Tom Davis (journalist)

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Tom Davis (born 1967) is an award-winning journalist who is the author of “Coping,”[1] one of the nation’s only mental health newspaper columns, which is published in The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. He also teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, and a course on mental health issues in the media at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004.[1]. He also writes Coping with Life, a blog that deals with life, family and mental health issues.

Tom Davis was named "Citizen of the Year" by the New Jersey Psychiatric Association in 2007. In 2003, he won a first-place award in the New Jersey Press Association's annual Better Newspaper Contest.[2] It was his fourth such honor. In 1990, he was awarded the NJPA's Robert P. Kelly award, which is the state's rookie-of-the-year prize for young journalists.[3]

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  1. ^ The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism 2004-2005. Accessed October 17, 2007.
  2. ^ Better Newspaper Contest - 2002 Editorial Results for Dailies, New Jersey Press Association. Accessed October 17, 2007.
  3. ^ Davis Named 2004 North Jersey Media Group Journalist in Residence, Rutgers University press release dated December 11, 2003. Accessed October 17, 2007.

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