Bruce E. Beans, editorial director, is a long-time journalist and freelance writer/editor. He has extensive experience managing projects and producing a wide range of materials, including consumer-oriented magazine articles and newsletters, annual reports, web copy, brochures and ghost-written trade magazine articles for nonprofits, health insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, universities, public utilities and law firms.
A graduate of LaSalle University’s English program, Beans served as a writer and editor at the Daily Intelligencer in Doylestown, Pa., and was the federal and city courts reporter for the Philadelphia Journal. He also has worked or written for the two major Philadelphia daily newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, as well as the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.
His journalism work also has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, Reader’s Digest, Audubon magazine, Philadelphia magazine, New Jersey Monthly, Atlantic City magazine; the Sunday magazines of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Orlando Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News; and the magazines of the Pan-American Health Organization and the American Psychological Association.
In addition to health issues, he also focuses on the environment. He is the author of Eagle’s Plume: the Struggle to Preserve the Life and Haunts of America’s Bald Eagle (Scribner, 1996; University of Nebraska Press, 1997) and co-editor of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, 2003). For a decade he was the editor and writer for the New Jersey Endangered and Nongame Species Program and Conserve Wildlife Foundation of N.J. He also recently authored Riverton Country Club: A Resilient Refuge, the 107-year history of a South Jersey golf and country club.