Eric Alterman, Professor, Journalism of Ideas

Eric Alterman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, an award-winning author, and a professor of English at Brooklyn College. Widely published both in print and other media, he writes The Nation's "Liberal Media" column and the "Altercation" weblog on Media Matters for America. Alterman has also written columns for Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Worth, and IntellectualCapital.com, and is a contributor to almost every significant national publication in the U.S. In addition to his work as a journalist, Alterman has published several books, including What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003) and It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999). He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and a B.A. in History and Government from Cornell.

Rose Marie Arce, Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing and Production

Arce is a senior producer for CNN, based in New York. She began her television career at CBS and WCBS where she won two Emmys for Spot news and Investigative Reporting. She was previously a print reporter, most recently for New York Newsday, where she shared the Pulitzer for Spot News Reporting. She has served on the boards of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, as well as the San Francisco State University Newswatch project. Arce is also a member of the judges' panel for the Sidney Hillman Awards.

Michael Arena, Associate Professor, Investigative Reporting

Michael Arena was a special writer and investigative reporter, covering government and politics for Newsday and New York Newsday in a career that spanned more than two decades. He shared the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category for Newsday's coverage of the mid-air explosion of TWA Flight 800. Earlier, he was nominated for a Pulitzer in Investigative Reporting for uncovering police wrongdoing in an unsolved, racially motivated murder in Ozone Park, Queens. His reporting has been honored by the New York State Publishers Association, The Society of the Silurians, and other. Shortly after joining CUNY in 2000, Arena was asked by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein to advise on the development of a new school of journalism. Arena currently serves as University Director for Communications and Marketing and oversees development of new Web-based media and communications tools. He teaches journalism at Hunter College, and chairs the annual CUNY Journalism, Broadcast, and New Media Conference and Career Fair, and the CUNY/CBS News TV Boot Camp. He received a B.A. in Political Science from City College in 1980.

Consuella Askew, 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 before joining the Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to that, she was the project specialist for the Association of Research Libraries' LibQUAL+™ program. LibQUAL+™ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users' opinions of service quality. Askew also served as project consultant to the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance overseeing and conducting the activities of a grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She has a B.A. in English from Spelman College, an M.L.S. in Library and Information Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Florida International University.

Sandra Baron, Adjunct Faculty, Legal and Ethical Issues

Sandra S. Baron is executive director of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), a nonprofit media membership organization that provides information and support on media law and policy issues, including news and analysis of legal developments, litigation resources and practice guides, and national and international media law conferences. In addition to working in private practice, she has served as senior managing attorney at the National Broadcasting Co., as associate general counsel of the Educational Broadcasting Co. in New York, and counsel for Public Broadcasting’s American Playhouse. She was co-author of the second edition of Libel, Slander and Related Problems, and has written articles for MLRC and other publications on media law topics. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

Sarah Bartlett, Professor; Director of the Urban and Business/Economics Reporting Programs

Sarah Bartlett is the director of the school's urban and business journalism programs. Previously, she held the Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism at Baruch College and was the host of U$A Inc., a half-hour, weekly show on CUNY-TV. Bartlett began covering business as a researcher/reporter at Fortune magazine, then moved to Business Week, where she served as a staff reporter and an associate editor from 1983 to 1988, and an assistant managing editor from 1992 to 1998. She was a reporter at The New York Times from 1988 to 1992, covering urban affairs, as well as business and finance. In addition, she has been a contributing editor to Inc. magazine, and the editor-in-chief of Oxygen Media. Along with hundreds of articles, she has written two books, Schools of Ground Zero: Early Lessons learned in Children's Environmental Health (2002), co-authored with John Petrarca, and The Money Machine: How KKR Manufactured Power and Profits (1991). Bartlett received her B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Sussex in England.
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Roslyn Bernstein, Professor

Roslyn Bernstein is the founder of the journalism and business journalism programs at Baruch College, where she is a professor of Journalism and Creative Writing and the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Bernstein is also the founder and publisher of Dollars and $ense, the Baruch College business review. An experienced writer on subjects ranging from business and education to media and the arts, Bernstein's work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Newsday, Village Voice, New York, Parents, ARTnews, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University, and both an M.A. and a B.A. from Brandeis University in Political Science.

Russell Chun, 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. His freelance projects range from providing instructional design to art development, storyboarding, multimedia development and instruction and medical illustration. Previously, he was senior producer for art and media at Benjamin Cummings publishers in San Francisco. He has taught Flash at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley; Columbia University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. His most recent book, published in 2006, is "Flash 8 Advanced VisualQuickProGuide." He holds an M.A. in medial and biological illustration from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan.

