David Shaftel is a freelance journalist living in New York City. He has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times Weekend, Saveur, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Smithsonian Air & Space, Monocle, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Village Voice. In 2004, he was a graduate of The Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and an Overseas Press Club Scholar. He has lived and worked in Mumbai, London, Trinidad, Louisiana and Cambodia. He is the founding editor of Racquet, a tennis magazine launching in Summer 2016.