Karl Grossman


Karl Grossman is an author, TV program host and full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. For 29 years he has hosted the nationally-aired program "Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman." He is the author of six books.
He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Adelphi-Suffolk College in Sayville, N.Y. and received a Bachelor's Degree with a social science concentration from Empire State College of the State University of New York. He also is the recipient of a Master's Degree in media studies from the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Media

He is program host and writer of TV documentaries produced, as is "Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman," by 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 national "Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman," starting in 2019 he began hosting a local environmental TV program, "Environment Long Island," produced at LTV in Wainscott.
He is a regular contributor to Internet sites including CounterPunch, NationofChange and OpEdNews.
His weekly Long Island column has run for 51 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 Huntington Now. It began in 1969 at the daily Long Island Press. Since 2019, Grossman has also written a column that appears in the revived Long Island Press.
Grossman writes a blog for The Times of Israel.
He is a writer 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, and continued the Long Island column which he wrote at the Long Island Press in weekly newspapers on Long Island and now LI news websites.
He has done feature reporting and commentary on WRCN-FM and WLIU radio stations on Long Island and was Long Island correspondent 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 founder in 1974 and first president of the Press Club of Long Island.
He is a member of the board of directors of Beyond Nuclear, based in Takoma Park, Maryland, which works to eliminate nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He is a member of the board of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, headquartered in New York City. He is a member of the board of directors of the Suffolk County Community College-based Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding featuring the Holocaust Collection, and he was elected vice chair of its board in 2020. He is a member of the board of advisors of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. For 20 years, he was a member of the Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution and Peace sponsored by the United Nations and the International Association of University Presidents and based at the United Nations.

Academic work

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 that places students at media throughout the metropolitan New York Area. He has been a professor at SUNY/College at Old Westbury since 1978.
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."
Honors he has received for his journalism include the George Polk Award, John Peter Zenger Award, Leo Goodman Award, Joel R. Seldin Peace Award, Generoso Pope Award, James Aronson Award and Media Hero Award. He has been named Environmentalist of the Year by Sierra Club of Long Island. He was in the initial class inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame and been named “Journalist of the Year” by the Press Club of Long Island.

Books

Grossman's articles have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including: The New York Times, USA Today, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Globe and Mail, The Ecologist, Earth Island Journal, E: The Environmental Magazine, The Crisis, The Nation, The Progressive, The Baltimore Sun, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Orlando Sentinel, Columbia Journalism Review, Liberal Opinion Week, Science Communication, The Progressive Populist, Z Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, CovertAction Quarterly, The Jerusalem Post,The Miami Herald, Space News and Extra!.