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Joe Strupp comes to Media Matters as an investigative reporter and senior editor with 21 years of news experience across newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the Internet. Most recently, he was a senior editor at Editor & Publisher magazine, from 1999 to late 2009, writing for its print edition, website, and blog.

Strupp, 44, started his career at The Daily Journal in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He has also worked at The Argus in Fremont, California; The San Francisco Independent; and The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California.

He has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and Air America Radio, among other local broadcast outlets. He also spent time as a reporter and anchor at Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California.

Strupp has earned awards from the New Jersey Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists, Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards, and Folio. He lives with his wife, Claire, and their two children in Northern New Jersey.

 New York Times' 9/11 Coverage Leads 'Journalism of the Decade'
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201004050006

April 05, 2010 9:31 am ET by Joe Strupp

As I noted here a few weeks ago, the New York University journalism program had done an intense investigation into ranking the top 10 journalism projects of the past decade.

The New York Times' "A Nation Challenged," which already won a Pulitzer Prize back in 2002 for meticulously detailing the lives of those who perished in that terrible terrorist attack, took the first place prize.

"A special section published regularly after the September 11 attacks provided extraordinarily detailed and searching local, national and international reporting on the attacks and their consequences, along with moving profiles of a large number of the victims," the judges wrote.

Others ranked in the top 10 ranged from Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, 2003 to Barbara Ehrenreich's well-researched book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, 2001.

In all, half of the top 10 projects came from newspapers, including The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on the Hurriance Katrina aftemath and The Boston Globe's reporting on the Catholic church sex scandal.

THE TOP 10 WORKS of JOURNALISM of the DACADE, 2000-2001
http://journalism.nyu.edu/decade/