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David J. Krajicek is a crime writer, newspaper columnist, author and former journalism professor.

Krajicek is a special correspondent for the New York Daily News, for which he writes "The Justice Story," a long-running Sunday feature that looks back at interesting crime cases. He was the "Crime Beat" columnist with APBnews.com, a crime news web site.

He is the author of Scooped! Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities (Columbia University Press), an unblinking look at coverage of crime and crime policy. Eric Alterman of The Nation described the book as "smart, well written, politically powerful, and culturally relevant."

His first crime fiction, a short story entitled "Sutphin Blvd.," was published in the fall of 2003 by Midnight Mind Press in an anthology of crime stories set in the New York City area.

Krajicek was police bureau chief of the New York Daily News and has covered crime for the Council Bluffs(Iowa) Daily Nonpareil and the Omaha(Nebraska) World-Herald. He has written for dozens of other publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Manchester(U.K.) Guardian, Newsday, Mother Jones, Woman's World, EmpireStateReport, Prague's Lidove Noviny, Nosotros magazine, Canadian Law Enforcement Review, and the Center for Foreign Journalists Review.

Krajicek, who holds degrees from the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, taught criminal justice reporting, among other things, as an assistant professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism from 1990 until 1998, when he returned to writing full time. He has spoken about crime journalism at the Newseum, Florida's Poynter Institute, on C-Span, and at the Radio and Television News Directors Association national convention, among other venues. He has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows, including Britain's BBC, NPR's "On the Media," Fox News Channel and the CBC's "Sunday Morning Live."

His citations include The John Peter Zenger Award of the New York State Bar Association for a magazine piece about penal policy. He also has been cited by the New York Press Club and the Associated Press, and he was named the New York Housing Police Department's "Reporter of the Year." He is co-founder of Criminal Justice Journalists, a national association of crime reporters, and co-author of Covering Crime and Justice: A Guide for Journalists, a Web publication by CJJ.

David Krajicek  can be reached at : DKrajicek@aol.com