Tim Cavanaugh is an American journalist and screenwriter based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Cavanaugh was born and raised in Margate City, New Jersey[1] and attended Atlantic City High School.
His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Beirut Daily Star, San Francisco Magazine, Mother Jones, Agence France-Presse, Wired, Newsday, Salon, Orange County Register, The Rake magazine, and other publications.
His satirical 2002 article mocking weblogs, "Let Slip the Blogs of War" (an update of an earlier article in Suck), infuriated many bloggers and was included in Perseus Publishing's anthology We've Got Blog.
[3] Cavanaugh wrote the screenplay for Home Run Showdown,[4] a 2012 direct-to-video family baseball movie featuring Matthew Lillard, Dean Cain and Annabeth Gish.