Jeffrey L. Seglin

Who is Jeffrey L. Seglin?

Jeffrey L. Seglin is an American journalist, writer, and teacher. Seglin was born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and grew up in many cities in the northeastern U.S., Santiago, Chile, and Boonton, New Jersey where he attended Boonton High School.

Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a syndicated weekly column on general ethics that currently runs in newspapers in the United States and Canada. In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers who write to him at rightthing@comcast.net. The column was syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate from February 2004 through August 2010. In September 2010, Tribune Media Services began distributing "The Right Thing" column.

Seglin is the author of The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business. It was named as one of the "Best Business Books of 2003" by the Library Journal. It is a collection of the first four years of “The Right Thing,” which until January 2004 had been a monthly business ethics column he wrote for The Sunday New York Times Money and Business pages since 1998.