Greg David, Adjunct Faculty, Covering Wall Street

David has been editor of Crain's New York Business for nearly all of the paper's 23-year history. He leads the 30-person editorial team that produces the weekly newspaper, a website and daily news e-mail alerts, and two specialized online daily reports that provide scoops on politics and health care. He writes the paper's editorial page and a bi-monthly column on the economy. He is frequently on TV and radio as a commentator on city business and politics. Under his leadership, Crain's New York Business has won two Gerald W. Loeb Awards for excellence in financial journalism for stories on the demise of Crazy Eddie Inc. and the impact of AIDS on the fashion industry. David began his newspaper career at the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

David Diaz, Distinguished Lecturer, NYC Government and Politics

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. Diaz is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, taught reporting for television at New York University, and has lectured on media, politics, and ethnicity at various colleges. He's a regular contributing commentator on NY1's Inside City Hall show and has served as moderator at numerous public policy forums. He is a City College graduate and has an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

James Estrin, 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. He has also written for the Times and produced multimedia projects for its Website. This year, he has been photographing a series of stories on Islam. In 2004 and 2005, he wrote and photographed several articles on assisted suicide and dying. Estrin was a staff photographer for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. from 1981 to 1983 and then freelanced in Washington D.C. and New York before joining the Times.

Beth Fertig, Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast

A senior reporter for WNYC Radio for the past decade, Fertig has reported on everything from the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 to City Hall doings in the Giuliani and Bloomberg Administrations to the U.S. Senate election of Hillary Clinton. She won the 2001 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award for her series on the Edison vote, a controversial proposal to privatize five failing NYC schools. She is also a contributing reporter to National Public Radio on stories about New York City politics, education, and other issues. Fertig has a BA from University of Michigan and a MA from University of Chicago.

George Freeman, Adjunct Faculty, Legal and Ethical Issues

Freeman is Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Co., primarily responsible for litigation. He is also involved in newsroom counseling, antitrust and distribution problems, employment relations, and business counseling. Freeman is 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. He also chairs the Access and Newsgathering Subcommittee of the Newspaper Association of America's Legal Affairs Committee. He was an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel before he joined the Times Co. and has been an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching media law to journalism students. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.

Timothy Harper, Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism

A freelancer writer and editor, 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 websites. He is the author of Your Name in Print, Doing Good, and License to Steal, and other books. He has taught as an adjunct professor at NYU Journalism Dept., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Montclair State University. He is a graduate of Drake University and University of Wisconsin Law School.

Joanna Hernandez, Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism

Joanna Hernandez was most recently director of the Feature Production Center at the New York Times Regional Media Group. Her duties included producing print and online content for 15 newspapers and Web sites owned by the Times around the U.S. Previously she worked as weekend entertainment editor for The Star Ledger in Newark, as a copy editor for the San Francisco Examiner and Newsday, and as a reporter for the New York Daily News and The Bridgeport (Conn.) Light. She was a member of the Times’s Diversity Council and served as a regional director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2005 to 2007. She is currently a board member of UNITY: Journalists of Color. She earned a B.A.in Journalism from New York University and a certificate in newspaper management from the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education at Northwestern University.

Jere Hester, Director, NYCity News Service

Hester runs the school's NY City 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 Daily News, where he helped oversee some 50 reporters and editors at America's sixth-largest newspaper. This included generating, assigning and editing stories on tight deadlines, as well as preparing the daily story lineup. He ran the paper's award-winning coverage of the 2005 transit strike and the 2003 blackout, among other major stories. Hester received his BA in journalism and politics from New York University in 1988. A lifelong Brooklyn resident, he began his journalism career as an intern at the Downtown Express, a lower Manhattan weekly, where he rose to editor.

Jennifer Johnson Hicks, Adjunct Faculty

Jennifer Johnson Hicks is an assistant news editor at The Wall Street Journal Online, where she oversees breaking news and production for the Web site in the evenings. She edits original content for WSJ.com and has written about politics, education and health care. Previously, Jennifer worked at The Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix, The Boston Globe and The Daily Oklahoman. Jennifer, a Knight New Media fellow, graduated from the University of Oklahoma and received her master's in journalism from Columbia University. She also teaches new media courses at Columbia in the spring.

