Education: John Carroll University, New York University



	Erik Boland has covered the Yankees for Newsday since 2009. He joined Newsday in 2002 after working in the Warren-Youngstown, Ohio, area from 1996 to 2001 before earning his master&rsquo;s degree at NYU. Boland covered primarily high school and college sports, as well as local golf and a variety of professional sports&nbsp;before shifting to the Jets beat in 2008.&nbsp;

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Education: Northwestern University, BSJ; University of Maryland, MA



	When I came to Washington, D.C., to cover the Justice Department in 1999, the post-impeachment Clinton administration was winding down, the hyper-partisanship in politics had started to surge, and the U.S. Senate career of New York&rsquo;s Chuck Schumer had just begun.



	Since then, I&rsquo;ve covered a generation&rsquo;s worth of news: 9/11 and terrorism; civil liberties and civil rights; political scandals; judicial nomination battles; presidential appointments; campaigns and elections; impeachments, and lots of government spending. Along the way, I covered Schumer&rsquo;s rise as the first New Yorker to become Senate majority leader.



	The road to becoming a journalist covering Washington began in middle school in Houston, when my Reading Writing and Spelling teacher referred me to the school&rsquo;s newspaper sponsor. As a fledgling reporter, I quickly grasped the power of asking questions.



	Since then, I have learned many ways to seek answers &ndash; talking to the people who know what&rsquo;s going on; quizzing officials and authorities; digging into records and documents; collecting and analyzing data for trends and outliers, and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting.



	My career has taken me from Chicago, a great news town where I worked at The Chicago Reporter and Chicago Sun-Times, to the Seattle Times, where my series on affirmative action was honored as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, to Newsday, where I&rsquo;m now the Washington bureau chief.



	Honors and Awards: More than two dozen local, regional and national awards, including finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999.

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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be like Murphy Brown, the fearless TV journalist from the 1980s sitcom. Then, I discovered that I wasn&rsquo;t too keen on public speaking, so my Murphy Brown dreams were dashed.

But I loved writing, storytelling and reading &mdash; and I was and still am a grammar nerd &mdash; so I pursued a career as a newspaper reporter.

Even as an introvert, I&rsquo;ve enjoyed my 21 years as a newspaper journalist. When it comes to my job, for some reason, I&rsquo;m comfortable talking to strangers, so that I can convey important and accurate information to readers.

I&rsquo;ve worked at four newspapers, where I&rsquo;ve covered everything from education to city government to business to economic development.

Since 2017, I&rsquo;ve been a business reporter, focusing on retail and small businesses, at Newsday. I enjoy business reporting more than any other beat I&rsquo;ve covered because it allows me to explain the connections between readers&rsquo; everyday lives and the economy, rising inflation, ecommerce growth, retail redevelopments, changing consumer habits, etc.

I don&rsquo;t take for granted the access to information and business and government officials that comes with being a reporter. In the changing journalism landscape &mdash; the number of newspapers that existed in 2005 is projected to have declined by 1/3 by the end of 2024 &mdash; that media access is shrinking. In fact, the first newspaper where I worked no longer exists. It was the Manassas Journal Messenger/Potomac News in northern Virginia, where I started as an education reporter.

I&rsquo;m proud of the work I do because it matters to people. The phone calls and emails I receive from readers regularly show me that. Some of them contact me to ask if I can find out about retail and small-business changes they see in their communities, or if a national trend will be affecting their communities. Some trust me enough to give me tips that have led to important stories. Some of them email me just to vent about a topic in my articles that peeved them.I try to use their feedback to be a better reporter.

I didn&rsquo;t become the next Murphy Brown. But I&rsquo;m doing OK.

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When she was a teenager, Tory wanted to be like Murphy Brown, the fearless TV journalist from the 1980s sitcom. She loved reading, writing and storytelling, so she pursued a career as a reporter. Since 2017, Tory has been covering the local retail and small business community for Newsday.

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