About Buzz Beeler

Portrait of Charles Buzz Beeler

Charles “Buzz” Beeler is a writer, producer, and journalist in Baltimore. He spent 39 years as a police officer, then moved into full-time storytelling for newspapers, video, and the web.

Newspaper and magazine work

His print credits center on Baltimore and national crime reporting. At the Baltimore Sun, including the Evening Sun and Sun Magazine, he worked as a freelance writer alongside Pulitzer winner Stephen Hunter. At the former Hearst paper Baltimore News American, his crime column ran on the same page as Andy Rooney’s column, a pairing that reflected the range of voices readers expected from a big-city daily.

Assignments often meant translating court filings, incident reports, and precinct notes into stories readers could follow without insider jargon. That habit of plain-language explanation carried over when he began editing homepages and long-form posts instead of only chasing daily deadlines.

  • Freelance reporting and features for the Baltimore Sun family of publications
  • Crime and news columns for the Baltimore News American

Film, video, and public safety

Buzz wrote the screenplay for the Hollywood comedy Misfit Patrol. Off the lot, he wrote, produced, and directed traffic safety programs used in driver education. My Child is Missing, narrated by John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted, earned award recognition for its script. Wheels of Death was introduced by then Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and stayed in classroom rotation for years.

Those productions mixed reenactments, statistics, and direct warnings aimed at teen drivers and their parents. The goal was always practical, whether the topic was abduction response or defensive driving on narrow city streets.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police later honored his traffic-safety work in a national competition among police agencies, a nod to how agencies shared training media in the field.

Publisher of The Baltimore Post

Buzz belongs to the AFL-CIO Writers Union and now publishes The Baltimore Post, a conservative online paper that rounds up local, national, sports, and entertainment news, including feeds from other Baltimore-area outlets. The site is built to be a single starting point for readers who want the daily mix without hunting across dozens of bookmarks.

Editorial choices still reflect his police-years instinct for sourcing, context, and follow-up questions, even when the byline belongs to a wire desk hundreds of miles away.