 In the 1990s, Wood regularly contributed to "The New York Times" from Nashville and other locations (including Romania, where he lectured at universities in 1997), and to "The Wall Street Journal".He was the founding editor of "Bank Director" magazine and served as editor and publisher of "Nashville Life" and "Business Nashville" magazines.He was a business reporter and interim business editor at "The Tennessean" in the early 1990s.