Karl Grossman

He is program host and writer of TV documentaries produced, as is "Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman," by EnviroVideo including the award-winning Chernobyl: A Million Casualties, Three Mile Island Revisited, Nukes in Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens, "Star Wars Returns" and The Push to Revive Nuclear Power.

He was chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV on Long Island. He was a nightly news anchor at WSNL-TV on Long Island and hosted "Long Island World" on WLIW, Long Island's PBS station.

In addition to his nationally aired "Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman," starting in 2019 he began hosting a local environmental TV program, "Environment Long Island," produced at LTV.

He is a regular contributor to Internet sites including CounterPunch, OpEdNews, Enformable and NationofChange.

His weekly Long Island column has run for 50 years. It appears in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express, The Shelter Island Reporter, South Shore Press, "Community Journal" and in other Long Island newspapers and on news websites on Long Island including Smithtown Matters and RiverheadLOCAL. Earlier, it ran in the daily Long Island Press before that newspaper ceased publication.

Grossman writes a blog for The Times of Israel.

He writes for the Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, Long Island Jewish World and The Jewish Tribune.

Grossman was an investigative reporter as well as a columnist for the daily Long Island Press, a major newspaper serving metropolitan New York. With the demise of the paper in 1977, he continued to do investigative journalism in books, magazines and newspapers, on radio and TV and, in recent years, on the Internet.

He has done commentary on WRCN-FM and WLIU radio stations on Long Island and reported for WBAI radio in New York City.

Books he was authored include: Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power; The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet; Power Crazy: Is LILCO Turning Shoreham into America's Chernobyl?; The Poison Conspiracy; and Weapons in Space.

He was the principal founder in 1974 and first president of the Press Club of Long Island.

He is a member of the board of Beyond Nuclear, based in Takoma Park, Maryland, which works to eliminate nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He is a member of the board (secretary) of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), headquartered in New York City. He is a member of the board of the Suffolk County Community College-based Center for Diversity and Human Understanding featuring the Holocaust Collection. For 20 years, he was a member of the Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution and Peace of the United Nations and the International Association of University Presidents, based at the United Nations.

At the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury he has taught courses including: Investigative Reporting; Environmental Journalism; Politics of Media; Introduction to Journalism; TV and Radio Journalism; and TV Documentary: Theories and Techniques. He also supervises an Internship in Journalism and Media program placing students at media throughout the metropolitan New York Area. He has been a professor at SUNY/College at Old Westbury for 40 years.

He was honored in 2003 at the State University of New York "Chancellor's Recognition Dinner Honoring Research and Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences."

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