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Tom Davis
Title: Part-Time Lecturer
Department: Journalism and Media Studies
Tom Davis
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Web: www.tom-davis.net
 
Bio
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Tom Davis is an award-winning reporter with The Record of Bergen County, N.J., where he wrote “Coping” - one of the nation’s only mental health columns - for five years. In 2007, he was named "Citizen of the Year" by the American Psychiatric Association's New Jersey chapter. He teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, and he's taught a groundbreaking course on mental health issues in the media at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Tom Davis was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004. He also writes a blog called Coping with Life which deals with life, family and mental health issues.
To contact him, check out www.tom-davis.net or www.tom-davis.net/Rutgers.htm or send an email to todavis@rci.rutgers.edu.
Fields of Study: Journalism/Mass Media
Education: Rutgers University, B.A., 1989
Columbia University, M.S., 2009
Tom Davis's Blog
Mental illness, the final frontier
June 21st, 2008 / 3:13 am
You may remember A Time to Kill, a 1996 movie from a John Grisham novel about a lawyer who took on a racist town. He defended a black man accused of murdering two white men after they raped his young daughter. But the high drama came at the end -- easily the peak of Matthew McConaughey's acting career -- when he faced the white jurors and asked them to dream a dream. Imagine a girl, he told them,
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The big battle of Iraq has yet to begin - at home, not abroad
June 21st, 2008 / 3:08 am
The number of dead soldiers in Iraq continues to climb. Others lose their limbs when yet another IED blast blows up their transport vehicles as they move in and out of war-torn Baghdad. The potential after-effects that soldiers may suffer from this war, however, has become one big ticking time-bomb that could explode the military's already fragile morale - if nothing is ever done about it. And
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Get Paid, Get Plucked
June 21st, 2008 / 3:00 am
Tom Davis is a reporter at The Record of Bergen County, N.J. where he wrote "Coping" - one of the nation's only mental health columns - for five years. He was named "Citizen of the Year" in 2007 by the American Psychiatric Association's New Jersey chapter, and he received an ambassador award from the N.J. Governor's Council on Mental Health in 2008. He also teaches journalism classes at Rutgers
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