Frances Whittelsey
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Location: Huntington : NY : United States
About Me
First as the consumer reporter for Newsday and The New York Times and now as a free-lancer, I write about people who have been ripped off or hurt by the system. One story won a George Polk Award for Public Service. I see myself as standing in for people who’ve been abused, using publicity to equalize their fight. I quit The Times when it censored my story predicting that the Long Island Lighting Company would go bankrupt tryinng to build its Shoreham nuclear plant. Soon after, LILCO avoided bankruptcy thanks only to a bail-out by New York's taxpayers. I co-founded an ad-free women’s consumer website; edited a women’s cancer magazine, and now write for magazines. I also teach journalism at Hofstra University.
Interests
- The environment
- particularly alternative fuels
- feminism and women's health
- consumer problems
- the media
- travel
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The Equalizer/France... Cerra Whittelsey |
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