Since 1994, he has been managing editor of Thunder & Lightning News Service in Belleair Bluffs, FL.  Thunder & Lightning and its sister company, Number Crunchers Precision Journalism, provide a variety of services to television news organizations, from traditional story development and production to computer-assisted reporting to seminars designed to improve basic newsroom newsgathering and news dissemination.
 

For twelve years, from 1982 until 1994, he was at KNBC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles, in a variety of jobs - newswriter, special projects producer, and assignment editor.  He shared an Emmy and a Golden Mike for investigative reporting for a series of reports he produced and co-wrote in 1986 about the unspoken dangers of a poisonous metal used in an increasing number of products, from atomic weapons to golf clubs.  Over the years, he was involved in the award-winning coverage of a number of other national and international stories - from the fires, floods, and earthquakes that ravaged southern California to the first reports on the arrest of John Delorean and the child-abuse investigation concerning Michael Jackson. 

Prior to signing on at KNBC, Skolnick was a reporter at KOCE in Orange County, CA; a reporter and producer at KXTV in Sacramento; and investigative reporter at KFSN-TV, the CapCities station in Fresno, CA.  He also worked as a reporter in print journalism, and in all-news radio at WCBS Newsradio 88 in New York City. 

Skolnick holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and bachelor's degrees in English and history from the University of California.