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Over the past few bleary-eyed months, with little concern for health, nutrition, or REM cycles, Faraone has spent almost every waking hour honing his insight into America's economic counterculture. He has covered Occupy like a one-man swarm: embedding full-time at Boston's Dewey Square encampment; visiting other movements around the country; juggling feature stories, blog posts, radio spots, and Twitter fights. - Justin Peters, Columbia Journalism Review Of [the first three books released about Occupy Wall Street], [99 Nights], a series of vignettes from assorted Occupy encampments by Chris Faraone, a Boston-based journalist, is the best read. Though absolutely pro-Occupy, Mr Faraone retains some critical perspective. He paints a telling picture of the mix of exhilaration, boredom, confusion and absurdity that accompanies the growth of a grassroots movement. He even profiles a con man who scammed Occupy Boston into giving him control of its finances. - The Economist 99 Nights With The 99 Percent, a collection of his insider reporting on the Occupy movement, is required reading. I know, I know. You were told there wouldn't be homework. - Charles P. Pierce, Esquire.com When Queens native Chris Faraone moved to Boston in 2004, he arrived as an outspoken journalist inspired by the voices of politically minded hip-hop artists like Chuck D and Talib Kweli. Now 32 and a prominent staff writer at the Boston Phoenix (where this writer also contributes), Faraone is thick in the fray of the very political issues that inspired some of his idols - fairness, social justice and other core virtues of the Occupy Movement, which helped inform his debut book, 99 Nights with the 99 Percent. - Jonathan Donaldson, Boston Metro Chris Faraone of the Boston Phoenix has been on top of the Occupy movement since the jump off, a phrase I use there because it sounds vaguely hip hop, a subject he also covers with gusto. His work typically outshone anything coming out of the more mainstream press. Catch up some of it in the Phoenix here. Sensing something rotten in the air, Faraone took off around the country to take the temperature of the movement, or to be more accurate, snap on a pair of latex gloves, and tell the world to bend over and cough. - Luke O'Neil, PTSOTL Few reporters have been as active in covering the Occupy movement in Boston as Chris Faraone. - WGBH Chris Faraone's iron-man coverage of the Occupy movement has been an inspiration. - Dan Kennedy, Media Nation While the rest of us were sitting around in our underwear adding humorous captions to YouTube videos of Joey Boots and the legendary Lotion Man, Chris Faraone of the Boston Phoenix was out there in the streets, '60-style, freezing his ass off, smoking weed, running the risk of catching some heretofore unheard of disease. - Byron Crawford Faraone's book, like the movement itself, is diverse and challenging. The structure is strictly chronological, but swings wildly between a number of different occupations, personalities, and events. During the first three months of Occupy, Faraone crisscrossed the country at a dizzying pace, and his writing manages to capture at least some of that madness. In between working groups and flash-bang grenades, the book overflows with interviews, photos, and blistering first-hand narrative. - UTNE Reader A panel at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism comparing the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements was stacked with liberal journalists who offered one-sided conclusions, according to one alumnus who attended the event ... Panelists at the event, which was held on Oct. 1 in the prestigious school's Pulitzer Hall, made 'little attempt to hide their sympathies' to the Occupy movement. - Fox News

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Chris Faraone is an award-winning journalist (AAN, NENPA), a former Boston Phoenix Staff Writer, the current News + Features Editor of DigBoston, and an adjunct professor of communications at Salem State University. He has more than a decade of media experience, has published four books on his own imprint, and has written features for publications ranging from The American Prospect to BuzzFeed. Most recently he co-founded the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, and has also co-written books with legendary hip-hop acts including Cypress Hill and Raekwon.

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