Meet the Leaders Judging Your News

The Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards program provides the ultimate news critic — the public — with a voice so strong it impacts and improves your local news.

It’s all about creating a better world, starting in our own backyards: The stronger our news, the more informed we are, and the better we can perform our civic responsibilities.

Folio judging begins after the holidays, and the results will be celebrated at the largest media event on Long Island, the Folio Awards Luncheon. News about the luncheon, where we have hosted some of the biggest names in news, will be coming soon.

In the meantime, meet the distinguished community and business leaders (some of whom are former journalists, and there’s even a Pulitzer Prize winner in the bunch) who have been appointed to judge the news:

Eric Alexander, Executive Director, Vision Long Island

Patrick Calabria, Vice President, Institutional Advancement & Enrollment Management, Farmingdale State College of New York

Raymond Caliendo, Founding and Managing Principal, Art Of Form Architects

Robert B. Catell, Chair, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center

Rita Castagna, Principal, Americana Manhasset

Kevin Dahill, CEO, Nassau Suffolk Hospital Council

Michael Dawidziak, President, Strategic Planning Systems, Inc.

Sal Ferro, President & CEO, Alure Home Improvements

Roslyn D. Goldmacher, Esq.; President/CEO Long Island Development Corporation/LI Small Business Assistance Corp.

Mark Head, Vice President, External Affairs, South Nassau Communities Hospital

Robert G. Horvath, former CEO, RAPP Worldwide

Bob Keeler, Reporter, editor, editorial writer, columnist (Retired), Newsday; Consultant, Hagedorn Foundation

Kevin Kelly, Co-President & CCO, bigbuzz marketing group

Michael Kinane, Assistant to the President for Advancement, SUNY Old Westbury

James N. Kinney, Partner, Mazars USA LLP

Bruce Lambert, Reporter (Retired), The New York Times, Newsday

Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University

David M. Okorn, Executive Director, Long Island Community Foundation

Charlie MacLeod, President, SMM Advertising

Jorge A. Martinez, Deputy Mayor, Village of Freeport

Jessica McAleer Decatur, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, St. Joseph’s College

Prof. Jeffrey S. Morosoff, Director, Graduate Program in Public Relations, Hofstra University

Brandon Palanker, Founder and President, 3BL Strategies

Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, President/CEO, Family and Children’s Association

Christopher Sauvigne, Founder & Managing Partner, Sauvigne and Company, LLP

Jay Schoenfeld, former Government Relations Director, EmblemHealth

James Simon, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, NYIT

Charles Skop, Esq., Member, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C.

Glen Stalter, Principal, Stalter Consulting

Richard B. Turan, Turan Family Foundation

Christopher P. Wright, Regional Managing Director, Eastern United States, Protiviti

The Fair Media Council extends our gratitude and thanks these esteemed leaders for donating their time to perform this vital public service.

ON December 29, 2016