Jon Craig
Reporter at Cantata Media
- Role
- Digital News Reporter at Cantata Media
- Location
- Bronx, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jon Craig
More than 40 years of news reporting & editing experience in Chicago, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, New Jersey & Washington, D.C. Career highlights- News reporter at DailyVoice.com (Cantata Media in NJ, PA, NY, CT, MA & MD)- Covered Metro-North train wreck that killed a motorist and five commuters, 2015 - Adjunct professor at SUNY Purchase and Rockland Community College: Mass Media, Craft of Memoir, Frontline Reporting, Leadership - Researched state investigative project for PublicIntegrity.org, 2011-12 - National MADD award for database analysis of repeat drunk drivers in Ohio, 2008- Henry F. Guggenheim Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2010- Sentenced to jail for protecting confidential sources (won on appeal), Broke 30th anniversary story about Kent State shootings — using FBI records, resurrecting theory a student informant triggered fatal National Guard volley, May Covered Ground Zero after Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks- Uncovered voting problems before & during presidential recount in Ohio, 2004- Witnessed botched Death Row execution of Romell Broom in 2009, one of more than a dozen I covered; Wrote about three inmates whose death sentences were commuted to life without parole- Won IRE, SDX and multiple national & state awards for series led by Erik Kriss investigating New York General Assembly. 1994- Guest lecturer at universities in NY & Ohio. Taught Syracuse high school journalism class- Co-authored IRE-award winning series on illegal restraints/beatings at juvenile detention centers. Gov. Mario Cuomo had NY inspector general confirm what Hart Seely and I found at Division for Youth & fired top directors, 1993- Survived Air Force Kool School training at North Pole, 1996- Covered Persian Gulf wars, including 2002 bomb missions from Turkey, and stateside Army/Air Guard training. 1991- Supervised overnight coverage of Pan Am Flight 103 after Libyan bomb killed 35 Syracuse University students over Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988- Covered aftermath of John F. Kennedy Jr.\'s fatal plane crash from Cape Cod, Covered Indian Point nuclear power plants.(Broke UFO, crack in vessel, major leak stories)- Covered Sing Sing prison - Greeted Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as Cornell Sun sports editor during daily\'s 100th anniversary dinner in May 1980.
Experience
Digital News Reporter
Sep 2014 — Present · New York, NY, US
Largest media source in NYC suburbs of Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties Also read in NJ, MA, MD, PA Expanded digital news coverage to Bergen and Passaic counties, NJ, in September 2015 Expanded NY news coverage to Dutchess and Rockland counties in November 2015, and later to Orange County. Additional expansions included special sections, 2019
Education
Cornell University
B.A., English literature, 3.1 GPA
1976 — 1980
Pleasantville High School
92 Average
1972 — 1976
Northwestern University
M.S.J., summa cum laude, Medill School of Journalism, 3.9 GPA
1980 — 1981
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