Justin Catanoso
| Justin Catanoso | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 5, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalism, Education |
Justin Catanoso (born November 5, 1959) is the author of My Cousin the Saint -- A Search for Faith, Family and Miracles, the founding executive editor of The Business Journal (1998-2011), and the fourth director of journalism at Wake Forest University.
Published by William Morrow and Company in hard cover in 2008, My Cousin the Saint is about Catanoso's "journey in search of faith and family"[1] after discovering Gaetano Catanoso, a cousin of the author's grandfather, was a pious Italian parish priest, later canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. He is represented by Brian DeFiore of DeFiore and Company, and the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, both in New York City.
The book was a Summer Reading selection by the National Sons of Italy Association and a Book of the Month Club pick. It was published in paperback by Harper Perennial in 2009 with the revised subtitle "A Story of Love, Miracles, and an Italian Family Reunited." [2]
Previously Catanoso delivered a commentary about his cousin on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.[3]
Catanoso was the executive editor of The Business Journal, a weekly business and economics newspaper covering the Piedmont Triad region. He helped found the paper in 1998 after spending 11 years as a reporter with the Greensboro News & Record.
In 1992 his investigative reporting for the News & Record into fraud in the tobacco industry earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and Medical Writer of the Year in North Carolina.
Before moving to Greensboro, North Carolina, Catanoso had the police and courts beat for the Knoxville Journal for two years.
At Wake Forest, where Catanoso joined as an adjunct in 1993, he teaches editing and reporting classes, along with overseeing the journalism curriculum. He is also adviser to the Old Gold & Black, the award-winning student weekly. In 2011, Catanoso affiliated the journalism program at Wake Forest with the Campus Consortium of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C.
Catanoso earned a BA in journalism from Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and a Masters of Arts from Wake Forest in 1993. He grew up in North Wildwood, New Jersey, where he attended Margaret Mace School (K-8) and Wildwood Catholic High School, where he graduated in 1978.
He is married to Laurelyn Dossett, a singer and composer who has written the music for four plays at Triad Stage, the equity theater in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. She co-founded the traditional music band Polecat Creek. They have three daughters.
On Fridays on WFDD-88.5 FM, the NPR affiliate at Wake Forest, Catanoso does the weekly Triad Business Report.
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External links
- Justin Catanoso's webpage
- NPR: Our Cousin, the Saint
- The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
- Wake Forest University: Justin Catanoso