John Joseph Brady lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is a visiting professor who teaches news writing and editing, as well as graphics at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has been a partner in with Greg Paul since 1984 in Brady & Paul Communications, a magazine publishing consultancy. Brady has an obsession with crows and has mentioned multiple times in his classes that his favorite publication is the newsletter Crow Quarterly. He is also the adviser for the very successful college start-up, Backdrop Magazine.