Ray Marcano
American journalist
Ray Marcano is an American journalist, music critic, and award-winning opinion columnist for the Dayton (OH) Daily News. He was a leader in the nascent internet business for Cox Media Group. In 2000, he became president of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the largest journalism organization in the United States, only the second Black president of the organization in its history. He was one of the directors of the Cox Media Group, which owns the Dayton Daily News.
Early life and work
Marcano grew up in The Bronx's Monroe housing project. He attended The High School of Music & Art, studying voice, percussion and piano, with the hope to become a R&B star. At school, he was in a band jazz band with jazz bass guitarist Marcus Miller, who later worked with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, but felt that he did not have the talent to make it as a professional jazz musician.
Marcano began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s. Around 1981, he began working for a newspaper in Vinita, Oklahoma, and after a two-year stint he joined Tulsa World. A year later, in 1984, Marcano began a long term working for the Dayton Daily News, specializing in medicine.
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