TONY BRENNA

Tony is a veteran journalist who has worked for a broad spectrum of publications in both the UK, his native land, and the US, his adopted home.

He previously published a biography of one of the stars of the Dallas television series (Victoria Principal, St. Martin’s Press, 1989).

He worked as editor and reporter for local weeklies in Surrey (England) and on London’s Fleet Street where he worked as a reporter on national daily and Sunday papers. He rose through the ranks from reporter to executive editor during his time at World’s Press News, the trade journal of the British press. As Deputy Editor of Creel, the UK’s first full color monthly angling magazine, he commissioned and edited articles, as well as handling layout.

In New York, he covered the United Nations and US national news for The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the BBC World Service as an on-air correspondent. His time there included reporting for the New York Herald Tribune and becoming Associate Editor at Editor & Publisher, the trade journal of the American press, interviewing senior editorial management about the newspaper business.

Recruited by the National Enquirer, he was based at the paper’s Florida headquarters where he became a senior reporter, roving editor, and Hollywood correspondent. He moved to Los Angeles where he continued to work for the Enquirer. Later, he was West Coast correspondent for the Daily Mail. He’s contributed news and features to newspapers and magazines in Germany (Gong, Bild), Brazil (O Estado de Sao Paulo), Australia (Woman’s Day), the UK (Sun, News of the World, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror), and the US (Star, Globe, Life & Style).

As a weekly columnist, he wrote about Madison Avenue for Britain’s Advertiser’s Weekly and celebrity news for New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, where he also contributed features. With a Canadian psychic, Tony created the world’s first “psychic gossip” column that appeared for ten years in the Sunday sections of the Toronto Sun, London Free Press, Ottawa Sun, and others in the Sun group.

While living in LA, Tony appeared on shows such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition. Recently, he was prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated CNN documentary “Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer” (2019).

He now lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, writer Elena M. Rodriguez.

ELENA M RODRIGUEZ

Elena has worked as a writer and editor for the past 40 years, bringing to that career a variety of experience in the corporate world.

She is author of the first full-length biography of actor Dennis Hopper – Dennis Hopper: A Madness to His Method (St. Martin’s Press 1989). She worked for in-house publications of former Big 8 public accounting firm Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte). She was the English-language historian of Tohmatsu, one of Japan’s largest public accounting firms and member firm of Deloitte. In that capacity she wrote numerous books documenting the history of Deloitte Tohmatsu in Japan and the firm’s activities with its worldwide partners in the United States, Europe, Singapore, Canada, and Mexico.

She published articles in Women’s World, and Celebrity Plus magazines. She was a contributing editor to Hispanic Intelligence newsletter.

These days she edits the work of select clients (including that of her husband Tony Brenna). Her interest in history has led her to branch out into historical fiction. She is currently writing a novel set during the American Civil War.