Faculty
- Alterman, Eric - Professor, Journalism of Ideas
Eric Alterman is Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, an award-winning author, and "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation. - Arce, Rose Marie - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing and Production
Rose Marie Arce, a senior producer for CNN, began her television career at CBS and WCBS where she won two Emmys. Previously, as a print reporter, she shared the Pulitzer for Spot News Reporting at New York Newsday. - Arena, Michael - Associate Professor, Investigative Reporting
Michael Arena, University Director of Communications and Marketing for CUNY, covered government and politics for Newsday and New York Newsday for two decades. He shared the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News in 1997. - Askew, Consuella - Associate Professor, Chief Librarian
Consuella Askew served as Chief Librarian and Chair of the Library and Information Services Department at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College. She has a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Florida International University. - Bartlett, Sarah - Professor; Director of the Urban and Business & Economics Reporting Programs
Sarah Bartlett, who previously held the Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism at Baruch College, has had a distinguished career as a writer and editor at Fortune, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. She was editor-in-chief of Oxygen Media and has written two books. - Beinart, Peter - Associate Professor, National Political Reporting, Opinion Writing
Peter Beinart is editor-at-large of The New Republic, where he served as editor from 1999 to 2006. He is also a contributor to Time magazine and The Daily Beast and writes a monthly column for The Washington Post. Beinart was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. - Bernstein, Roslyn - Professor
Roslyn Bernstein is the founder of the journalism and business journalism programs at Baruch College. Bernstein is also the founder and publisher of Dollars and $ense, the Baruch College business review. - Chun, Russell - Adjunct Faculty, Interactive II and III
Russell Chun is a freelance art and multimedia developer who has authored four volumes on the Flash software that is key to online interactive presentations. He has taught Flash at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley; Columbia University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. - David, Greg - Adjunct Faculty, Covering Wall Street
Greg David was recently named editorial director of Crain's New York Business after a 23-year stint as the paper's editor. In the last year, he has won a general excellence award for his columns from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors and for his editorials from the Alliance for Area Business Publications. - Diaz, David - Distinguished Lecturer, NYC Government and Politics
David Diaz is a veteran TV correspondent and anchor who has covered major news and produced and written features and breaking stories at both WCBS TV and WNBC TV. He covered four City Hall administrations and many public policy battles and political campaigns, winning five Emmys and numerous other awards for daily reporting and news documentaries. - Estrin, James - Adjunct Faculty, Multimedia Coach
James Estrin is a senior staff photographer for The New York Times. He started at the Times in 1987 and was part of a team that won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. - Freeman, George - Adjunct Faculty, Legal and Ethical Issues
Freeman is Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Co., primarily responsible for litigation. Freeman is also a frequent lecturer and moderator of panels on First Amendment issues and is co-chair of the American Bar Association's Litigation Section's First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee. - Harper, Timothy - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
A freelancer writer and editor, Tim Harper has extensive experience from around the globe, including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and the Far East. He has written for Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Time, Readers Digest, Glamour, National Law Journal, Euromoney, and many others; newspapers include International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Newsday, Financial Times, and Washington Post, plus a number of web sites. - Hernandez, Joanna - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Joanna Hernandez was most recently director of the Feature Production Center at the New York Times Regional Media Group. Previously she worked as weekend entertainment editor for The Star Ledger in Newark, and as a copy editor for the San Francisco Examiner. - Hester, Jere - Director, NYCity News Service
Jere Hester runs the school's NYCity News Service, a multimedia, Web-based wire service that makes student stories about New York neighborhoods available to news organizations around the world. Hester was previously City Editor of the NY Daily News, where he helped oversee some 50 reporters and editors at America's sixth-largest newspaper. - Hochberger, Ruth - Editor in Residence, Legal and Ethical Issues
