Jon Craig

Background

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.