Waiting for an interview at South Philadelphia's B2 in April 2009. Photo by Philadelphia-based photojournalist Neal Santos. See more at NealSantos.com.

Christopher Wink the marketing director for Back on My Feet, a homeless advocacy nonprofit based in Center City Philadelphia. A resident of the Fishtown neighborhood, I am also co-founder of Technically Philly, a news site covering technology and innovation in the Delaware Valley, and the Web editor and business manager for Northeast Philadelphia hyperlocal news site NEast Philly.

I also maintain a freelance writing and editing portfolio. Contact me here.

On this professional site, I share clips and write about the future of news, social media and entrepreneurship. I am new and green and curious and learning. The ideas presented here are meant to be nothing more than that, the discoveries of a 20-something journalist and small-time Web entrepreneur. In no way should they reflect my employer or any of the other brands with which I associate.

After graduating from Temple University in May 2008, I was named among the 100 most promising young journalists by UWire, a college news service.

I graduated May 22, 2008 with a political science degree from Temple University in Philadelphia.

The following summer I served a post-graduate internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association — the oldest political journalism society in the country — covering state government in the Harrisburg, Pa. Capitol.

I started full-time freelancing in November 2008 after returning from more than a month backpacking Europe, travel blogging and podcasting at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. I additionally edited video, took photographs and organized the site’s Web presence.

I have intense interest in government, urban politics, travel, and stories of community and humanity. My writing has appeared on Sports Illustrated.com, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Allentown Morning Call, and the Harrisburg Patriot News. I have additionally freelanced for Philadelphia CityPaper and Philadelphia Weekly covered state government for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, reported for the Philadelphia Business Journal and blogged for NBC Digital Studios.

I studied in West Africa, lived in Japan, and traveled through Eastern China and Western Europe, all on my own, with pen in hand and eyes wide open. Read about other experiences here.

I grew up in northwest New Jersey, a rural community quickly incorporating an intensifying suburban expansion, protected by a kind family of warmth and privilege. My studies at Temple University brought me to Philadelphia, a big urban city with a complex of defeatism and ten million other reasons for the young and curious to devote themselves to it.

ChristopherWink.com launched on Dec. 3, 2007 more to leave a footprint in what is the always expanding Internet community than to serve an explicit purpose today. There is nothing I hope to avoid more than to fall into self-indulgent blog rhetoric or masturbatory online informality. This is merely a humble reservation with greater hopes in mind.

During the first week of July 2009, I moved this site from Wordpress.com to an independently-hosted version.

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