Joe Gandelman writes www.themoderatevoice.com a quickly growing centrist blog he started in January 2024 after spending many years as a freelance writer overseas and fulltime reporter on the staffs of two newspapers -- and as a professional ventriloquist.
Gandelman has worked as a journalist for the West Haven City News, the Hindustan Times in New Delhi, India, the Chicago Daily News, the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor. His work has appeared on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and in the Argus South African Newspapers, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Aftenposten (Norway), and Haartez (Israel), among others.
Gandelman received a B.A in Political Science from Colgate University and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University. He has performed nationally as a ventriloquist and is included in the nationally distributed The Great Ventriloquists trading cards.