Brian J. Buchanan is managing editor/online for the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn. The Web site is the First Amendment Center Online at www.firstamendmentcenter.org.

Buchanan has also been publications director, director of journalism programs, and media-relations director for the Freedom Forum, which he joined in 1985 as staff writer.

He has worked in public information at the State University of New York College at Brockport and as an advertising copywriter for the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co. in Rochester, N.Y. For more than five years he was a copy editor and night news editor at the daily Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper.

Buchanan holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a master's in English from the State University of New York. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Juda.

Brian J. Buchanan
Managing editor/online
First Amendment Center
at Vanderbilt University
1207 18th Ave. S.
Nashville, TN 37212
bbuchanan@fac.org