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Richard J. Dalton Jr. was a consumer columnist and reporter at Newsday, a major U.S. newspaper based in New York, from 1996 to 2008. He has worked on projects nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, including a package on flight delays facing major airports in 2001. Dalton wrote the Consumer Watch column, reported on technology issues and worked on investigative projects. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a Master of Arts in Journalism in 1994. He received a dual degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986. He is now a freelance writer based in Vancouver, B.C., and owner of an SAT test preparation and tutoring company in Vancouver.