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S.J. Peddie is an investigative reporter at Newsday Media Group and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of stories on police misconduct. Inducted into the Long Island Press Club Hall of Fame, she's the recipient of the National Headliners, Casey, Scripps Howard, Silurians and New York State Newspaper Publishers Association Awards. In 2018, she won a New York Emmy for co-producing the documentary Cost of Corruption. Peddie served on the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and has been a featured speaker at national conferences sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Poynter Institute, as well as the International Center for Journalists, the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, Columbia University and New York State Archives. She has taught journalism at Hofstra and Stony Brook universities.
Praise for Sonny Couldn't put it down. -Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino By turns blood-curdling and hilarious, Sonny regales us with the life and career of one of the most powerful and least-known New York mafia crime bosses. A scrupulously documented and compulsive read. -Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld Sonny Franzese was a standup guy. He lived his life, and he didn't hurt innocent people. And I knew him my whole life. -Former Philadelphia crime boss Ralph Natale
