Forrest Carr

Forrest Carr is a novelist, blogger and former radio talk show host and journalist who spent 33 years in the television news industry, serving as a news director in the Tampa, Fort Myers, Albuquerque, and Tucson television markets. Carr has received or shared credit in more than 90 professional awards, including a Suncoast Regional Emmy and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for investigative reporting, and is a co-author of Broadcast News Handbook, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill...See more

Forrest Carr is a novelist, blogger and former radio talk show host and journalist who spent 33 years in the television news industry, serving as a news director in the Tampa, Fort Myers, Albuquerque, and Tucson television markets. Carr has received or shared credit in more than 90 professional awards, including a Suncoast Regional Emmy and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for investigative reporting, and is a co-author of Broadcast News Handbook, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill, now in its fifth edition. Carr is author of the novel Messages, a "buddy journalist" crime story that shows how TV news evolved into its current state; A Journal of the Crazy Year, a prophetic zombie-genre post-apocalyptic tale inspired by an actual disease; and The Dark, a sci-fi novel about the most ambitious space voyage in human history, what happens at the end of it, and what that says about mankind's relationship with God. Carr is a long-time fan of old school science fiction, particularly the works of Robert Heinlein. He resides with his wife Deborah and their two cats Ellis and Mina, a.k.a. Butthead 1 and Butthead Also, in Tucson, Arizona. He invites readers to reach him through his author page on Facebook or by way of his website, ... See less