I first entered the news business as a 12-year-old entrepreneur. It was my first job, 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 paperboys. 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 and products, 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.
Before that, I was editor of Long Island Business News, where I had also gotten my first real start as a reporter.
In between, I was an Internet reporter for Marketwatch.com, and I have freelanced for a bunch of publications, including the New York Post and Newsday.
Outside the office, I’m on the board of the Press Club of Long Island and the Martin Buskin Committee for Campus Journalism at Stony Brook, and I’m a member of the Energeia Partnership, a group committed to spur needed change on Long Island.
This site is meant to provide a running update of work stuff and other things I find interesting, usually related to the media, but not necessarily.
