Categories: OLD Media Moves

Ex-NYTimes auto writer starts Kickstarter for new book

Micheline Maynard, a former New York Times automotive writer, has started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new book about why people are driving less.

The journalism project is called “Curbing Cars: Rethinking How We Get Around.”

“Curbing Cars” will be an ebook that will look at bike sharing (think Citibikes and Divvy), car sharing programs like ZipCar, ride sharing projects such as Uber, and people seeking walkable communities, explained Maynard.

“Curbing Cars” also will analyze what this means to the future of the auto industry. “We know many young people are putting off getting their licenses, and student debt means new graduates are delaying the purchase of their first car,” said Maynard.

Her sidekick in “Curbing Cars” is Rick Meier, a historian and communications specialist who’s based in Toronto, so the project has both an American and Canadian outlook.

They’re aiming to raise $10,000 by Aug. 12, and are aiming for the ebook to be published in early 2014.

Here’s the Kickstarter link.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.