Joe Dowd, a longtime business journalist who is currently the Plainview editor for Patch.com, has been named the editor of the Long Island Business News.
He replaces Greg Zeller, who left the editor position last year.
Dowd has worked as a reporter for the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., and as an editor for the Middletown Times Herald-Record in the Hudson Valley. He’s been a city editor and an assistant managing editor at the Scranton Times & Tribune. His specialty is police and fire coverage, which has earned him first-place awards in two states. He won praise for a series of columns from Rome following the death of Pope John Paul II.
Dowd, 58, earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Buffalo’s Canisius College and a master’s in journalism/public affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.
