Karl Grossman

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Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York 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.

Contents 1 Media 2 Awards 3 Academic work 4 Bibliography 4.1 Books 4.2 Articles

[edit] Media

He is a 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.

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.

[edit] Awards

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, Press Club of Long Island, 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.

[edit] Academic work

At the State University of New York 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.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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)

[edit] Articles

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!.