Ruth Hochberger, 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 a criminal defense lawyer for The Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. As the first feature reporter for the Law Journal, she covered trials, court decisions, legislation, law firms, and local legal personalities for the daily professional publication as well as contributing to the National Law Journal. She was the founding publisher of Leader Publications, a division of New York Law Publishing Co., that issues monthly professional newsletters for lawyers. As editor-in-chief, she also supervised the Law Journal's magazine for young lawyers, New York Lawyer, and the paper's Web site. She has taught media law and ethics, basic reporting and a seminar on covering courts and trials to undergraduate and graduate students at Columbia and New York University. She blogs regularly on media matters for The Huffington Post. She has a B.A. in English from Barnard College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Lonnie Isabel, Associate Professor; Director of the International Reporting Program

Lonnie Isabel is the former deputy managing editor of Newsday, and was responsible for supervising the national, foreign, state, Washington, health and science staffs. During his 16-year career at the newspaper, Isabel also served as assistant managing editor, overseeing coverage of the September 11th aftermath and the Iraq War, and as national editor, covering the 2000 presidential campaign and the Oklahoma City bombing. Earlier in his career, Isabel worked as a reporter and assistant city editor at the Oakland Tribune, and as a political reporter at the Boston Globe. He was appointed as a Poynter Ethics Fellow in 2006. He has taught news writing at Hofstra and San Francisco State universities. He received a B.A. in African Studies from Amherst College.

Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor; Director of the Interactive Program

Jeff Jarvis, a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, and other forms of collaborative journalism, is the author of the influential blog Buzzmachine.com. He is new-media columnist for The Guardian in London, where he is also a consultant. He has also consulted for companies including Sky.com, Burda, Advance Publications, and The New York Times company at About.com. He is writing a book, What Would Google Do?, to be released by an imprint of Harper-Collins in January. Prior to coming to CUNY, Jarvis was president of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, which includes Conde Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist, publisher, editor, and developer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, and the New York Daily News. His freelance articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the county, including The New York Times, the New York Post, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Business Week. Jarvis holds a B.S.J. from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Sandeep Junnarkar, Associate Professor, Interactive I, II, and III

Sandeep Junnarkar is the former New York bureau chief of CNET News.com, and has specialized in writing about technologies used in different industries. In April 2003, his three-part report on the security risks of online banking was named "Best in Business Projects among Real-Time Publications" by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Junnarkar helped to create online editions of The New York Times, working as breaking news editor, writer, and Web producer when the paper went live on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web. Junnarkar is founder and editorial director of www.livesinfocus.org, a multimedia Website that features stories on underreported issues. In recent years, Sandeep has served as a judge for the National Magazine Awards and Online Journalism Awards. He has given talks or led discussions about Social Media and Online Journalism at The Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia University's Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, and the Online News Association. In January 2008, he was elected president of the South Asian Journalists Association. He received a B.A. in Social Science from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Frederick Kaufman, 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. His most recent book, A Short History of the American Stomach, was published by Harcourt. Other books include Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories, and the novel 42 Days and Nights on the Iberian Peninsula with Anís Ladrón. Documentary filmwriting credits include Fastpitch, the grand prizewinner of the Nashville International Film Festival. Kaufman, an Associate Professor of English and Journalism at the College of Staten Island, received his B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center.

Susan Kuhn, 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. In 1988 she took a short walk across the street to join Fortune magazine as a reporter. She was promoted to associate editor in 1992, and spent the next six years covering the stock and bond markets, writing columns and cover stories, and appearing as an expert commentator on CNN, CNBC, and other broadcasts. In 1998 she received a Masters in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, complementing her B.S.in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andrew W. Lehren, 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. He has been a producer at "Dateline NBC," where he helped with coverage of the Iraq war, 9/11, and other breaking news and won team Emmys, a Polk, Loeb and IRE awards there. He also worked at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting in Columbia, Mo., and has written many freelance pieces. He was awarded a University of Maryland fellowship for covering state and local government finance in 1991 and has an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri and a BA from Lehigh University. Lehren speaks German fluently.

