Karl Grossman
Encyclopedia
Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism
at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 45 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media. He is the host of the nationally aired television program "Enviro Close-Up", the narrator and host of award-winning TV documentaries on environmental and energy issues, the author of six books and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper and Internet articles.
He is chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV on Long Island.
He is a contributor to websites including CounterPunch, OpEd News and The Huffington Post.
His weekly column appears in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express, The Shelter Island Reporter, South Shore Press and other newspapers on Long Island.
Grossman was an investigative reporter as well as columnist for the Long Island Press
, a major daily newspaper serving metropolitan New York and, with the demise of the Press in 1977, continued investigative journalism in books, magazines and newspapers, on radio and TV and in recent years also on the Internet.
He has given presentations at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad and before other venues including at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the British Parliament.
Awards he has received for investigative reporting include the George Polk, Generoso Pope, James Aronson and John Peter Zenger Awards. He also has received citations from the New York Press Association, Press Club of Long Island, Society of Professional Journalists, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, New York Civil Liberties Union, Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, Citizens Energy Council and Friends of the Earth
. His TV documentaries have received Gold and Silver Awards at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and other honors. His journalism has been repeatedly cited by Project Censored
, the media initiative at Sonoma State University, as involving the most “under-reported” issues.
, USA Today
, The Village Voice
, The Boston Globe
, The Christian Science Monitor
, Newsday
, The Philadelphia Inquirer
, The Miami Herald
, The Globe and Mail
, The Ecologist
, Earth Island Journal, E: The Environmental Magazine, The Crisis
, The Nation
, The Progressive
, The Baltimore Sun
, The Plain Dealer. The Orlando Sentinel, Columbia Journalism Review
, Liberal Opinion Week, Science Communication
. The Globe and Mail
, Z Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian
, CovertAction Quarterly
, The Miami Herald
, Space News, and Extra!
.
He also regularly contributes articles to Internet sites including: CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Truthout and OpEd News.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 45 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media. He is the host of the nationally aired television program "Enviro Close-Up", the narrator and host of award-winning TV documentaries on environmental and energy issues, the author of six books and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper and Internet articles.
Media
He is program host and writer of TV documentaries produced by New York-based EnviroVideo including the award-winning "Three Mile Island Revisited", "Nukes in Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens" and "The Push to Revive Nuclear Power".He is chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV on Long Island.
He is a contributor to websites including CounterPunch, OpEd News and The Huffington Post.
His weekly column appears in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express, The Shelter Island Reporter, South Shore Press and other newspapers on Long Island.
Grossman was an investigative reporter as well as columnist for the Long Island Press
Long Island Press
The Long Island Press is a free newsweekly serving Long Island with extensive coverage of arts and entertainment, sports, and alternative political viewpoints. The newspaper started in 2003 after its parent company, Morey Publishing, bought The Long Island Ear, which was a free bi-monthly...
, a major daily newspaper serving metropolitan New York and, with the demise of the Press in 1977, continued investigative journalism in books, magazines and newspapers, on radio and TV and in recent years also on the Internet.
He has given presentations at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad and before other venues including at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the British Parliament.
Awards he has received for investigative reporting include the George Polk, Generoso Pope, James Aronson and John Peter Zenger Awards. He also has received citations from the New York Press Association, Press Club of Long Island, Society of Professional Journalists, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, New York Civil Liberties Union, Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, Citizens Energy Council and Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns...
. His TV documentaries have received Gold and Silver Awards at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and other honors. His journalism has been repeatedly cited by Project Censored
Project Censored
Project Censored is a non-profit, media criticism and investigative journalism project within the Sonoma State University Foundation. It is managed through the School of Social Sciences at the university....
, the media initiative at Sonoma State University, as involving the most “under-reported” issues.
Academic work
At the State University of New York College at Old Westbury he has taught courses including: Investigative Reporting; Politics of Media; Introduction to Journalism; TV and Radio Journalism; TV Documentary: Theories and Techniques; and Environmental Journalism. He also runs a journalism internship program placing students at media throughout metropolitan New York.Books
- Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (1980)
- The Poison Conspiracy (1982)
- Nicaragua: America's New Vietnam? (1984)
- Power Crazy:Is LILCO Turning Shoreham Into America's Chernobyl? (1986)
- The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet (1997)
- Weapons in Space (2001)
Articles
Grossman's articles have appeared in many magazines and newspapers including: The New York TimesThe New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
, The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper published daily online, Monday to Friday, and weekly in print. It was started in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As of 2009, the print circulation was 67,703.The CSM is a newspaper that covers...
, Newsday
Newsday
Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
, The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...
, The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
, The Ecologist
The Ecologist
The Ecologist is a British environmental publication founded in 1970 by Edward Goldsmith. It addresses a wide range of environmental subjects and promotes an ecological systems thinking approach through its news stories, investigations and opinion articles. The Ecologist encourages its readers to...
, Earth Island Journal, E: The Environmental Magazine, The Crisis
The Crisis
The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , and was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois , Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, W.S. Braithwaite, M. D. Maclean.The original title of the journal was...
, The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, The Progressive
The Progressive
The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective on some issues. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage...
, The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the U.S. state of Maryland’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries....
, The Plain Dealer. The Orlando Sentinel, Columbia Journalism Review
Columbia Journalism Review
The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....
, Liberal Opinion Week, Science Communication
Science communication
Science communication generally refers to public media aiming to talk about science with non-scientists. This often involves professional scientists but has evolved into a professional field in its own right...
. The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
, Z Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay Guardian
The San Francisco Bay Guardian is a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. The paper is owned mostly by its publisher, Bruce B...
, CovertAction Quarterly
CovertAction Quarterly
CovertAction Quarterly was an American publication focused on and critical of the US Central Intelligence Agency. It was founded by former CIA officer turned agency critic Philip Agee and others in 1978. It is most famous for its "Naming Names" column which published the names of undercover CIA...
, The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...
, Space News, and Extra!
Extra!
Extra! is a monthly magazine of media criticism published by the media watch group FAIR. First published in 1987, its first full-time editor was Martin A. Lee. Since 1990, it has been edited by Jim Naureckas...
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He also regularly contributes articles to Internet sites including: CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Truthout and OpEd News.
External links
- Money Is the Real Green Power Behind Nuclear: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Abolition - Prospects and Initiatives
- Cancer - The Number One Killer - And Its Environmental Causes
- Parallel Atomic Universes
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/opinion/nyregionopinions/11LIgrossman.html Target: Plum Island
- http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman02172010.html An Atomic Credibility Gap: Obama Goes Nuclear