I have fond memories of Sunday mornings as a teenager enjoying New York Newsday along with bacon, egg and cheese on a poppy seed roll—extra crispy bacon, please.
The paper’s vivid writing and fearless reporting made it a great read. Its “Truth, Justice and the Comics” slogan definitely captured its appeal. And when my parents, my little brother and I would travel from our home in Brooklyn to Long Island’s beaches, we’d always pick up Newsday’s Long Island edition.
As a parent, I consider it a privilege to keep Long Islanders up-todate on topics such as student debt relief and artificial intelligence’s impact on higher ed...
I didn’t figure out until after college what my calling would be. I majored in English literature at Swarthmore College, where I mainly focused on reading stories, not writing them. But when I gave journalism a try, I was hooked.
After a few years working as a reporter and editor, I earned a master’s degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on a Lorana Sullivan Memorial Fellowship. When I eventually found my way back to Long Island, I felt right at home.
On Newsday’s business desk, my first beat was real estate, collaborating with colleagues to cover everything from the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 to the zombie home epidemic after the foreclosure crisis. I had the good fortune to serve on the team that produced Newsday’s award-winning Long Island Divided series on housing discrimination in the home sales market. Later I wrote about health care and then joined the investigations team.
Now I cover education, with a focus on local colleges and universities. As a parent, I consider it a privilege to keep Long Islanders up-to-date on topics such as student debt relief and artificial intelligence’s impact on higher ed, as well as unusual programs like a substance abuse recovery and truck driving training program run by a former NBA All-Star.
I don’t indulge in weekly bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches anymore. But I still get to enjoy Newsday — and it’s a thrill to know that the stories I read and the broadcast pieces I watch on NewsdayTV were written, edited and produced by my own colleagues and friends.
