A graduate of Ohio University, he has been a business columnist and business reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer for more than a decade, where he has covered numerous beats including federal courts, investigative reporter, feature writing, neighborhood columns and urban development. Widely published, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today and many other American print and Web publications. He is the author of The Success Effect: Uncommon Conversations with America’s Business Trailblazers and co-author of Road Dog, a true-crime thriller about serial killer Glen Rogers of Hamilton, Ohio. A Cincinnati resident, Eckberg currently has several other projects underway, including The Mud Daddy Chronicles, a recipe book and fishing memoir of 25 years of fishing trips, and Pot of Gold, a best-practices business book