Jo Coppola was a prominent 1950s American columnist and television critic for Newsday and the New York Post. She was the first TV critic Newsday ever had, and also wrote for Commonweal, and others.
In 1959 she wrote the script for the short film Summer of Decision, a 30 min long film produced by the Council on Social Work Education, directed by William A. Graham and starring Suzanne Pleshette, Kevin McCarthy and Nicholas Pryor.
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- Jo Coppola, "Comedy on Television," Commonweal, 12 December 1958: 288
- John Hadjuk (2008) Channels of Dissent: Ed Murrow, Mort Sahl, and Television's Lost Promise in The Montana Professor 18.2 Spring 2008
- Keeler, Robert F. (1990) Newsday: a candid history of the respectable tabloid
- Paul Krassner (1958) An angry Young Magazine, in The Realist, Issue No. 1, JuneâÂÂJuly 1958, p.2
- Michael Williams (1958) Commonweal, Volume 69
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