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I adore breaking news, excel at finding the sources to do so and spotting holes in what's presented -- hopefully improving the outcome.
It’s wonderful working with such a talented group excelling in so many areas, including video and graphics. No newcomers to SEO.
My hope is my public service aims, starting with my Reuters Holocaust restitution series, will appeal to you.
Researching, spotting a new angle -- and then writing as simply as possible to truly explain complex problems, from global warming to COVID-19, are some of my strong suits.
Curiosity always serves me well.
For Reuters, where I worked most of my career, I covered many financial markets; New York, NYC and states from Maine to Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, reporting on all manner of policies, legislation and budgets.
Breaking news with New York City's budgets was one strength.
Covering 9/11 -- from the attack through the reconstruction -- later led me to report for Newsday about flawed safety gear provided often immigrant asbestos workers.
For Reuters TV, I interviewed a few dozen governors, treasurers, mayors and the like; wrote companion stories; gave live reports.
I've co-moderated Crain's Business Breakfast panels; spoken on journalism panels.
A Loyola Law School public service fellowship was wonderful.
Recently I was on "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace at 7 minutes, 29, 36, 39, 42, for example.
https://omny.fm/shows/crime-stories-with-nancy-grace/loving-dad-of-3-at-sons-college-family-weekend-sho.
At Reuters, I regularly led competitors covering precious metals, debt, equities and energy -- a highlight was the UN-Iraq oil-for-food talks, a lengthy assignment.
My multi-year Holocaust series began when NYC axed a Swiss bank from a bond sale.
Two days later that was a front page New York Times story; that wasn't the first; I've had to match them too.
Local, national, such as the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and global media often ran my stories outlining talks between advocates, governments, museums, rail roads, banks and insurers.
I also put Reuters first with the U.S. EPA's demand NYC cleanse its water with a new plant the city said cost too much.
That was a bit of a merry-go-round.
A recent Newsday story about stiffer rules for wastewater plants benefited from my in-depth experience reporting on this problem.
So did a story on the curtailed lives of the oysters planted in New York Harbor's restoration programs.
Previous stints: Securities Week, Physicians Financial News, the Research Institute of America, The Wall Street Transcript.
Thank you for considering me, Joan
Animal advocates agree all pets - local or not - deserve forever homes. But some say taking in pets from out of state or overseas can overburden municipal shelters and prevent less-desirable breeds, older animals and ones who are ailing or ill-trained from being adopted.
New varieties of long and lush false eyelashes offer Hollywood glamour - just in time for a post-holiday pick-me-up - yet ophthalmologists increasingly see problems with them. Lash extensions, often made from light synthetic or natural materials, are glued onto individual eyelashes - and can stay in place for four to six weeks.
U.S. military held Deutsche Bank responsible for murdering by starvation slave labourers, according to an excerpt of a repot obtained by Reuters U.S. bank. Deutsche Bank was as responsible as what was then its industrial affiliate, Mannesmann Roehrenwerke, Germany's foremost producer of steel tubes, for abusing workers, according to an excerpt of the report obtained by Reuters. Citing field reports from Mannesmann's own managers, the U.S. military said: "T
The era of cooking with gas-burning flames may be waning, as research shows emissions from these appliances increase the risks of childhood asthma and overheating the planet. One month after researchers said 12.7% of "current childhood asthma in the United States is attributable to gas stove use," Gov.
Suffolk County, with less than 10% of the state's farmland, poured around three times more insect-killing chemicals onto lawns, golf courses, crops and turf farms in 2021 than any one of upstate's four biggest farming counties, according to state officials.
Seventy years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, some Jewish leaders say the world's largest Holocaust compensation agency is in urgent need of sweeping reforms -- from new leadership to a sharper focus on aiding a dwindling number of survivors.
Long Island's clement winter may have jump-started the arrival of native and foreign critters that fly, crawl or bite as insects from the South are finding the warmth in the North to their liking. "There is evidence that the ranges of some insects have shifted north with the warmer climate," Matthew Schlesinger, chief zoologist of the New York Natural Heritage Program, wrote by email.
The peak of the North Atlantic hurricane season has come and gone as temperatures cool, but at least one study shows conditions in the Caribbean "favor an active end" to the season, which ends Nov. 30.
Missing stories: museums I found with Nazi-looted art; ones with Paul Volcker, Stuart Eizenstat, et al; many on slave labor, including the Roma, lots more on insurers, government negotiations, etc. Please forgive a few duplications. Thank you.
Imagine what a dinosaur could do with a neck almost 50 feet long - eight times longer than a giraffe's. The latest estimate of the neck length of a late Jurassic period dinosaur found in China - a Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum - is nearly 20 feet longer than previous estimates for members of the sauropod family, according to Stony Brook University paleontologist Andrew J.
