The public has judged the news entries in the Fair Media Council’s annual Folio Awards. Now the tabulation to determine the winners is getting under way.
We thank this year’s incredible collection of community leaders and good people who represent the Long Island public and judge the news, a public service that truly impacts the community and works to keep Long Island informed.
THE PUBLIC HAS JUDGED.
Meet this year’s judges at the Folio Awards Luncheon on April 22 at the Crest Hollow Country Club:
- Bob Horvath, RAPP
- Bruce Lambert, The New York Times (retired)
- Charles Skop, Meyer Suozzi English & Klein, P.C.
- Charlie MacLeod, Sanna Mattson MacLeod
- Chris Wright, Protiviti
- David Chauvin, Zimmerman/Edelson, Inc.
- David Okorn, Long Island Community Foundation
- Ernest T. Bartol, Murphy, Bartol & O’Brien
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George Gorman, Jr., New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
- James Kinney, WeiserMazars LLP
- Janine Giorgenti, Giorgenti New York
- Jeffrey Morosoff, Hofstra University
- Jeffrey Reynolds, Family & Children’s Association
- Joe Calderone, South Nassau Communities Hospital
- Joseph Sellitto, Bradley & Parker
- John Durso, Long Island Federation of Labor
- Kathy Coley, Farmingdale State College
- Kevin Dahill, Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council/Suburban Health Care Alliance
- Kevin Kelly, BigBuzz Marketing Group
- Kim Kaiman, Town of North Hempstead Business & Tourism Development Corp.
- Marianne Garvin, Community Development Corporation of Long Island
- Melissa Connolly, Hofstra University
- Mike Dawidziak, Strategic-Planning.com
- Orlando Milian, Douglas Elliman
- Patricia Quinn, United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County
- Patrick Calabria, Farmingdale State College
- Patrick Macri, Millennium Communications
- Paul Focazio, New York Sea Grant
- Phil Rugile, egifter.com/Launchpad Huntington
- Ray Caliendo, Art-of-Form Architectural Services
- Richard Turan, Turan Family Foundation
- Rita Castagna, Castagna Realty
- Rob Salvatico, Jaral Properties
- Robert B. Catell, AERTC and NYS Smart Grid Consortium, Stony Brook University
- Roslyn Goldmacher, Long Island Development Corp.
- Terry Lynam, Northwell Health
The Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards gives the ultimate news critic — the public — the ability to judge the news and send a strong message back to newsrooms around the region on how well they are covering the community. This ‘green-light ethics’ program focuses on showing the news media what it’s doing well, by awarding well-crafted stories that tap the pulse of the public for relevance, importance and need.
About five years ago, the FMC Folio Awards were expanded to include social media campaigns, too. The criteria for entry are campaigns that enlighten and inform, as opposed to being strictly promotional.
The Fair Media Council is one of the oldest, most successful media watchdogs in the country. FMC advocates for quality local news and works to create a media savvy society.