Journalism One of Davis' first jobs was as a
reporter and
columnist at
The Princeton Packet when he was employed by the magazine in 1989, in 1990 he moved on to
The Delaware State News where he worked for 3 years. He wrote for
The Ocean County Observer before becoming a reporter at
The Press of Atlantic City in 1993, a position he maintained for 5 years. In 1998 Davis moved on to
The Morning Call before leaving there in 2001 to work for
The Record where he wrote
Coping one of the nation’s only mental health newspaper columns that was published in
The Record of
Bergen County, New Jersey, from 2003 to 2008. He has written about mental health issues for The Huffington Post. In September 2010, Davis became Jersey Shore regional editor at AOL's
Patch.com and later managed Patch.com's operations in New Jersey. In 2023, Davis was named editor of Best's Review. His first book,
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness, was released by
Hazelden Publishing on Oct. 3, 2011.
Teaching Davis teaches journalism classes at
Rutgers University, and a course on mental health issues in the media at
Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He also teaches a class called Writing For Media as well as Media Ethics at Rutgers. ==Awards and honours==