Contributor

Sheryl McCarthy

Former Newsday Columnist and member of USA Today's Board of Contributors

Sheryl McCarthy’s journalism career has included positions at The New York Daily News, where she was reporter and education editor, ABC News, where she was a national correspondent, and Newsday and New York Newsday, where she was a senior writer and a longtime columnist. She has also written for Ms. Magazine, USA Today and The Nation. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer in journalism at Queens College of the City University of New York, and hosts a weekly talk show, “One to One,” on CUNY-TV.