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Paul Vitello is an American journalist who has been actively reporting for a variety of publications since 1975. He currently serves as a writer for the religion and obituary sections of The New York Times (NYT).
Biography
Vitello was raised in Manhattan and is a graduate Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Before joining the NYT staff in 2005, he wrote articles for Newsday for 24 years and worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star and the City News Bureau of Chicago. His columns received the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia University, the American Society of News Editors’ commentary award and were named by the Associated Press as the best newspaper column of the year in New York three times. His work was featured in “Best Newspaper Writing 2001,” published by ASNE. He shared in Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. He is lecturer at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism.