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name: Tom   Davis
about: Tom Davis is an award-winning journalist and web producer who is editor of Best's Review. His book, "A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness," is scheduled to be released by Hazelden Publishing on Oct. 3, 2011. The book is available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Wal-Mart and many independent retailers. The book was endorsed by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.Davis was formerly New Jersey editor of Patch.com. Until 2010, he was a multi-media journalist with The Record of Bergen County, N.J., and also wrote articles that appeared in The Star-Ledger. He teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, where he sits on the Digital Committee and is helping to develop more of a digital media presence in the Tom Davis is an award-winning journalist and web producer who is editor of Best's Review. His book, "A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness," is scheduled to be released by Hazelden Publishing on Oct. 3, 2011. The book is available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Wal-Mart and many independent retailers. The book was endorsed by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.Davis was formerly New Jersey editor of Patch.com. Until 2010, he was a multi-media journalist with The Record of Bergen County, N.J., and also wrote articles that appeared in The Star-Ledger. He teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, where he sits on the Digital Committee and is helping to develop more of a digital media presence in the Journalism and Media Studies Department. Tom produces "Rutgers Reporter," a weekly web newspaper with content produced by his classes.At The Record, he wrote “Coping” - one of the nation’s only mental health columns - for five years. In 2007, he was named "Citizen of the Year" by the American Psychiatric Association's New Jersey chapter. Davis also received an ambassador award from the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Stigma in 2008. Tom Davis was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004. He also writes a blog called Coping with Life which deals with life, family and mental health issues.To contact him, check out www.tom-davis.net or www.tom-davis.net/rutgers.html or send an email to . Tom Davis 's Wikipedia page can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Davi.... ...more