Herald editor named to Journalism Hall of Fame

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Scott Brinton, senior editor at Herald Community Newspapers and an adjunct journalism professor in the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication, was named to the inaugural class of the Press Club of Long Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame on Feb. 12.

All winners of PCLI’s Outstanding Journalist Award, the group’s highest individual honor, were included in the first class of Hall of Fame inductees. Brinton received the accolade in 2006.

Since joining the Herald in October 1993, Brinton, 46, has published more than 3,000 articles, columns and editorials, shot thousands of photographs and is now also filming short online videos. He has covered a number of the biggest Long Island stories of the past two decades, including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the crashes of flights 800 and 587, Tropical Storm Irene and Superstorm Sandy. And he has freelanced as a feature writer for Newsday and as a photographer for The New York Times.

Brinton has taught at Hofstra since 2009. His classes include Issues in Science Reporting in the graduate journalism program and Ethics of American News Media in the undergraduate program.

      In 2001, Brinton’s 44-part investigative series, “An Epic Power Struggle,” led elected leaders to shut down a Village of Freeport diesel power plant that failed to meet federal air-quality regulations and that local residents charged threatened their health and the environment. Brinton has produced at least one long-range investigative series each year, either on his own or with a reporting team that he has led, examining subjects ranging from alternative transportation to aging to Nassau County’s heroin epidemic. He is currently working with a team on a series about suburban poverty, “Living on the Edge,” which arose, in part, from a seminar sponsored by the Herbert School of Communication and the Poynter Institute last September. 

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