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Eric Francis (born Eric Francis Coppolino, March, 1964 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American investigative reporter, essayist, author, editor and photojournalist. As an investigative reporter, he has specialized in corporate fraud and toxic torts litigation involving some of the world's most powerful corporations -- General Electric, Monsanto Company and Westinghouse. He is the founder, editor and publisher of Planet Waves, Inc., an internet publishing company that created the Planet Waves internet sites. Planet Waves Daily Astrology & Adventure publishes four times daily with a focus on astrology, politics, sexuality, relationships and photography. The relationship focus of Planet Waves is on polyamory. Since 1994, he has worked as a research astrologer specializing in minor planets and other newly discovered objects, particularly the centaur minor planet group, as well as a horoscope writer and astrology teacher widely published in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. He has taught at the Northwest Astrology Conference, the NCGR conference and is on the faculty for the 2012 United Astrology Conference (UAC) as a media panel expert and writing teacher. He continues to be active as a journalist in non-astrological fields, particularly on sex education and organochlorine issues and civil rights, most recently writing for The Ecologist in the UK. Planet Waves publishes the Dioxin Dorms website, which gives a comprehensive history of the dioxin incident at SUNY New Paltz and internationally dating back to 1929, for which he is best known as a journalist. In 2005, while based in Paris, he created Book of Blue, a fine art photo studio and series of online books. In a 2008 article, the (Kingston, NY) Daily Freeman said, "Though his camera lens, Coppolino has captured provocative and captivating images from around the world. He has gained international recognition for delivering a fresh and positive twist of world thought and culture with his photographs."〔Kingston Daily Freeman, "Fresh Faces in Business" section, August 2008 edition.〕 He describes the project differently: "Spiritually and sexually intimate, these are images and narratives about gradually discovering myself through the exploration of relationships and art."〔Cover blurb, Book of Blue, http://bookofblue.com/book-of-blue.html〕 In August 2009, as the author and photographer of Book of Blue, he presented his photography and its corresponding psychological theory at the American Psychological Association's Toronto world congress. The theme was, "Inner Goddess and Inner Gaze: Reconstructing Female Self Image." ==Journalist== Eric Francis' first journalism job was as a staff reporter for the Echoes-Sentinel in Warren Township, New Jersey. This was a straightforward municipal reporting assignment (covering the Township Committee, the Planning Board and related functions), but it was his editor at this newspaper, Florence Higgins, who was the person who introduced him to astrology. Higgins moonlighted as a professional astrologer and owner of a New Age bookstore called Aquarius Rising Books. She taught him the rudiments of newspaper reporting, and astrology. He purchased his first deck of tarot cards from her store as well. He took a position as senior editor at Whitaker Newsletters, Inc., assigned to ''Health Professions Report''. He covered the American Medical Association, the American Nurses' Association and other medical industry issues, at the height of the nursing shortage in the late 1980s, grooming himself for a position at The Wall Street Journal, where his boss, Joel Whitaker, was a former editor. However, he moved into investigative journalism. In 1989, he founded the Student Leader News Service (SLNS) in New Paltz, New York (originally called New York State Student Leader). SLNS covered higher education for the State and City University systems in New York. SLNS functioned as a statewide news service in New York that covered the state capital in Albany, and the State University of New York central administration, providing content for student newspapers and student governments across the state and to some extent nationally. The news organization chronicled the chronic budget cuts and tuition increases of the time, and provided the first dependable student news entity covering the State University Board of Trustees and the New York State Legislature. The New York Times described Francis as one of the few people not the state payroll who understood the state budget. () SLNS had major scoops picked up by New York City daily newspapers and state wire services, including one on the lavish spending habits of student government leaders during the budget crisis of the early 1990s. That article resulted in a New York Times editorial called ''Mopping up the CUNY Slush''.〔(), ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Francis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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