...Joe Shea

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Publishing
Occupation ...Editor-in-Chief of The American Reporter
Location ....Bradenton, Fla., United States
Introduction ... My greatest achievement was to win a First Amendment lawsuit (Shea v Reno) against Atty. Gen. Janet Reno over the First Amendment, in which I got a law declared unconstitutional in Manhattan Federal Court and was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. I've been a reporter almost all my life, and have worked at or published in publications like The Reader's Digest, Esquire, Argosy, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. I was a 1970 Pulitzer Prize nominee for my stories in the Village Voice, and am an investigative reporter who once got the President's nominee to the SEC withdrawn. I'm also a native New Yorker who grew up on a farm in a small village that is now an important suburb of New York City. We still live in our pre-Revolutionary War family farmhouse there. I lived in Marietta, Ga., and Norman, Okla., as a kid, and went to the University of Oklahoma, Orange County Community College in Middletown, N.Y., and Antioch College in Columbia, Md. I lived in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, Calif., for 26 years until moving to Bradenton, Fla., in 2003.
Interests ...Investing (I currently hold just 100 shares of ERHC Energy, 800 shares of Amerigon (ARGN) and 3000 shares of Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), politics, media, biotechnology and astronomy
Favorite Movies ..."The Pawnbroker, " "No Country For Old Men, " "Collateral" and "Independence Day"
Favorite Music ...Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins and Tschaikovsky's Piano Sonata No. 1 in B Flat Major
Favorite Books "A Winter's Tale, " "The Grapes of Wrath, " and "Beautiful Losers"

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