SARASOTA FL -- Tom Toolen, a one-time New York Daily News journalist, has joined JournalistPR (www.journalistpr.com) as a media relations consultant.
JournalistPR is believed to be the only PR agency in the Tampa Bay area that is staffed exclusively by journalists. The firm believes that it gets stronger results with journalists talking to media journalists.
Mr. Toolen was a reporter, feature writer, rewrite person and editor for The New York Daily News, before shifting to freelance status to report, write and edit articles for the New York Times, Daily News, Reuters, United Press International, Newark Star Ledger, San Francisco Chronicle and such magazines as Luxe, Money, First for Women, New Jersey Business and New York.
He was on the founding team for several publications, including New Jersey Times, a weekly; and Luxe magazine, a glossy lifestyle magazine based in New York. He also was a ghost writer for several books for business leaders in the insurance and real estate fields. For several years, he wrote a weekly human interest column for The Bergen Record newspaper in New Jersey.
He also served at separate times as Journalism Adjunct at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J.
Over the years, his journalism assignments covered a wide range of page one stories, including the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Pope John Paul's visit to New York/New Jersey, major financial and corruption cases involving government and business leaders, Mafia chief John Gotti's trial, the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King tennis showdown and civil unrest and turmoil in Harlem, Newark and Jersey City.
Aside from his responsibilities with JournalistPR, Mr. Toolen is also associate editor for two monthlies in New York, The Medical Herald and The Spiritual Herald, and operates a website where he writes articles commenting on news events.
He lives with his wife, Carolyn, in Venice and they have two grown children.
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