New look. New logo. Seasoned professionals. High quality journalism. Local sports coverage you won’t find anywhere else. A passion for public service in Suffolk County.
That is our mission at the new and drastically improved South Shore Press.
Storytelling, investigative journalism, and writing are in my blood. I’m back in the public service of community based journalism after spending the past ten years in the political arena. Most recently I served as Vivek Ramaswamy’s Spokesman and Deputy Communications Director for his Presidential campaign.
I spent over two decades in journalism as an investigative reporter. I’m proud to have been a part of investigative journalism teams that won multiple Edward R. Murrow awards. Personally, I picked up numerous Associated Press awards while working as a reporter and television news anchor at WGRZ-TV and WKBW-TV.
The seeds of my reporting career were firmly planted at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where I majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Science.
My first reporting job was 1993 at WSTM-TV, where I was a “one man band reporter,” the internet didn’t exist, and we still used typewriters to write stories.
Back then news was controlled by the newsmakers and delivered to viewers at specific times of the day, regardless of whether or not these times were convenient for you. We might as well have been drawing on caves or sending smoke signals to communicate in those primitive ways.
It would be almost as crude and ancient as printing a newspaper one day a week.
Thankfully those archaic ways are long gone.
Our team of rock solid reporters constantly update our website so that you’re no longer reading “news” that’s one week old. Be sure to check in to our website at all times of the day: SouthShorePress.com.
Bob Chartuk is a seasoned veteran and the dean of local news reporters. No one covers local sports like Tom Barton, who is known for hosting sports shows on national television networks. No one knows state and federal government like Deborah Williams, who worked for years in the halls of the United State Senate and the state capitol in Albany.
We are also being aggressive in sharing stories on social media like Twitter at @SSPNewsroom and Facebook at @TheSouthShorePress. Please check out both of those outlets.
Our team also wants to hear from you, about stories you would like us to cover. Feel free to send press releases to News@SouthShorePress.com.
If you care to advertise with us, you can also reach out to us directly at Ads@SouthShorePress.com.
If you are part of a local government or entity that sends us legal advertisements, those can be sent to Legals@SouthShorePress.com.
Meanwhile, we also respect and encourage a healthy and robust debate about political ideologies and stories of the day. Don’t be bashful when it comes to letting us know what you think. Good people can disagree without being disagreeable. We would love to post your editorial. Please send it to comments@southshorepress.com.
Thank you for the honor and privilege of being the News Director of the South Shore Press. We strive to serve the South Shore and all of Suffolk County by providing a great combination of hard hitting investigative journalism and the sports and local community news you deserve.
Stefan Mychajliw
News Director
The South Shore Press