Who writes this stuff?
In full disclosure, I’d like to introduce myself, give you a little background and provide some context for my reporting that appears here.
My name is Joe Filippazzo, 25, and I’m currently working on my masters degree at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in Manhattan with a concentration in print media urban reporting. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, I now spend most of my time cloistered in the newsroom at 230 W. 41st or out covering my beat in Brooklyn community district 15.
I have a BS in Physics from Stony Brook University (2005) where I was also the editor of an alternative fortnightly called The Stony Brook Press. I’m also the CEO of The Suffolk Standard Publishing Corporation (inc. 2005) which briefly published a Brookhaven Town news and features monthly in Suffolk County.
I’m left-of-center but always skeptical and, like most, I have a laundry list of hyphenated classifications I choose to associate myself with. I’m anti-consolidation, pro-choice, pseudo-populist, quasi-capitalist, and a proud-as-hell bright. Due to my age, I haven’t had the opportunity to participate in a great many elections but I have traditionally voted Democrat, though I never seem to pick the winners in the primaries.
Currently, I work on the webstaff of the New York City News Service and I do editing and layout temp work for the daily metro AM New York. I am an intern at the Courier-Life Bay News in Brooklyn and I freelance for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, among others.
Hopefully, I am also freelancing for you. If you’d like to reprint any of my work, just ask!
joseph.filippazzo@journalism.cuny.edu
