Paul Vitello (born 1950) is an American journalist who has written for a variety of publications.
He went on to write for the religion and obituary sections for The New York Times and has taught at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism.
Before joining the Times staff in 2005, he wrote about Long Island life for Newsday for 23 years.
His column received the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia University, was named the best newspaper column of the year in New York three times by the Associated Press,[1] and won Newsday's Publisher's Award four times.
[3] He shared in Newsday's 1985 John Hancock Award for excellence in business writing and its 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting for its coverage of the crash of TWA flight 800.