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WestportNow is Westport, Connecticut’s 24/7 news and information source, offering insights into Westport-related news and news of interest to Westporters. Founded in March 2003, it is one of only a handful of non-newspaper, non-broadcast professionally written and edited community news sites in the nation. It is also one of the fastest-growing, making it especially attractive to advertisers seeking to reach the area’s highly desirable consumer audience.
Gordon F. Joseloff
Joseloff founded WestportNow in March 2003 as one of the nation’s first community news Web sites. Since then, it has gained national attention and is often cited by industry and consumer print and online publications as a model for Internet community journalism sites.
Joseloff was editor as well as publisher of WestportNow from its founding until November 2005 when he was elected first selectman (mayor) of Westport, a southwest Connecticut shoreline community of 26,000. (See www.westportct.gov)
Upon his swearing in as Westport’s first selectman, Joseloff announced he was relinquishing his editor’s position but would remain publisher. With photography as a hobby, he continues to contribute photographs to the Web site.
During a 16-year career at CBS News, Joseloff served as a correspondent, senior producer and bureau chief in New York, Moscow and Tokyo. He started at CBS as a writer for Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather and went on to cover some of the world’s major news stories--everything from presidential summits and economic conferences to disasters, riots and revolutions.
In Moscow for CBS, Joseloff covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the resulting U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. He was the first U.S. network correspondent into Poland in August 1980 when the Solidarity trade union movement was born led by Lech Walesa.
While in Tokyo for CBS, his coverage included the Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines flight 007, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India (for which he won an Emmy Award in 1984), the Bhopal, India gas leak that killed thousands, the overthrow of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, and the illness and death of Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
After returning from overseas in 1989, he coordinated special projects for CBS News in New York and helped organize the network’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War.
In 1993, he joined Simba Information Inc., a Wilton, Conn. media consulting and publishing firm. While there, he founded and became editor-in-chief of Media Daily, an online publication covering the media and information industries. He was also vice president of Simba’s electronic publishing division.
Prior to joining CBS News in 1975, he was a correspondent and editor for UPI in New York, London and Moscow. He started as a summer replacement in UPI’s Albany, N.Y. bureau in 1964 while in college. He has also written for Time magazine and The New York Times, among others.
Joseloff has been honored by the Writers Guild of America for newswriting.
A 1967 graduate of Syracuse University, Joseloff most recently was a freelance editor and writer in Westport, where he served 14 years on the town’s legislative body, the Representative Town Meeting (RTM). He was first elected to the RTM in 1991, became Deputy Moderator in 1993, and was elected Moderator in 1995.
His 10-year tenure as RTM leader was matched by only one other person in its 56-year history.
Joseloff is also active in other community affairs, including serving on the advisory board of the Westport Historical Society and is a member of the Westport Rotary Club. For more than 17 years, he has been a volunteer firefighter and a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician in Westport.
Joseloff began his journalism career in Westport working summers as a teenage reporter for the now-defunct Westport Town Crier.
Joseloff is the divorced father of two, both of whom went through the Westport school system. Daughter Anna-Liisa, 29, a 2002 graduate of New York University, obtained her law degree in May 2005 from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., where she was editor of the law review. She is currently employed at the Law Office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel - South in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a state-funded office that represents death row inmates in state and federal post-conviction proceedings.
Son Benjamin, 27, a 2004 New York University graduate, received his law degree from Stanford University Law School in May 2008. He has just completed a year as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport, Conn., and currently is program director of the Stanford University Law School program at the American University in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Joseloff has one grandchild, Ulysses G. Nixon, born to daughter Anna-Liisa, in September 2009.
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