Krochmal in Media

Krochmal has worked professionally in radio, television and print and has been an online journalist, working in multiple media, since 1994. He has specialized in covering communities, ranging from small-town eastern North Carolina, to the business and finance of the emerging fields of information technology and molecular biology.

He joined The New York Times as a producer for NYTimes.com in 1995, before the launch of the online news segment of the company and a primary producer of the website's pioneering continuous news product, then called the Daily Update.

He was sports editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning (1990) Washington Daily News.

Krochmal holds a master's of journalism from The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he also served as an adjunct professor in online journalism.
Krochmal majored in sociology with minors in anthropology and archeology at North Carolina State University.

Krochmal's father, Arnold, was a highly respected economic botanist and tropical agriculturalist. Arnold Krochmal was a winner of the US Army's Bronze Star Medal as an infantry lieutenant in World War II, a Cornell-trained PhD and a prolific writer who published many books on plants with his writing partner and wife, Connie Krochmal.