Bill Beuttler

Author / Journalist / Professor / Cocktail Connoisseur

Bill Beuttler is a journalist and the author of Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Lever Press, 2019). From fall 2020 to fall 2026, he directed the graduate program in Publishing and Writing at Emerson College, where he is an associate professor. He has worked as an editor and writer for DownBeat, Men’s Journal, and Boston Magazine, among other publications, and covered jazz for the Boston Globe for more than two decades. Beuttler began his career at the legendary City News Bureau of Chicago and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is now writing a biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy.