Tom Davis

TOM DAVIS

Tom Davis is an award-winning reporter with The Record of Bergen County who covers transportation in the state of New Jersey. Click here to read a sample, or SCROLL DOWN to read more of his groundbreaking reporting on the changing face of mass transit and the declining state of New Jersey’s road network. To contact Tom Davis, email him at tddink@hotmail.com.

Accomplishments:

Author of “Coping” – one of the nation’s only mental health columns – for five years.
Editor, writer and publisher of Coping with Life blog, which deals with life, family and mental health.
Adjunct professor at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY and FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY in New Jersey, where he teaches a groundbreaking course on mental health issues in the media. SCROLL DOWN to view more.
One of six people in the nation to receive a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004.
M.S. degree candidate at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. See his work here.
Click here for the Tom Davis resume.

RUTGERS

Rutgers students: todavis@rci.rutgers.edu.
Rutgers page: News Reporting and Writing.
Old Targum photos – click here.

FDU

FDU students: todavis@fdu.edu.
FDU page: Mental Health Issues in the Media.

NEW BLOG

Coping with Life. A chronicle of life, family and mental health. Read it here.

News Portfolio

Coverage of North Jersey homelessness (click here), the declining condition of New Jersey’s drawbridges (click here) and the lack of rest areas on New Jersey’s major highways (click here).

From the archives: The adventures of T. Magoo Dorcy in Dover, Del. (click here) and Lambda Chi Alpha (click here) at Rutgers University.

Coping

The nation’s premier mental health column, which addressed the struggles of daily life – and not just those involving bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsiveness and other disorders.

News series

Turning Point

A continuing series on New Jersey, Alaska and Texas programs designed to divert people with mental illness from incarceration. The project was funded by a $10,000 fellowship from the Carter Center Mental Health Program, headed by former first lady Rosalynn Carter. By Tom Davis

Articles

Trapped by Mental Illness….and the health system that failed her.

The story of my mother, Dorothy Davis. By Tom Davis

The saga of Ron Troche and Don Cardinali

A jailhouse interview with two homeless men battling mental illness. Article was originally supposed to be the first part of Turning Point series.

By Tom Davis

Personal

Preschool Experience T-ball ties yellow team, finishes season with no wins, no losses and 10 ties. Jonathan Davis hits line drive up the middle. Infield players barely get out of the way. By Mike Lupica

It’s official: Amnesty International declares Anna Shae Davis extremely cute. Toddler expected to bring smiles to millions….well, maybe thousands. She could turn the world on with her smile. She could take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile, says Mary Tyler Moore.

By Jimmy Breslin

Tommy strikes out two in one inning of work. By Dick Young

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Poetry

The Abyss, and more…..

Lost “Coping” columns

– Few were surprised when Perry Cerf killed … his sister was among them.

– Guns and mental illness

Tom Davis is a reporter and columnist for The Record of Bergen County. He also teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University and Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

To contact Mr. Davis, send an email to: tddink@hotmail.com.

“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.” – Hal Holbrook, “Wall Street.”

Read the unfinished works of Tom Davis:

"Wanderers" (Carter Center book)