Deckhand

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About me

Industry Education
Occupation Journalism Professor
Location Long Island, New York, United States
Introduction spent more than 35 years as a newspaperman---obsolete term!, most of them at Newsday on Long Island. Now teach journalism at Hofstra University. Trying like everyone else to figure out what the newspaper of the future will be. It probably won't be in print.
Interests Sailing, kayaking, journalism, reading, history, maritime and military history, classical music, the arts, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin
Favorite Music Bach unaccompanied suites for cello; Beethoven late quartets; any Beatles; Dylan; A Love Supreme; Glass; Reich. Beyond that, what is the best mountain?
Favorite Books Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, The Worm Ouroboros, Moby Dick, Huck Finn, A Soldier of the Great War