Browning lawns may give way to much browner leaves this autumn, thanks to Long Island's still severe drought. But September could prove a catchup month, with enough rain to ease conditions, experts said.
A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will display written quotations drawn from “martyrdom” videos
This winter's mild weather may be welcome for some, but it has Long Island farmers, vintners and gardeners questioning how their crops and plants will fare come this spring. For example, will buds and flowers - plus the pollinating bees they need - both appear around a month early?
Fearless enough to become a teen jockey, wise enough to become a much-loved manager, imaginative enough to invent a device to keep collators' fingers safe, and skilled enough to open a siding business. To that partial list of Frank Sigismondi's accomplishments, add his key role in building Newsday's original collating department, a passion for restoring classic American cars and his devotion to his children and grandchildren.
NYC cut Union Bank of Switzerland from a letter of credit syndicate to show it disapproved how the bank handled Holocaust issues, including document shredding, a financial source said Wednesday.
A young whale anchored to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island's Jones Beach by a ton or more of fishing gear finally was freed after four days of arduous work by rescuers who refused to quit - and it "surged forward," which is a hopeful sign, one of them said Saturday.
Too much rain and still way too much nitrogen were the twin causes of this summer's overly abundant algae blooms and critically low-oxygen dead zones in Long Island's fresh and saltwater bodies, an annual report said Thursday.
Job-hunting teens face the third bleak summer in a row, competing with adults, as gov't programs shrink
A yet-to-be named young humpback whale rescued in 2020 from fishing gear off Jones Beach State Park, has returned to New York waters, apparently joining an increasing number of his juvenile peers - and surprising scientists. Over four days in 2020, rescuers worked to free the humpback from a tangle of two-tons of gear mooring him to the sea bottom.
Sorry, Long Islanders: July could be even muggier than June, when the humidity was almost double the record set in 2005. The first half of July "has continued the sultry summer conditions that June introduced," said Dominic Ramunni, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Upton.
While many U.S. cities worry that their economies are deteriorating to the level of the 1930s Great Depression, New York City fears reliving a more recent decade that features strongly in city lore.
The shortage of vets has been exacerbated in recent years by the increase in remote work, which has allowed countless more pet lovers to bring cats and dogs home.
New York State and its lifeguards are tussling over anti-virus safeguards ahead of the opening of Long Island beaches Friday. Like other first responders, lifeguards will put themselves at risk when rescuing distressed swimmers or boaters, public health experts say, as even those with the coronavirus who are asymptomatic can infect others.
If you know whether chiconomic and TALF’d are positive or negative terms and can use them in a sentence, you are au courant with just a few of the dozens of words born of the financial crisis.
Simply tossing a half-eaten apple out of a car window might spread COVID-19 to white-tailed deer on Long Island, scientists say. Those deer may then become a virus reservoir, allowing the coronavirus to spring forth again, possibly after mutating into new variants that could be at best perplexing or at worst, more deadly, according to experts.
New York State's nursing homes cannot reject newly released hospital patients solely because they tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a new state directive says. The order raised concern in an industry whose elderly and frail residents have the lowest survival rate for the disease.
Major banks re making it harder for clients to sell what was considered one of the safest alternatives to cash -- so-called variable-rate demand notes -- sources familiar with industry practices say.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to crack down on human trafficking, submitted to the state Legislature as part of his Women's Equality Act, comes as New York lags behind other states in attacking the problem. Experts say thousands of people are trafficked every year in New York -- as sex slaves or forced farm workers.
Hospital cleaning technicians can sometimes see the absolute worst the novel coronavirus inflicts, doing an indispensable job that is now more perilous than ever. "Working in a hospital, you either care about people" or you find something else to do, said Doran Davis, 40, of Freeport, who sterilizes rooms of virus-stricken patients at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside.
Picture a washing machine. Now imagine nearly 50 million of them lining the 6.5-mile strip of white sand at Wantagh's Jones Beach State Park, located just 35 miles east of Manhattan on a barrier island in the Great South Bay claimed by both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Henry J.
When William Canary's daughter was born in 1998 her father's former boss immediately wrote her a note. George H.W. Bush welcomed the baby to this "big wonderful world," saying, "I want to be your friend." "Now, I'm a happy, kind of private guy. But I used to be president - No kidding!"
An underwater diver is revealing his accidental discovery of historic significance: He found the wreck of the sole Thunderbolt prototype, one of World War II's fiercest warplanes, in the Long Island Sound. The Aug. 5, 1942, accident report for the XP-47B, declassified under a broader 2009 executive order, says the plane crashed off Eatons Neck shortly after taking off from Republic Airport.
It has been one of golf's enduring mysteries: What is happening in that 3-pound gray organ between the ears just before a putt goes rogue instead of sinking smoothly, fatefully into a hole?