Karl Grossman
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Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury and coordinator of the Media & Communications Major at the college.
For 40 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media. He is the host of the nationally syndicated television program Enviro Close-Up, the narrator and host of award-winning TV documentaries on environmental and energy issues, and author of six books.
His books include Power Crazy, The Poison Conspiracy, The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet and Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power.
Grossman has also written many magazine and newspaper articles on environmental and energy issues appearing in publications including The New York Times, 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 and Extra! He is a program host and writer of TV documentaries produced by New York-based EnviroVideo (www.envirovideo.com) 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. Grossman was an investigative reporter for the Long Island Press, a major daily newspaper serving metropolitan New York, and has continued investigative journalism in books, magazines and newspapers and on radio and TV. He has given presentations at colleges and universities across the United States and around the world.
Awards he has received for investigative reporting include the George Polk, James Aronson and John Peter Zenger Awards. He also has received citations from the New York Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists 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. At the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, he teaches courses in print and electronic journalism 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.