Ruth Hochberger, with 25 years or experience in legal journalism, was the editor-in-chief of the New York Law Journal for 12 years. A lawyer and member of the New York Bar, she was also a criminal defense lawyer for The Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. - Houck, Mona - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Mona Houck has been a reporter and editor for newspapers ranging from a small Iowa weekly to The New York Times, where she is an editor on the national desk. Houck has been an adjunct professor at New York Law School and a law clerk for a federal judge. - Isabel, Lonnie - Associate Professor; Director of the International Reporting Program
Lonnie Isabel is former deputy managing editor of Newsday and was responsible for supervising the national, foreign, state, Washington, health, and science staffs. He was appointed a Poynter Ethics Fellow in 2006. - Jarvis, Jeff - Associate Professor; Director of the Interactive Program
Jeff Jarvis is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, and other forms of collaborative journalism. He is author of the book, What Would Google Do?, writes the influential blog Buzzmachine.com, and is a new-media columnist for The Guardian in London. - Junnarkar, Sandeep - Associate Professor, Interactive I, II, and III
Sandeep Junnarkar, the former New York bureau chief of CNET News.com, has specialized in writing about technologies used in different industries. He is editorial director of www.livesinfocus.org, a multimedia web site that covers underreported issues. - Kaufman, Frederick - Associate Professor, Craft of Journalism and Feature Writing
Frederick Kaufman is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, Gentleman's Quarterly, Gourmet, Saveur, Interview, Spin, Spy, Aperture, Allure, Publisher's Weekly, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and numerous other publications. - Kuhn, Susan - Adjunct Faculty, Covering Wall Street
Susan Kuhn has been teaching business writing and journalism classes for seven years, at Queens College and St. John's University. She began her career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, in corporate finance and capital markets, then joined Fortune magazine as a reporter in 1988. - Laber-Warren, Emily - Adjunct Faculty, Feature Writing
Emily Laber-Warren is a freelance writer and editor who contributes to Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, and Earth 3.0, among other publications. Previously, she was special projects editor at Women's Health, and before that, she was at Popular Science as executive editor. - Lehren, Andrew W. - Adjunct Faculty, Investigative Reporting
A reporter at the New York Times, Lehren is part of a newly established computer-assisted reporting team to further in-depth reporting at the newspaper. He has worked on stories about the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, the effect of parental consent laws on underage abortion patients, and is working on a multi-part series examining the rise in special treatment awarded to religious institutions. - Leung, Rebecca - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism and Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism
Rebecca Leung has worked as a print, broadcast, and online journalist. She has freelanced for the Los Angeles Times and worked as a producer for CBS News, TheStreet.com, ABC News Online and CNET. - Levine, Robert B. - Adjunct Faculty, Arts & Culture
Robert B. Levine is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Fortune on the subject of music and the music business. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at Wired and at New York, where he edited features about politics, crime, pop culture, and wrote music reviews. - Lewis, David L. - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
David L. Lewis is an independent documentary producer and veteran New York City-based journalist who has won numerous awards throughout his 25-year career. He spent five years as an associate producer at 60 Minutes for correspondent Ed Bradley, and has worked as an on-air reporter for 24-hour cable TV news channel NY 1M. - Lewis, Glenn - Professor, Narrative Journalism and Feature Writing
Glenn Lewis is director of the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program he created for York College -- where he holds the rank of professor in English. An experienced journalist, Lewis' work has appeared in numerous publications including Publishers Weekly, Car & Driver, US, Seventeen, Family Weekly, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. - Lieberman, Trudy - Director of the Health & Medicine Reporting Program
Trudy Lieberman is the former director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union, is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and a contributor to The Nation. She is serving a third term as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. - Mancini, Anthony - Professor, Feature Writing
