Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 50 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media. He has been the host of the nationally aired television program Enviro Close-Up and narrator and host of award-winning TV documentaries on environmental and energy issues. He is the author of six books and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper and Internet articles.
He is program host and writer of TV documentaries produced by New York-based EnviroVideo including the award-winning Chernobyl: A Million Casualties, Three Mile Island Revisited, Nukes in Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens and The Push to Revive Nuclear Power.
He has been chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV on Long Island. He was a nightly news anchor at WSNL-TV and hosted "Long Island World" on WLIW-TV.
He is a regular contributor to Internet sites including CounterPunch, OpEdNews, Enformable, NationofChange and The Huffington Post.
His weekly column appears in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express, The Shelter Island Reporter, South Shore Press, Sound Observer and in other Long Island newspapers and on news websites on Long Island including Smithtown Matters, RiverheadLOCAL and SoutholdLOCAL.
Grossman writes a blog for The Times of Israel.
He writes for the Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, Long Island Jewish World and The Jewish Tribune.
Grossman was an investigative reporter as well as columnist for the Long Island Daily Press, a major daily 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.