Rebecca Leung, Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism and Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism

Rebecca Leung has worked as a print, broadcast, and online journalist. She has also taught journalism at the State University of New York in New Paltz and served as a multimedia consultant and Web designer at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She has freelanced for the Los Angeles Times and worked as a producer for CBS News, TheStreet.com, ABC News Online, and CNET. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Robert B. Levine, Adjunct Faculty, Arts & Culture

Levine is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Fortune on the subject of music and the music business. Other freelance work includes features on pop culture and business for Vanity Fair, Wired, Playboy, Business 2.0, and Spin. He was a Senior Editor at Wired and at New York, where he edited features about politics, crime, pop culture, and wrote music reviews. He also held editing positions Details, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere, including HotWired, where he created the music section for the startup online publication. He received an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship to report from Germany in 2005. He has a BA from Brandeis University and an MS from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

David L. Lewis, 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, has worked as an on-air reporter for 24-hour cable TV news channel NY 1, and was a staff writer for the New York Daily News and the Gannett newspaper chain.

Glenn Lewis, Associate 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 associate 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. He is the editor of the Documents Volume of the new Encyclopedia of Journalism for Sage Publications. He is also journalism and media expert for Channel 5 News. He recently contributed a series of profiles to an ongoing Library Journal column called "Behind the Book." His subjects included Walter Cronkite, Jim Lehrer, David Halberstam, and Betty Friedan. Lewis is also the noted children's author who developed the Southside Sluggers Baseball Mysteries for Simon and Schuster and the former co-founder, and creative director of Book Smart Inc. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from City College, and a B.A. in Political Science and English from Lehman College.

Trudy Lieberman, Director of the Health/Medicine Reporting Program

Trudy Lieberman is the former director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union; and also a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and a contributor to The Nation. She began her career as a consumer writer at the Detroit Free Press. Lieberman has authored five books including Slanting the Story: the Forces That Shape the News (2000) and Consumer Reports Guide to Health Services for Seniors (2000), named one of the year's best consumer health books by Library Journal. She has taught media ethics in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, and was a Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on media ethics and the ethics of healthcare delivery. She has won numerous honors, including two National Magazine Awards, ten National Press Club Awards, five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards, and a Fulbright Scholarship to study health care in Japan. She holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and a certificate in business and economics journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1976-1977.

Anthony Mancini, Professor, Feature Writing

Anthony Mancini, director of the journalism program at Brooklyn College, is a widely published writer of both fiction and non-fiction. 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. In addition to his journalistic work, Mancini has written seven novels, many of which have been reprinted in foreign editions, including in Japanese, German, French and Spanish. His novel Talons was a Literary Guild selection in 1991. Mancini began teaching journalism, composition, and creative writing at Brooklyn College in 1980, and has also taught journalism courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. He holds a B.A. in Communication Arts from Fordham University.

Heath Meriwether, 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 played a key role in managing the newspaper during its 1995 labor strike and the period of great changes that followed. Previously as the newspaper's executive editor, he oversaw its award-winning news coverage, as well as the start of its joint operating agreement with the Detroit News. He also was executive editor and managing editor of the Miami Herald, where he first began working as a general assignment reporter in 1970. In addition to his managing duties, Meriwether regularly wrote columns on journalistic ethics, and other newsroom issues over the years. Presently he is a consultant for Knight Ridder Newspapers, providing content analysis and critiques of their newspapers. He has served on the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, presenting lectures to reporters at the Guangzhou Daily in China. Meriwether received a B.A. in History and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and a M.A. in Teaching from Harvard University.

Margot Mifflin, Assistant Professor; Interim Director of the Arts/Culture 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. A freelance writer who was a plaintiff in the landmark electronic copyright case, Tasini v. New York Times, she has written for The New York Times, Salon.com, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, and many women's magazines, covering art, pop culture, books and women's issues. She holds a B.A. in English from Occidental College and an M.A. in Journalism from NYU. Mifflin teaches English and journalism at Lehman College, where she is a faculty advisor for the student newspaper and webzine, Meridian. She has taught courses at New York University and has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities on her book Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo (1997). Her biography of Olive Oatman, The Blue Tattoo: The True Story of a Victorian "Savage" will be published in 2008.

Anne Mintz, Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research

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. She helped develop and implement an online index to Forbes publications and has managed both sides of relationships with information providers, as subscriber and as content provider. Mintz has an MLS from Rutgers University and a BA from University of Massachusetts.

Alan Mirabella, 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. Since joining Bloomberg in 2001, he has helped manage coverage of Wall Street securities firms and media companies as well as retail and consumer companies. He has also worked as an assistant managing editor at Money magazine and a media reporter at Crain's New York Business. Mirabella began his career as a reporter at the New York Daily News and over a 10-year span, became the newspaper's business editor and deputy managing editor for features. His work has been honored by the New York Press Club and has appeared in Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly. He holds a B.A. from Long Island University.

