About

I first entered the news business at 12 as a paperboy, lugging 54 copies of Newsday in a milk carton tied to the handle bars of my silver Schwinn.

Turns out I was one of the area’s last. Soon after, the jobs were handed over to station wagon-driving subcontractors.

As of March 2010, things turned full circle. I returned to Newsday as the online editor for local news, handling all things hyperlocal.

Previously, I was executive producer of News 12 Interactive, running the Web and interactive TV operations of the seven News 12 cable stations in the tri-state area.

I was editor of Long Island Business News, where I had also gotten my first real start as a reporter, for three years.

In between, I was an Internet reporter for Marketwatch.com, and I have freelanced for a bunch of publications, including the New York Post.

Outside the office, I’m an active member of the Society of Professional Journalists, currently serving as an SPJ Chapter Doctor and co-chairing the SPJ Region 1 Spring Conference, which is set for March 23-24 at Stony Brook University.

I served 13 years on the Press Club of Long Island board, leading the club as its president from 2002-2005.

From 2004-2006, I was SPJ Region 1 Director, winning Regional Director of the Year in 2006.

I’m currently on the board of the Martin Buskin Committee for Campus Journalism at Stony Brook, and I’m a member of the Energeia Partnership, a regional stewardship group.

Plus, I was in a Syfy reality show, “Mary Knows Best,” which starred my mother, psychic-intuitive MaryRose Occhino. My brother, Christopher Corry, sister, Jacqueline Sullivan and uncle, Charles Saliba, were part of the team, as well.