Sam Coleman is a troubadour of text, a writer and editor who’s life is defined as documenting cultures—both foreigners and indigenous—in magazines and print projects across the globe.

His investigative journalism (Iraq, GHB, the fate of Mollukkans in the Netherlands) has appeared in Stern, Vive, The Guardian and others. His freelance work is represented by The Cover Story, now in India. Presently, he's the executive editor for Mongoose Asia, a group that publishes Expatriate Lifestyle, Time Out Kuala Lumpur, The Circular, Golf Vacations, Arrivals, Al Musafir and others out of Malaysia as well as the section editor for Nightlife in Time Out KL.

He’s also done extensive profiles including political and social figures like former President Bill Clinton; broke the internationally renowned story of Attila Ambrus the Whisky Robber in Hungary; was one of the first journalists to interview Belgian Islamic political extremist Abu Ja Ja (an article that caused him to receive death threats from the same convicted murderer of Theo van Gogh); Nobel Prize winning economist Muhamed Yunus and the former Philippine president Fidel Ramos to name a few.

His specialty are creatives though: entertainers, intellectuals, celebrity oddities and simply interesting entities that make a culture and a place.  Writers Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer; Jonathon Saffran Foer (Everything is Illuminated); David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty Someday); Joe Klein (Primary Colors) and other literary figures;  artists such as Yoko Ono; photographic legends Annie Leibovitz and Cindy Sherman; Jaques Lebel; popstars like Sonic Youth; The Red Hot Chili Peppers; Madonna and others. Business leaders such as former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch and present CEO of Heineken, Jean François van Boxmeer. His lost weekend with Ron Jeremy in Amsterdam, the American porn star, and a wild goat was one of his stranger experiences. His travel pieces include reports on Mykonos, Greece; St. Martin, the Caribbean; Paris; Transylvania, Romania and others.

CNN did a World Report item about Sam when we was covering his favorite story in Holland, the 101 Worst, Weirdest and most Wonderful things to do in the Netherlands as well as being profiled in the countries most prestigious publication, Vrij Nederland. He has appeared as a guest on more than 17 TV and radio talk shows a as guest as well as at political debates and public functions.

He’s lived ten years in Budapest Hungary (1990-2000) first starting as an archaeologist for the Derî Museum in Debrecen, conducting paleoethnobotanical research on Neolithic sites, teaching Native American history and anthropology at ELTE University and then moving onto media. He was the editor of Central Europe’s first independent foreign language paper, Budapest Week (Award Best Publication Design worldwide, 1995, under 50,000 print run), as well as Group Editor for Budapest Style, Where Magazine, Business Hungary, NLG and others in the years following communism, as free and uncensored media sprung up in these countries. He was the editor of and Expatriates Handbook to Hungary as well as the Best of Budapest and pioneered a pirate radio program on Tilós Radio called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Unlistenable’ who’s guests included Kurt Loder of MTV and internet guru and columnist John Barlow.

In 2000, he came to the Netherlands, living six years in Amsterdam where he became Editor-in-Chief of Expats Magazine and became a contributor and columnist to Amsterdam Weekly (Lekker Bezig), Expatica, Roundabout (Ssay) and Sum Magazine (the Internationals).

From 2004, he became Chief Editor for Heineken International, revamping the publications Horizon and the World of Heineken and structuring with new algorithms and ways of working that set the bar for what corporate journalism can look like.

In late 2006 he came to Asia to help breathe new life into a publishing enterprise called Vision KL, one of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's leading arts and entertainment magazines. He quickly revamped the whole graphic design and editorial, expanded the newsstand sales and relaunched the website, www.visionkl.com. On the commercial side, he helped publish almost 12 supplements, in the course of one year be they fashion magazines (Melium); shopping guides (The Curve, Suria); editorially driven client products (Sunway, F1) or culture guides (KL Arts Festival). He also implemented the communication and publishing and strategy for the Malaysia International Gourmet Festival, a prestigious and large culinary event in Malaysia. He is exceptionally happy to have launched The Do's, Malaysia's first digital ezine, delivered via email.

But since 2008, Sam has landed one of his more fulfilling roles as executive editor of a young, dynamic publishing group that has a tagline of 'Integrity in publishing' that resonates with his values. As such he's looking forward to growing with the company and helping it develop its long-term ambitions. This year alone, 5 new titles were added and 2010 looks to be similarly robust.

When asked, Sam will reply that his proudest moments came with Expats Magazine, the publication that challenged the Netherlands’ retreat from liberality on immigration and a multicultural society. His profiles of Pim Fortuyn legacy and the power of the Dutch Queen’s power, essays on language and social processes still stand the test of time and portended well the changes that came, years after their publication.

He's currently working on a biography/memoir of the Latin poet and traveller Eric Johnson and enjoying the birth of a child with his wife, Swedish DJ Stella Nutella.