Paul Moses, 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. He was the lead writer on a New York Newsday team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting and the Silurians' award for breaking news coverage in 1992. He also served as Brooklyn editor, City Hall bureau chief and national religion writer during 17 years at Newsday. Before that, he was a reporter for The Associated Press, covering federal courts in New York and Newark, N.J. He began his daily newspaper career in 1978 at The Dispatch in Union City, N.J. He has written for Commonweal, the Village Voice, America, the Star-Ledger, the Christian Science Monitor and the National Law Journal. He co-authored a book about Pope John Paul II's journey to the Middle East and his essays have appeared in four books. Moses holds an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College.

Barbara Oliver, Adjunct Faculty, Craft/Research

As Director of News Research at the New York Times, Oliver manages the research desk and editorial library for one of the world's preeminent newspapers. Providing 7-day coverage, she and her staff of 12 work with The Times' many bureaus, multimedia organizations, and the International Herald Tribune, train reporters in research techniques, and work with programmers to design and maintain customized in-house databases, among many other responsibilities. Oliver has extensive experience in research services, having worked as well at The St. Petersburg Times, Towers Perrin Consultants, and elsewhere. In 1991, she trained West African journalists in the use of the Internet for research purposes on a Freedom Forum Fellowship. She has an MLS from St. John's University and a BA from Hunter College.

Dr. Ivan Oransky, Adjunct Faculty, Health and Medicine Reporting

Oransky is managing editor, online, at Scientific American. Previously, he was 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. He has written for publications includling the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Fitness, The Lancet, Salon, Slate, and others. He serves on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists and teaches medical journalism in NYU's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting program. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at NYU Medical School, where he received his MD. He completed his internship at Yale University and has a BA from Harvard.

Tina Pamintuan, Adjunct Faculty, Audio Podcast

Pamintuan is a journalist and media producer who has written arts and culture articles for publications as diverse as the glossy 'zine Bust as well as for Humanities, the journal of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has worked for National Public Radio, where she was part of the production and editorial team that won a Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton for the yearlong series, The Geographic Century, in 2001. She has received a wide array of grants and support for her media projects and in 2006 was chosen as writer-in-residence at the Hedgebrook Writers Retreat in Washington State. Pamintuan graduated from the University of Chicago in 2004 with an MA in social sciences and received her BA in philosophy from Georgetown University.

Linda Prout, Professor; Director of the Broadcast Program

Linda Prout is professor of Media & Communication Arts and the former director of the Journalism Program at City College. An experienced broadcast journalist, Prout was a writer and producer for PBS and the Bravo Network before joining City College, and has served as station director for Harlem Community Radio. She also has produced award-winning series for television and video including "The Kids' Chronicle" and "WomanSource." Two of her programs, "Study with the Best" and "In the Life," have been nominated for Emmy Awards. Prout has also worked as a reporter for several print publications including Newsday, Newsweek, and the Star-Ledger. A former associate professor at the New School University, Prout is a Fulbright Scholar who has taught broadcast news writing and newsmagazine publication in China. She holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a B.F.A. in Theater from NYU.
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Barbara Raab, Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast

Barbara Raab is a senior writer and producer at NBC News with Brian Williams, where she is part of the editorial team that shapes and writes the daily broadcast. At NBC News since 1993, she has also held editorial and field production positions at Dateline NBC and MSNBC on cable. From 1987 to 1993, Raab was a broadcast news producer at CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. In addition to her television news experience, Raab is a contributor to various magazines and websites, including Slate.com, Salon.com, and MSNBC.com. She is a frequent speaker and teacher on media and journalism issues, and has been a Fellow in Residence at Louisiana State University's Manship School, a Visiting Professional at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, and the Hearst Professional in Residence at University of Colorado. A longtime member and leader of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Raab is currently chair of the organization's Educators Task Force. She has a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Brown University.

Geanne Rosenberg, 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. An experienced journalist with particular expertise in coverage of legal, regulatory and business issues, her articles have appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, The National Law Journal, Editor and Publisher Magazine, Investor's Business Daily and many other newspapers and magazines. She holds a J.D. from Columbia University's School of Law, where she was an articles editor of the Columbia Business Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism; and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College.