Anthony Mancini began his journalism career at the New York Post, starting as a copy boy in college and eventually rising to become a reporter, then an editor. He has also contributed articles to numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York, and Travel & Leisure. - McSherry, Mark - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Mark McSherry has been a reporter and editor for 29 years in New York, Britain, Hong Kong, and New Zealand, working on the staff of major news organizations including Reuters, Bloomberg, The (London) Sunday Times, The South China Morning Post, and The Scotsman. He has an MBA from the University of Edinburgh. - Meriwether, Heath - Distinguished Writing Coach
Heath Meriwether has served at the highest echelons of the newspaper industry. He was publisher of the Detroit Free Press for seven years, and previously as the newspaper's executive editor, he oversaw its award-winning news coverage, including two Pulitzer Prizes. - Mifflin, Margot - Assistant Professor; Director of the Arts & Culture Reporting Program
Margot Mifflin is an author and journalist who writes about culture. She has been a contributing editor at Elle magazine and was a contributor at Entertainment Weekly throughout its first decade. - Mintz, Anne - Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research
Anne Mintz is Director of Knowledge Management at Forbes Inc., developing information resource training for reporters, market research analysts, and other knowledge workers there. She has also been an instructor in online research at Columbia University Graduate School of Library and at various seminars for electronic information retrieval. - Mirabella, Alan - Adjunct Faculty, Covering Companies
Alan Mirabella is a senior editor at Bloomberg News in New York. In his current position, he edits breaking news and features on real estate and the subprime mortgage crisis. - Morales, Monica - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism II - Broadcast
Monica Morales has been a general assignment reporter at WNBC Channel 4 in New York City for the past five years, covering breaking news, features, and investigative stories in the tristate area. - Moses, Paul - Professor, NYC Government and Politics
Paul Moses, a veteran New York City journalist, is a professor in the Journalism Program at Brooklyn College. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, Moses served as city editor at Newsday's New York City edition. - Muzzio, Douglas - Professor, Covering City Government and Politics
Douglas Muzzio is the co-director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government and the founder and former director of Baruch Survey Research, both at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs. He is a specialist in American public opinion, voting behavior, and city politics. - Oliver, Barbara - Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research
As Director of News Research at The New York Times from 2003-2007, Barbara Oliver managed the research desk and editorial library for one of the world’s preeminent newspapers. Oliver has extensive experience in research services, having worked as well at The St. Petersburg Times, Towers Perrin Consultants, and elsewhere. - Oransky, Ivan, MD - Adjunct Faculty, Health and Medicine Reporting
Ivan Oransky is managing editor, online, at Scientific American. Previously, he was deputy editor of The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences, and editor-in-chief of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture. - Pamintuan, Tina - Director, Radio Projects and Initiatives
Tina Pamintuan began her journalism career at National Public Radio where her favorite task was writing science and adventure scripts for Radio Expeditions. She is founder of X-treme Youth Zone Media, a documentary training program for urban youth. - Prout, Linda - Professor; Director of the Broadcast Program
An experienced broadcast journalist, Linda Prout produces a show for CUNY TV on the ethnic media called Independent Sources. She is former director of the journalism program at City College and was a writer and producer for PBS and the Bravo network. - Raab, Barbara -- Visiting Associate Professor/Broadcast Writing Coach, Broadcast News Writing and Production
Barbara Raab is senior news writer and web editor at NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She is part of the editorial team that shapes and writes the network evening newscast, and its ever-expanding video-centric web site. In addition to her television news experience, Raab is a contributor to various magazines and web sites, including NYTimes.com, Slate.com, Salon.com, and MSNBC.com. - Rosenberg, Geanne - Associate Professor, Legal and Ethical Issues
Geanne Rosenberg is an associate professor and director of the Undergraduate Journalism Programs at CUNY’s Baruch College. Before joining Baruch, Rosenberg was on the adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law. - Schiumo, John - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast Writing & Production
