Background
Ungaro, Joseph Michael was born on November 4, 1930 in Providence. Son of Rocco and Lucy (Motta) University.
consultant newspaper publishing executive
Ungaro, Joseph Michael was born on November 4, 1930 in Providence. Son of Rocco and Lucy (Motta) University.
Ungaro graduated from Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
In 1950 he began working for The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin first as a copy boy, and then as a reporter, managing editor, and publisher. On November 17, 1973, at the annual Associated Press Managing Editors convention in Orlando, Florida, Ungaro asked Nixon about his reported underpayment of income taxes in 1970 and 1971. Nixon’s famous declaration came after he answered a subsequent question about the Watergate scandal, posed by then president of the association Dick Smyser of Oak Ridge, Tennessee"s The Oak Ridger.
At the end of that reply, Nixon doubled back to Ungaro’s question, saying: "I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.
Well, I’m not a crook."
Nixon later agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Ungaro left the Evening Bulletin later that year and began working at Gannett Company"s Westchester Rockland Newspapers in 1974 as managing editors
He later became vice president and executive editor, vice president and general manager, and then president and publisher. He was given the additional responsibilities as vice president of the Metro Newspaper Division.
He later became president and chief executive of the Detroit Newspaper Agency, the company that managed a joint operating agreement between The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press.
Ungaro"s final position was at Stars and Stripes, where he put together a consolidation plan for the newspaper and then became its ombudsman.
Member American Newspaper Publications Association (past chairman research institute, convention program committee), American Society Newspaper Editors, Associated Press Managing Editors Association (past president).
Married Evelyn Short, April 15, 1961. Children: Elizabeth Anne, Joseph Michael, Ellen Lucia.