While writing The Murder Room, Mike and his wife Teresa Banik Capuzzo and their three dogs moved to Wellsboro, PA (pop. 3,000), where they started a free magazine, Mountain Home, that quickly grew from 0 to 100,000 readers. With a staff never larger than one full-time editorial person and small-town writers and eccentrics including a pastor, professor, yoga guru, fisherman, a woman in her mid-90s, and a suicidal hunter, Mountain Home has surpassed all newspapers in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York in readership, while winning two dozen prestigious state journalism awards against Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers.

Mike’s national television and radio appearances include the NBC Today Show, CBS Evening News, Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor, multiple appearances on CNN, NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” “Weekend Edition,” “The Diane Rehm Show,” and “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” and “The Howard Stern Show.”