Roy Crawford

I'm Roy M. Crawford, a Washington-based journalist with more than five years of experience across local news publishing, covering national and political affairs, sports journalism, entertainment reporting, celebrity news and profiles, technology, international affairs, automotive, gaming, and trending cultural stories. Working inside local newsrooms teaches you to cover what the day puts in front of you, and that background is what shaped the editorial range Up Front Journal operates across. I founded this publication in May 2026 with a team of editors and researchers behind me, built around one standard: every story published here, whether it runs in sports, celebrity coverage, world news, entertainment, or breaking national reporting, goes through the same editorial process. This is my publication, and the reporting standards on this site are the ones I built my career on.

Who Is Lauren Chandiram? Rob James-Collier’s Private Partner

Lauren Chandiram is best known as the partner of British actor Rob James-Collier, who played Liam Connor in Coronation Street and Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey. Before he became famous she ran...

Who Is Nashormeh Lindo? Artist and Wife of Delroy Lindo

An artist and educator who became the first African American woman to chair the California Arts Council, with a career in American art reaching back to the 1970s and a long marriage...

What Larry Silverstein and Gigi Hadid Have in Common

Larry Silverstein became a billionaire rebuilding the World Trade Center. Gigi Hadid's father, Mohamed Hadid, made his fortune building mansions in Los Angeles before a single house pushed him into bankruptcy. Real...

Who Is Rick Bynes? The Real Story of Amanda Bynes’ Father

Rick Bynes spent his working life as a dentist in Thousand Oaks, California. He also did stand-up on the side, and sometime in the early 1990s he mailed a joke to The...

Where Is Alexa Ammon Now? Ted Ammon’s Daughter Today

The murder of Ted Ammon in his East Hampton home in 2001 has been retold in books, documentaries, and true crime series for more than twenty years. His daughter usually gets a...

Who Is Eve Chilton? Harvey Weinstein’s First Wife, Explained

Eve Chilton spent seventeen years married to Harvey Weinstein. She walked away in December 2004, when he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, and she has never explained why....

Who Is Santtu Seppälä? Sarah Rafferty’s Husband and Investor

Known to most as the husband of Suits actress Sarah Rafferty, the Finnish American investor has spent thirty years in finance and now backs a company trying to make shipping containers fold...

Who Is Carlos Alman? The Real Story of Cardi B’s Father

A false rumor about Cardi B's father spread across social media in January 2026, claiming he had been arrested years earlier for attempted rape. None of it was true. The rapper said...

Roy Crawford

I'm Roy M. Crawford, a Washington-based journalist with more than five years of experience across local news publishing, covering national and political affairs, sports journalism, entertainment reporting, celebrity news and profiles, technology, international affairs, automotive, gaming, and trending cultural stories. Working inside local newsrooms teaches you to cover what the day puts in front of you, and that background is what shaped the editorial range Up Front Journal operates across. I founded this publication in May 2026 with a team of editors and researchers behind me, built around one standard: every story published here, whether it runs in sports, celebrity coverage, world news, entertainment, or breaking national reporting, goes through the same editorial process. This is my publication, and the reporting standards on this site are the ones I built my career on.