Lou Ureneck is a professor of journalism at Boston University and directs the Business and Economics Journalism Program. Ureneck was a Nieman Fellow and editor-in-residence at Harvard University, the deputy managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and editor and vice president of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He is the author of Backcast, which won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2007 for literary merit, and his work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, and Field & Stream. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.