John Eckberg is a career journalist with 28 years of experience in the challenging field of daily newspaper reporting. A graduate of Ohio University, he has been a business reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer for more than a decade and is responsible for covering of retail issues, Macy's, Inc., the Kroger Co. and other topics.
John has covered numerous beats including federal courts, investigative reporter, feature writing, neighborhood columns and urban development. Widely published, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today and many other American print and Web publications. A former weekly newspaper managing editor at the Canal Fulton Signal News - where we covered you like the early morning dew - he is also the author of The Success Effect: Uncommon Conversations with America's Business Trailblazers (Sterling & Ross; 2008); Have A Crumby Book: Wit and Whimsy from Cincinnati's Favorite Bakery (Clerisy; 2007) and co-author of Road Dog (Federal Point Publishing; 2005), a true-crime thriller about serial killer Glen Rogers of Hamilton, Ohio.
A Cincinnati resident, Eckberg currently has several other projects underway, including The Mud Daddy Chronicles, a 265-page recipe book and fishing memoir of 25 years of annual fishing trips; and Pot of Gold, a best-practices business book.
