He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 and dropped out of a Ph.D. Ĭarney holds a number of academic and professional appointments including as a contributing editor at Wired, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, and as a judge for the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. In 2018 Foxtopus Ink released the podcast Wild Thing the search for bigfoot. In 2015 he founded the tiny Denver-based media company Foxtopus Ink which produces audio books, video courses and podcasts. He reported from Chennai, India between 2006–2009. He founded the website WordRates, which operated from 2015 to 2017, to provide journalists a new way to sell and market their work. He is unusual in that he argues that magazines often have exceptionally high profits, and the low pay and contract terms that writers get are better attributed to exploitative business practices instead of a poor overall market for the written word. Ĭarney is an outspoken advocate of freelance writers and writes frequently on his blog about the struggles that freelance journalists face both in the field and navigating the business side of the profession. His 2020 book, The Wedge explores the core concepts of the Wim Hof Method and applies them to a wide array of physical training. The book that came out of that research, What Doesn't Kill Us, spent two months on the New York Times bestseller list in 2017. Ĭarney was the first American journalist to write about Iceman" Wim Hof in a 2014 article in Playboy. Carney contributes stories on a variety of medical, technological and ethical issues to Wired, Mother Jones, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Men's Journal, and National Public Radio. He's the author of four books: The Red Market, The Enlightenment Trap, What Doesn't Kill Us and The Wedge. Scott Carney (born July 9, 1978) is an American investigative journalist, author and anthropologist.
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