COLLEGE CLUB HOSTS MARK DI IONNO, STAR-LEDGER COLUMNIST

On Monday January 23, 2017, the College Club of Fanwood-Scotch Plains welcomes lifetime newspaperman and a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist in news commentary, Mark Di Ionno to share stories about his journalism career as a columnist or editor on topics such as Hurricane Sandy, and as an author of award-winning nonfiction books about New Jersey with a specific focus on the Revolutionary war in the Watchungs and his book A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail which received the New Jersey Academic Alliance Award.
Mr. Di Ionno is a four-time winner of the New Jersey Press Association’s first-place award for column writing. His columns appear regularly in The Star-Ledger, and its online partner, nj.com, with an estimated readership of over 1 million people.
Mr. Di Ionno began his career in sports and was a columnist at The New York Post, where he broke many stories, including parts of baseball’s case against Pete Rose and the undoing of Mike Tyson.
Prior to becoming a columnist at the Star- Ledger, he was of the principal editors involved in the paper’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Gov. Jim McGreevey’s abrupt resignation and the 2001 Pulitzer-finalist coverage of the Seton Hall fire.
Mr. Di Ionno is the author of three awardwinning nonfiction books that include New Jersey’s Coastal Heritage, and A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail, which were put on NJ 350’s “101 Greatest New Jersey Books. His publication is The Last Newspaperman, which was also a finalist in USA Books and ForeWord Reviews “Best of 2012” contests.
Please join us to hear about the interesting career in journalism of Mark Di Ionno. The program is free and open to the public and will be held at The Chelsea located at 295 South Ave, Fanwood, NJ, starting at 7 p.m.