Specializing in advertorial, transmedia and long-form copywriting.
Specializing in advertorial, transmedia and long-form copywriting, John Scott Lewinski brings more than nine years of professional experience to his clients.
He holds proven experience in many facets of the high-tech, consumer, automotive, entertainment and publishing industries as a marketing, advertising, public relations and creative services writer. He enjoys working for a number of excellent companies, including Hennessy, the NHTSA, Rolex, Marriott, RadioShack, Coca-Cola, RCI, Regus, Rogers & Cowan, InsightTimer.com, Conde Nast, Petersen Publishing, Fox Family Channel, E! Entertainment Television, Broderbund Software, BET, Evolve Media and Virgin Interactive.
Lewinski continues to develop special expertise in the CBD, Hemp Oil and Medicial Marijuana fields, serving as a copywritier for everything from 50,000 word brochures to press releases.
As a journalist, he writes for more than 30 international magazines and news sites. He covers lifestyle, travel, cars, motorcycles, technology, golf, liquor, fashion and other related topics.
Along the way, he chased tornados across five states; drove an amateur stage of the Baja 500; lived like Neolithic man off the Orkneys; raised a replica of the Star Spangled banner over Fort McHenry for its 200th anniversary; raced a Corvette Stingray to the 2015 MLB All-Star Game; pulled lobster pots in the Atlantic off the Isle of Scilly; won a Dabbawala race through Mumbai; flew a plane over Los Angeles; blended his own Scotch outside Glasgow; attended cowboy school in Montana; remotely piloted a $65 million lunar lander; competed in a rally race through Lithuania; controlled the Fountains at the Bellagio; blew his own glass in Colorado; drove the car that won the Dakar Rally through Death Valley; hunted black bears in Tennessee; played in a cross-country golf tournament in France and served as keeper for a day at the London Zoo.
His publications include Time, BBC Travel, Esquire, The Atlantic, Fortune, Marie Claire, Playboy, Travel + Leisure, Modern Luxury, Robb Report, Hemispheres, Rhapsody, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, American Way, Prevention, Ars Technica, The Advocate, Thrillist, Trusted Reviews, Slate, AAA’s Via, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, CNET, Popular Science, Business Day, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ABC News Online. He enjoyed interviewing Jack Nicklaus, William Shatner, Danica Patrick, Liam Neeson, Dwight Howard, Jeff Bridges, DeMarcus Ware, James Cameron, Marc Ecko, Jimmie Johnson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Al Michaels and The Stig.
In 2012, he became a freelance automotive editor, traveling to vehicle rollouts for Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, Lexus, Ford, Toyota, Mazda, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, Star and Ducati. He turned laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Road America, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Atlanta Motorsports Park, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NOLA Motorsports Park and Circuit of the Americas. Lewinski trained in rally racing with the Dirtfish School and track driving with the Skip Barber Racing School, Jaguar Performance Driving Academy and the Bondurant Racing School.
Lewinski served as a guest lecturer at the University of Notre Dame and Marquette University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Communication Arts from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a B.A. in Journalism from Marquette. He completed his study of English Literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK.