Joe Shea was editor-in-chief of The American Reporter, the first daily Internet newspaper, started on April 10,1995.
14 Facts About Joe Shea
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Joe Shea is a noted community activist whose efforts to clean up a dangerous neighborhood in Hollywood, California were praised by authorities as a national model for Neighborhood Watch.
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Joe Shea started the Committee to Draft US Senator John Kerry which sought to get the Massachusetts senator into the 1988 Presidential race.
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Joe Shea started out in journalism by covering the 1968 New York City riot the night of the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joe Shea worked for the Village Voice as a freelance war correspondent in Northern Ireland, India, Vietnam and the Philippines, and was responsible in 1976 for the withdrawal of President Gerald Ford's nomination of Patrick Delaney to the Securities Exchange Commission after the Village Voice published his article revealing inconsistencies in Delaney's resume.
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Joe Shea wrote an article linking Nelson Rockefeller, then Governor of New York, to a Bolivian diplomat, Victor Andrade, whom the US Office of Strategic Services had identified as a "front for Nazis" in the cabinet of Bolivian President Paz Estenssoro.
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Joe Shea later worked on the staff at Esquire Magazine, where he was responsible for a suggestion that became a regular feature of the magazine called "Reckless Advice", which became a book by Lee Eisenberg.
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Joe Shea rolled a coin across his fingers on both hands while tap-dancing and singing "The Impossible Dream" on the Gong Show in 1978, and wrote about the experience for the Village Voice.
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Joe Shea's seat was won by Geraldine Ferraro, who became the first major-party female nominee for vice president just two years later.
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Joe Shea was the executive speech writer consultant at Lockheed Corp.
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Joe Shea wrote three speeches, including one broadcast nationally on Town Hall and one to the American Society of Financial Analysts for Lockheed Chairman Roy Anderson, and one for Lockheed President Larry Kitchen, an address to the National Aeronautic Association.
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Joe Shea appeared frequently on television as a community leader and was frequently quoted in the Los Angeles Times during his 10-year effort as leader of the Ivar Hawks Neighborhood Watch to reduce the high rate of violent crime in Hollywood during the 1990s.
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In 2001, Joe Shea was hailed for his leadership by Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks in an LAPD press release.
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Joe Shea appeared as The Tourist in the original Brooklyn Academy of Music production of Robert Wilson's 12-hour opera, "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin", in 1976.