Leadership

Leading the Fair Media Council is a select group of business and community leaders, educators and former journalists. 

Working together, they seek to improve the quality of news for the betterment of all. That is the hallmark of FMC programming. 

The Fair Media Council’s mission, to advocate for quality news and to create a media-savvy society, is exclusive. It’s fitting that it is headquartered on Long Island, N.Y., which is home to many important media innovations throughout history. 

 

BOARD SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: Ernest T. Bartol, Managing Attorney, Bartol Law Firm, P.C.

Fair Media Council Board of Director Senior Vice President Ernest T. Bartol serves as the National Director of the Federal Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Federal Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association.  He is a member of various Who’s Who registers, including Who’s Who in American Law.

In 2003 he became a member of the Civil Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and in August of 2008, he became a member of the Magistrate Selection Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  In March of 2008, he became a member of the State of New York Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second, Tenth, and Eleventh Judicial Districts. In 2004 he became the Presiding Trustee of the Board of Directors of United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County, a charity for whom he has donated substantial time for 40 years.

He is admitted to practice before all the Courts of the State of New York, a number of United States District Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Tax Court.  While he is a seasoned litigator, he is also the Managing Attorney of Bartol Law Firm, P.C.

BOARD TREASURER: Joe Calderone, Senior Vice President, Communications & Development, Mount Sinai South Nassau

Joe Calderone is a seasoned public relations executive and author of the thriller, Don’t Look Back, distributed by Simon and Schuster. He served as Investigations Editor of the New York Daily News at the time of the World Trade Center attack and helped cover the FDNY in the aftermath of 9/11, including documenting the problems firefighters had communicating via radio that day. 

He worked as a newspaper editor and reporter for more than 25 years, including covering City Hall for New York Newsday. While with Newsday, he was a member of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. He is a long-time adjunct instructor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where he teaches investigative reporting. He is treasurer of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

BOARD CHAIR: Raymond Caliendo, Founding Principal, Art-of-Form Architects

Ray is the Managing Director and Chief Coordinator of all firm activities. He is the primary client liaison and acts as the Architect of Record for most of New York State and City projects. Ray is a graduate of NYIT, and after concluding his full-time studies in 1985, Ray worked first as a Draftsperson and then as a Project Manager for a variety of firms within the architectural industry. 

Ray received his license to practice architecture in 1992 and founded Art-Of-Form Architects in 1994. Ray is a registered architect and a registered interior designer with professional affiliations in both the AIA and ASID. He is chair of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Jaci Clement, CEO & Executive Director, Fair Media Council

Jaci Clement earned her first byline in a daily newspaper when she was in the fourth grade. She’s been working for and with media ever since. Today, she is recognized as one of the most influential media scholars in the country.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Jaci Clement

Jamie Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Queens College

Jamie Cohen is the Head of Education for Digital Void, an internet literacy project that helps people bridge the gap between digital life and everyday culture. Jamie holds a PhD in Cultural and Media Studies specializing in internet culture and graphical communication. He formerly founded and directed the New Media degree at Molloy University and continues to lead teams of students in immersive digital production design projects in Rome, Italy. 

Jamie is an assistant professor of Media Studies at CUNY Queens College. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Ann Marie Gothard, Global Corporate Media Relations Vice President, Henry Schein

A seasoned communications professional, Ann Marie’s experience spans nearly two decades, across a variety of sectors in health care. Currently, she is Vice President, Global Corporate Media Relations for Henry Schein, Inc., where she leads strategic media relations for the company. 

Prior to joining Henry Schein, she worked at NYC’s EmblemHealth, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health plans, which she joined from Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she led marketing and communications for one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. She has also led global communications for Orbis International, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating blindness, and AETNA, the health care insurer. She is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Jessica McAleer Decatur, Vice President of Marketing & Communications, St. Joseph's University

Jessica McAleer Decatur serves as Vice President for Marketing and Communications at St. Joseph’s University, New York, with campuses located in Patchogue, Brooklyn and Online. 

An award-winning communications professional with more than 25 years of industry experience, she has a proven track-record of success for building comprehensive communications and brand programs from the ground up. Very active in the community, Jess sits on the board of directors for the Rose Brucia Educational Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization that teaches the importance of stranger safety awareness to school-aged children. She is also co-chair of the Awareness Committee for the Christopher A. Coluccio
Foundation, which provides community support and education on mental health issues related to depression and suicide. An advocate for the ethical and moral treatment of animals, she devotes a lot of her spare time to volunteer rescue efforts for the stray and feral population on Long Island.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Walter Middlebrook, Foster Professor of Practice, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State University

Walter Middlebrook, a former assistant managing editor at The Detroit News, is a longtime senior editor and newsroom manager, whose career includes editing stints at The New York Times, Newsday/New York Newsday, USA Today and the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. He was part of a Newsday team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for spot news.

A Lifetime Achievement award-winner (the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists) and a lifetime member of the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Memphis, Tenn., native is a graduate of Boston University and an Eagle Scout. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

Jeffrey S. Morosoff, Chair, Dept. of Journalism, Media Studies & Public Relations, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, Hofstra University

Jeffrey S. Morosoff is chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Pubic Relations at The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate PR courses and is faculty adviser to Hofstra’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter. 
 

His 30-year PR career included positions at Cablevision, Long Island Association, Town of Babylon, New York Institute of Technology, and Nassau Community College. He has received Hofstra’s Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Public Relations Professionals of Long Island’s Jack Rettaliata Lifetime Achievement Award, and International Association of Business Communicators’ Achievement in Communications Award.

Morosoff began his career as a deejay at WGLI-AM, traffic reporter for Shadow Network, and news director at WBLI-FM before joining Cablevision, where he handled community and government relations plus public access TV productions in the early ’80s. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

BOARD SECRETARY: Barbara Osborn, Vice President of Public Relations, Northwell Health

As vice president of public relations, Barbara Osborn oversees communications for Northwell Health, including the health system’s 22 hospitals and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. In this role, she manages media relations, thought leadership and strategic communications.

Her expertise was spotlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she connected national and local media with Northwell’s clinical and non-clinical leaders to provide an inside look into the crisis. Northwell treated more coronavirus patients than any other health care provider in the US. She has also led communications strategy for large systemwide initiatives such as The Fin, Northwell’s innovative amphibious prosthetic, and the new Netflix docuseries, “Lenox Hill,” which chronicles the daily life of four Manhattan-based clinicians. 

She began her career as a journalist in the news departments of both Fox News Channel and News 12 Long Island. She is secretary of the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

BOARD VICE PRESIDENT: Christopher Wright, Ed.D., Global Solution Leader – Business Performance Improvement, Protiviti Consulting

Chris Wright, from Protiviti’s New York office, is the firm-wide Managing Director of our Business Performance Improvement solution, which includes our Public Company Transformation and Financial Reporting Remediation and Compliance groups, and chairs our ESG Steering Committee. He has over thirty years of experience serving clients as an external auditor, including 6 years as a partner at two global accounting firms (Arthur Andersen and KPMG), and as an internal auditor and financial reporting risk consultant.

At Protiviti, Chris has provided significant assistance to companies with new accounting and disclosure requirements, and those experiencing restatements, regulatory inquiries, stock compensation and other financial investigations. Chris earned his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Accounting from Franciscan University, a Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Quinnipiac University and a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University.

Chris serves on the boards of several charitable, civic, educational and business organizations. His work in Financial Reporting Remediation and Compliance has also involved a significant commitment to public speaking and the development and delivery of internal and external training. He is a vice president on the board of directors of the Fair Media Council.

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