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Oyster Bay Resident Named Editor of Long Island Business News
Award-winning journalist has devoted four decades to covering news.
Long Island Business News Publisher and Vice President Scott Schoen has named veteran journalist Joe Dowd as editor of LIBN.
Dowd, of Oyster Bay, is a Long Island native now in his fourth decade as a newsman. His career has spanned the gamut of print and online journalism from the dying days of hot type to the 24/7 cyber news cycle.
“This is a great opportunity to cover the business news that is vital to all of Long Island,” Dowd said. “I look forward to reaching out to all my friends and contacts in Plainview and Nassau County for their insights on the economic community.”
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Dowd is well known as the editor of the Plainview Patch, which he launched in 2010 and produced hyper-local coverage of eastern Nassau County. He won two first-place Long Island Press Club awards during his tenure at Patch.
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Dowd began his career as a police and fire specialist in Rochester, N.Y. He has served as a sports editor, bureau chief and night city editor at the Middletown Times Herald-Record, where he led award-winning coverage of the post-9/11 New York City Fire Department. He is the son of Patricia and the late Battalion Chief Joseph D. Dowd, Jr. FDNY, who raised him in Plainview.
He has served as assistant managing editor at the Scranton Times-Tribune and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at several New York colleges. He is also a playwright and will see his first novel published this year.
A graduate of Canisius College in Buffalo, Dowd also holds a masters in journalism and public affairs from The American University, Wash., D.C.
He is the father of two daughters, Katherine 21, and Emily, 18.
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