Joye Brown

Bio

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006 when she won the Long Island Press Club columnist award.

She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer.

She has been a part of several award-winning efforts, including a 1984 Pulitzer Prize local reporting team. In 2000, she won awards from the Deadline Club, the National Headliner Awards , the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the Society of Silurians for editorial writing.

Before coming to Newsday, Brown was a reporter for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N. C., and the Chicago Tribune.

Brown, a native of Washington, D. C., has a bachelor’s in journalism from George Washington University. She lives in Huntington with her husband, Mark, and two children, Catherine and Joshua.