Career
He was a journalism professor at New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently an editor at The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey He also covered the story of Tawana Brawley, which he and four of his colleagues turned into in 1990. In 2003, he co-wrote with Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of police brutality victim Amadou Diallo.