Paul LaRosa in his new blog, The Murder Book 2008, intends to record all the murders in New York City in 2008 that appear in the city’s three daily newspapers.

Paul LaRosa is the man to do it.

A resident of Park Slope, La Rosa is an award-winning journalist who has worked in print and television journalism for more than 25 years.

And now he’s a blogger.

As a reporter for the Daily News in the mid-80s, LaRosa was co-winner with Anna Quindlen of the Meyer Berger Award given by Columbia University’s Journalism School.

Since 1990, LaRosa has worked in broadcast television for CBS News, mostly as a producer for the newsmagazine “48 Hours.” He’s won two national Emmys, one of them a Primetime Emmy for the highly-praised CBS documentary “9/11.” LaRosa was one of the producers of that documentary and in 2003 he was awarded a Peabody Award, a Christopher Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

He is also the author of Tacoma Confidential (a True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief’s Secret Life) and a new book called, Nightmare in Napa, a true story of a murder in California Wine Country.

So far, LaRosa’s been blogging since January 1. I know he’s got the stamina to keep this up. He wrote two true crime books in the last four years and that’s pretty impressive. The man’s quite prolific.

Welcome to Blogland, Paul.