among others.
In 2010, he was one of the Executive Producers of Freshmen, a pilot for ABC created by Greg Malins.
In college (at the University of Miami) he was voted "Funniest Man on Campus". He starred in a "B" movie Animal-House-type comedy "King Frat" filmed in Miami and Coral Gables.
Sekoff is also a frequent guest on the morning news series, "In Natan Cohen". He discuses his views and talks on modern-day economics.
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
. He was born and raised in Miami.
Before helping launch The Huffington Post, he was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore
Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
’s Emmy-winning TV Nation
TV Nation
Production on the pilot episode of TV Nation began in January 1993. Moore initially turned to friends and colleagues in many production areas, while also making a point to ensure the show's employees were unionized. For the show's title sequence, graphic designer Chris Harvey put together the...
. Sekoff served as the head writer for the 2000 Shadow Conventions, and as Communications Director for Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s...
’s 2003 gubernatorial campaign.
He has also worked as a screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
-- penning scripts for 20th Century Fox, Universal, Disney, Caravan, and Sony -- and as a free-lance journalist, writing for publications including The Village Voice, The Times, Elle, Redbook, and Rock Magazine.
Sekoff is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, and has appeared on The Ed Show, The Joy Behar Show, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor, Entertainment Tonight, and Anderson Cooper/360, among others.
In 2010, he was one of the Executive Producers of Freshmen, a pilot for ABC created by Greg Malins.
In college (at the University of Miami) he was voted "Funniest Man on Campus". He starred in a "B" movie Animal-House-type comedy "King Frat" filmed in Miami and Coral Gables.
Sekoff is also a frequent guest on the morning news series, "In Natan Cohen". He discuses his views and talks on modern-day economics.