Emmy Award-winning journalist John Schiumo currently hosts "The Call" on New York 1 News, the industry's first interactive newscast where viewers decide the lead story. - Sen, Indrani - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Indrani Sen is a freelance writer who has written for The New York Times, the Village Voice, Saveur magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the theNation.com, among other publications. She is also a writer in residence and journalism teacher at Bronx Academy of Letters, a public high school. - Shepard, Stephen B. - Dean, Professor, Journalistic Judgment
Stephen B. Shepard, the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, served as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek from 1984 to 2005. Prior to that, he was senior editor for national affairs at Newsweek and editor of the Saturday Review. A City College graduate, he received the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the magazine publishing industry’s highest honor, in 2000. - Simpson, Janice C. - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Janice C. Simpson spent almost three decades at Time magazine where she most recently served as an assistant managing editor, overseeing the magazine’s coverage of education, law, religion and lifestyle stories. From 1994 to 1997, she was the magazine’s deputy chief of correspondents, supervising 11 bureaus across the U.S. and coordinating reporting for major news stories including the Oklahoma City bombing, the capture of the Unabomber and the O.J Simpson trial. - Smock, John - Adjunct Faculty, Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism
John Smock is a photojournalist who works for SIPA, a photo agency with offices in New York and in Paris, and the Associated Press. His work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and Washingtonpost.com. - Solomon, Gerry - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing and Production
Gerry Solomon is acting director and visiting assistant professor of journalism at Queens College. Before he began teaching fulltime in 2004, he was copy editor and producer for CNN’s Anderson Cooper/360 and Connie Chung Tonight programs, as well as executive producer for business programs on CNNfn. - Stein, Bernard L. - Professor, Opinion Writing and News Service
From 1978 until he joined the faculty of Hunter College in 2005, Bernard L. Stein edited The Riverdale Press, the Bronx community newspaper founded by his father. In 1998, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. - Strasser, Steven - Associate Professor, Craft of Journalism and Narrative Journalism
Steven Strasser began his career as a reporter for The Miami Herald and went on to work as a writer and editor at Newsweek in New York and abroad. He received a National Headliner Award and three Overseas Press Club Awards for his work in the former Soviet Union, China, and Hong Kong. - Styczynski, Jack - Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research
Jack Styczynski has been a researcher since 1995 at NBC News, The New York Times, and People magazine, filling information requests for reporters and other staff and training them to “help themselves.” He also freelances as a sports feature writer and won a U.S. Basketball Writers Association award in 2006. - Svoboda, Wayne - Associate Professor; Director of the Print Program
Wayne Svoboda has been director of the journalism program at CUNY’s Queens College, east coast correspondent for Time magazine, and Africa editor at The Economist of London. He is a Fulbright Scholar who has taught in Russia and the Czech Republic. - Tsiantar, Dody - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism and Covering Companies
Dody Tsiantar is a freelance reporter and editor who until June, 2006, was senior business reporter at Time magazine, covering the advertising, beauty, retail and travel industries. She began her career as a special correspondent at The Washington Post in 1983 and later worked as a business reporter and associate editor for Newsweek. - Twomey, Steve - Adjunct Faculty, Feature Writing
Steve Twomey won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1987 for a profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier. He worked for nearly three decades as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and abroad for The Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. - Watson, Judith - Associate Dean, Associate Professor
Judith Watson is former New York bureau chief of United Press International who served as special assistant to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein overseeing new projects for The City University of New York. Watson has worked as a columnist, reporter, and print and broadcast editor. - Williams, Rob - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Rob Williams reports for The Star Ledger in Newark, covering seven communities in Morris County and writing about development, the immigration debate, and related topics. He has also worked as a copy editor in business and sports for the Asbury Park Press and other news organizations. - Williston, Scotti - Senior Producer in Residence, News Service
Scotti Williston has worked both in front of the lens as a reporter for WPIX-TV, NYC, and behind the camera as a producer around the world. She has been an independent producer and consultant for NBC News, WNET/PBS (NYC), POP TV (Slovenia), and Shanghai Media Group-Dragon TV (China), among others.
