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. - Alvarez, Nina - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Nina Alvarez is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and multimedia producer. Alvarez produced and directed the feature documentary, "Very Young Girls" (Showtime 2009). A former producer of the ABC News network, she has covered Latin America and Latinos in the United States. - Arce, Rose Marie - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & 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. - Armstrong, Lisa - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in several publications, including National Geographic, Parade, In Style, USA Weekend, The Washington Post, Essence, Working Mother, and Ms. She grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and has made frequent trips to Africa in the past couple of years, writing stories mostly about issues affecting women and children. - 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. - Assael, Shaun - Adjunct Faculty, Sports and Society
Shaun Assael is a senior writer with ESPN The Magazine and a member of the network's television enterprise reporting unit. He is also the author of three sports-related books. - 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 senior political writer at The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time. He is also senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From 1999 to 2006, he served as editor of The New Republic. - Benítez, Juan Manuel - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Juan Manual Benítez is a NY1 Noticias political anchor/reporter. He produces and hosts "Pura Política," a weekly political talk-show, and co-writes "Política Pop," a bilingual blog on politics and pop culture. - 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. - Caplan, Jeremy - Adjunct Faculty, Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism
As a Time magazine contributor, Jeremy Caplan has written about technology companies ranging from giants Google, Apple, and Yahoo to startups Joost, Zink, and 37 Signals. He also covers cultural trends, such as carrotmobs, cereal cafes, mini-lit, and life-hacking. - 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. - Clarke, Prue - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Prue Clarke is a television, radio, and print reporter specializing in Africa. Prue's work appears on public radio in the U.S., Canada, and Australia and in The Times of London, The Australian, and the Globe and Mail newspapers. - David, Greg - Adjunct Faculty, Covering New York City's Economy and Business
Greg David became the editorial director of Crain’s New York Business in October 2008 after a 23-year stint as the paper’s editor. He writes the editorial page and a twice-a-month column on politics, the economy, and journalism in New York. - 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 and an editor of its photography blog, Lens. 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. - Goldmark, Alex - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Alex Goldmark is a senior producer at WNYC - New York Public Radio, working to develop hyperlocal news programming. Before that, he was an executive producer of two shows at Air America Radio. - Gray, Barbara - Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research
Barbara Gray is the director of news research at The New York Times. She was managing coordinator of the information center at Fox News Channel. Gray is an Adelphi Graduate and holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Long Island University’s Palmer School. - Hardman, Jesse - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Jesse Hardman has worked in public radio for more than a decade, at WBEZ in Chicago and freelancing for shows such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, and This American Life. He served as a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Lima, Peru. He spent the past year and a half working for the international nonprofit Internews in Sri Lanka, managing a humanitarian information project. - Harper, Timothy - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism, Writing Coach
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 is a copy editor for The Record and the Herald News, two newspapers owned by the North Jersey Media Group in Northern New Jersey. She previously was director of the Feature Production Center for The New York Times Regional Media Group. - 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. - Khalid, Kiran - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Kiran Khalid is a broadcast journalist with more than 10 years of on-air experience as both a local news reporter and foreign correspondent. - 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. - Kusnetz, Marc - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Marc Kusnetz was a network news producer for about 30 years, and has also been a consultant to the New York-based Human Rights First. - 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. - Lesser, Benjamin - Adjunct Faculty, Investigative Reporting (Computer-Assisted Reporting)
Benjamin Lesser has been a member of the investigative reporting team at The New York Daily News since 2006. He joined the News after six years with The Record in northern New Jersey. - 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 filmmaker and veteran New York City-based journalist who has won numerous awards throughout his 25-year career in television and newspapers. - 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. - Lin, Thomas - Adjunct Faculty, Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism
Thomas Lin is a senior producer at The New York Times. He has produced multimedia features primarily for the National and Science desks, edited the home page of NYTimes.com, and written for the tennis blog and the Metro and Sports sections. - Lysak, Michael - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Michael Lysak oversees Bloomberg Radio's national network and podcasts. He has held various management positions since joining Bloomberg in 1993. He supervised the launch of Bloomberg television, as well as international Bloomberg channels in Europe and Asia. He also led the creation of web sites for Bloomberg Radio and Television. - 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 - Associate 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. - Mills, Joshua - Professor, Sports and Society
In a career that spans four decades, Joshua Mills has worked for many of the major news organizations in New York City, including a decade at The New York Times as an editor and reporter. - Mintz, Anne - Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research
Anne Mintz is a freelance researcher who spent over 20 years at Forbes Media developing information resource training for reporters, market research analysts, and other knowledge workers on staff. She has also been an instructor in online research at the 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. - Mitchell, Doug - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Doug Mitchell spent nearly 22 years at NPR as a producer and director. In 2000, he founded NPR's student training program "next generation radio." It gave hundreds of competitively selected college students a chance to conceive, develop, report, edit, write, and produce their own story under the tutelage of a professional journalist mentor. - 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 executive editor of Reuters Health. Previously, he was managing editor, online, of Scientific American; deputy editor of The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences; editor-in-chief of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture; and editor-in-chief of the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association. - 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 and Interactive
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 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. - Richen, Yoruba - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Yoruba Richen has been working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for 10 years. Her documentary, "Promised Land," about post-apartheid South Africa, will be broadcast on the PBS series "P.O.V" in 2010. - 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. - Sacha, Bob - Multimedia Guest Editor, Interactive Journalism III
Bob Sacha started as a newspaper photographer, built a successful career as a freelance magazine photojournalist, and after winning a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship to study multimedia and film at Ohio University, is now a digital documentary producer with the New York production studio, MediaStorm. - Schiumo, John - Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News 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, Cultural Literacy
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. - Smith, Jennifer - Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism
Jennifer Smith covers the environment for Newsday, where she has also written about local government, state politics, and breaking national news such as Hurricane Katrina. Her stories have won awards from the Press Club of Long Island, the New York Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Society of Silurians. - Smock, John - Adjunct Faculty, Photojournalism, 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 & 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, Narrative Journalism, International Reporting Topics
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 U.S. Basketball Writers Association awards in 2009 and 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. - Tomlin, David - Adjunct Faculty, Legal and Ethical Issues
David Tomlin is associate general counsel at The Associated Press, primarily responsible for advising editors and reporters on legal issues related to news gathering. He joined AP in 1976 as a reporter and held a variety of news and business positions before taking his current position. - 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, Narrative Journalism
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. - Wilder, Tandaleya - Radio Instructor, Broadcast News Writing & Production
Tandaleya "Tandi" Wilder is a longtime contributing correspondent to NPR who runs Miami-based She Got Game PR Boutique. Prior to starting her own company, she managed the radio news department at WLRN/Miami Herald Radio. Her staff included seven radio reporters and dozens of Miami Herald multimedia reporters who produced 17 daily newscasts. - 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. - Woo, Wonbo - Broadcast Coach
Wonbo Woo is an Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson," where he writes, edits, and produces news and feature stories.
