In full disclosure, I’d like to introduce myself, give you a little background and provide some context for my reporting that appears here.
My name is Joe Filippazzo, 26, and I’m the co-founder and CEO of a 2-man software company currently working on a science education platform called Knotebooks. I recently finished my M.A. in urban reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, though I also have a B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University. My love for physics, journalism and education can best be likened to the quarks that comprise a baryon; elusive and unmanageable at times, yet wholly inseparable.
I’m left-of-center but always skeptical and, like most, I have a laundry list of hyphenated classifications I choose to associate myself with. I’m anti-consolidation, pro-choice, pseudo-populist, quasi-capitalist, and a proud-as-hell bright. I traditionally vote Democrat, though I never seem to pick the winners in the primaries.
In addition to doing everything associated with running a small business, I also do R&D and programming for the CUNY School of Journalism and freelance for the metro daily amNewYork. Dork points go to me for being able to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under a minute and having the first 27 decimal places of pi permanently inked on my body. Huzzah!
By: bibomedia on February 29, 2008
at 10:53 am
Hi Joe,
My name is Ally and I am a reporter, like yourself, but I’m brand-new to Brooklyn.
I stumbled your paper (or is that a blog?) in the course of writing a story, of course.
Anyhow, just wanted to tell you that it was great reading your stuff:)
By: Ally on May 7, 2008
at 6:46 pm
Thanks much for the work you’re doing to get the news out about Sheepshead Bay.
By: Ray Johnson on January 10, 2009
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