Ray Marcano

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Ray Marcano is an American journalist, music critic, and musician known for his work as a medical reporter, and later a music critic, for the Dayton Daily News in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2000, he became president of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the largest journalism organization in the United States, only the second black president of the organization in its history. He was one of the directors of the Cox Media Group, which owns the Dayton Daily News.

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Early life and work

Marcano grew up in The Bronx's Monroe housing project. [1] He attended The High School of Music & Art, studying voice, percussion and piano, with the hope to become a R&B star. [2] At school, he was in a band jazz band with jazz bass guitarist Marcus Miller, who later worked with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, but felt that he did not have the talent to make it as a professional jazz musician. [3]

Marcano began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s. Around 1981, he began working for a newspaper in Vinita, Oklahoma, and after a two-year stint he joined Tulsa World . [3] A year later, in 1984, Marcano began a long term working for the Dayton Daily News, [3] specializing in medicine. [4] His first news story was a report on the state analysis of hospital charges and how some hospitals overcharge patients. [5] In 1993, the US government reported that when the Ohio Department of Health "turned over floppy disks with hospital admission information", Marcano "easily turned [them] into revealing stories on discrepancies in health care costs and procedures". [6] He has worked for newspapers as a reporter and editor in New York, Ohio and Oklahoma and is also an editor of the book Back in Orbit. [7] Writing for Dayton Daily News, as its news manager for sports, he observed: "I think it's important for newsrooms to be diverse....newspapers have to be able to reflect things that go on in the whole community." [8]

Later work

In 2000, he became president of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the largest journalism organization in the United States with 300 chapters and 10,000 members. He was only the second black president in the history of the organization, which was founded in 1909. [9] [10] He became the director of digital audience growth for Cox Media Group, a company which owns the Dayton Daily News. [11] He is currently a lecturer at Wright State University. [12] Marcano received a Fulbright Special Grant at the University of Iceland in 2013. [13]

In 2014, he became editor of the sports website FanBuzz.com where he served for three years. Starting in 2017, he began freelancing for some of the country's largest brands as an editor, including CNN and the Southern Poverty Law Center. As a writer, his editorial work has appeared in USA Today, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch and Yahoo News. He has written a weekly Sunday opinion column in the Dayton Daily News since 2021 and continues to write freelance news articles for a number of publications.

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  2. ↑ Sally Lehrman; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (2005). News in a New America . Knight Foundation. ISBN   978-0-9749702-1-9.
  3. 1 2 3 Hannah, Jim (20 November 2014). "A Bronx tale". Wright State University. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Presstime. American Newspaper Publishers Association. July 1987. p. 49.
  5. ↑ The American Editor. American Society of Newspaper Editors. 1991. p. 11.
  6. ↑ The Electronic Freedom of Information Improvement Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 1940, a bill to amend Title 5, United States Code, to provide for public access ... April 30, 1992. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Technology. 1993. p. 169. ISBN   978-0-16-041099-4.
  7. ↑ Gaffney, Timothy R.; Montgomery, Scott (1998). Back in Orbit: John Glenn's Return to Space . Longstreet. p.  167. ISBN   978-1-56352-525-4.
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  10. ↑ Glenn, William Meharry (1949). The Sigma Delta Chi Story (1909–1949) . Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Centerville man lectures in Iceland". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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