Justin Catanoso grew up in North Wildwood, New Jersey, where he attended Margaret Mace School and Wildwood Catholic High School, where he graduated in 1978.
13 Facts About Justin Catanoso
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Justin Catanoso is represented by Brian DeFiore of DeFiore and Company, and the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, both in New York City.
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Previously Justin Catanoso delivered a commentary about his cousin on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
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Justin Catanoso was the executive editor of The Business Journal, a weekly business and economics newspaper covering the Piedmont Triad region.
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Since 2013, Justin Catanoso has specialized in reporting global climate change and climate policy with an emphasis on the forests and other ecosystems.
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Justin Catanoso has covered seven United Nations climate summits throughout the world, including the 2015 summit that produced the Paris Agreement.
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Justin Catanoso is a regular contributor to Mongabay, a leading international environmental news organization.
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Justin Catanoso's reporting has been sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, DC, for whom he is a regular speaker to student groups.
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Justin Catanoso is a board member of the Center for Environment, Energy and Sustainability at Wake Forest and communication consultant to the school's environmental NGO based in the Peruvian Amazon, CINCIA, funded by the US Agency for International Development.
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At Wake Forest, where Justin Catanoso joined as an adjunct in 1993, he teaches editing and reporting classes.
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Justin Catanoso joined the faculty full time in 2011, becoming a full professor in 2015.
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Justin Catanoso affiliated the journalism program at Wake Forest with the Campus Consortium of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in Washington, DC.
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Justin Catanoso has three grown children: Emilia, a middle school teacher; Rosalie, a digital journalist; and Sophia, a specialist in Eastern medicine.