George Chidi George Chidi is a 40-something ne’er-do-well refugee from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who, prior to stumbling upon the job of a lifetime with the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, earned an unmarketable MBA from Georgia Tech. He also holds a journalism degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which he has not yet chosen to pawn at Manuel’s Tavern to cover his tab. Chidi has contributed to Creative Loafing, Atlanta Magazine, The Guardian, VICE, Computerworld, The Bitter Southerner, CNN.com and other disreputable publications. His journalism career began as an enlisted U.S. Army news reporter covering infantry training in the Pacific with the 25th Infantry Division – a job made excellent by the fact that it is extraordinarily hard to fire a military journalist.