John Schiumo, Adjunct Faculty, Broadcast News Writing and Production

Emmy Award-winning journalist John Schiumo hosts "The Call" for NY1. The live show is the industry's first interactive newscast where viewers decide the lead story. The prime-time show includes viewer phone calls and e-mails on issues that matter most to New Yorkers. "The Call" marks Schiumo's second launch of a newscast on NY1. He hosted more than 800 live shows as the founding host of NY1's flagship newscast "New York Tonight." Schiumo won an Emmy in 1999 for contributing to NY1's "Outstanding Sports Program" on the life of Joe DiMaggio. In July 2001, the City Council honored him with a proclamation for uncovering anti-Semitic graffiti in Brooklyn. Schiumo graduated from SUNY Buffalo with honors. He previously has lectured on reporting and producing television news at the City College of New York in Harlem.

Indrani Sen, 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 Nation (online), among other publications. She is also a writer in residence and journalism teacher at Bronx Academy of Letters, a public high school. Sen was a staff reporter at Newsday from 2001 to 2005, where she covered politics and wrote crime, breaking news, and feature stories. She was the special writer of "American Lives" - a Newsday-published book of profiles of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Previously she held reporter positions at various Boston area newspapers, including the Bay State Banner, a paper covering Boston's black and Latino communities. She holds a B.A. in English literature and language from Oxford University and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Stephen B. Shepard, Dean, Professor, Journalistic Judgment

Stephen B. Shepard is the founding dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. From 1984 to 2005, he was editor-in-chief of Business Week, the largest business magazine in the world. Prior to that, he was senior editor for national affairs at Newsweek and editor of the Saturday Review. He was also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1971 to 1976, and co-founder and director of the school's prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economic and Business Journalism. He was a member of the School's Board of Visitors, and served on its curriculum reform committee, headed by Columbia President Lee Bollinger. In 1999, Mr. Shepard was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame and received the Gerald M. Loeb Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for business journalism. In 2000, he received the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the magazine publishing industry's highest honor. And in 2003, he won the President's Award from the Overseas Press Club. Mr. Shepard was president of the American Society of Magazine Editors from 1992 to 1994. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Overseas Press Club, and the Century Association. A native New Yorker, Mr. Shepard graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, received a B.S. from the City College of New York, and an M.S. from Columbia University.

Jan Simpson, Adjunct Faculty, Craft of Journalism

Jan Simpson spent almost three decades at Time magazine where she most recently served as an assistant managing editor in the Society/Life section. Other duties at Time included stints as a senior editor in Arts, deputy chief of correspondents, New York bureau chief, writer in the World news section, and Mexico-based correspondent covering Central America. From 1990 to 1994 she freelanced for Theater Week Magazine while at Time. She also has worked for The Wall Street Journal, Essence, Ebony Jr!, and Woman’s Day. She currently blogs twice a week about theater at a Website she created, Broadway & Me. She holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, where she served as a trustee from 1988 to 1997.

John Smock, 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. In 2005 Smock was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship to the Middle East, where he assisted regional publications in developing the visual components of their publications. He has worked as an instructor at the International Center for Photography in New York and has also has worked as a journalism trainer in several former Soviet Republics, Cambodia and Afghanistan. Prior to becoming a photographer, Smock worked as a reporter, an editor and as a consultant for New York Today, the predecessor for The New York Times Online. He earned his master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Gerry Solomon, 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. Solomon was the first executive producer of the PBS/13WNET program "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" and served as managing editor of ABC's "Good Morning America." From 1973 to 1992, he worked for NBC News in a variety of roles, including as executive producer of Meet the Press, Sunday Today, and NBC News at Sunrise; an associate producer of NBC Nightly News, and a Washington-based news producer for Today. Prior to that, he was a producer, writer, and editor with CBS News, in television and radio. He began his journalism career as a reporter, editor, and editorial writer with the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times in Kentucky. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Queens College and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Bernard L. Stein, Professor, Opinion Writing and News Service

From 1978 until he joined the faculty of Hunter College in 2005, Bernard Stein edited The Riverdale Press, the Bronx community newspaper founded by his father. During that time, The Press won hundreds of state and national awards for journalistic excellence, including the Society of Professional Journalists First Amendment Award for defying the terrorists who firebombed the Press office to retaliate for an editorial defending the right to read Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. In 1998, Bernard Stein won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 2006, he founded the Hunts Point Express (www.huntspointexpress.com), a community newspaper staffed by his students that covers Hunts Point and Longwood in the South Bronx. Stein earned a B.A. in literature from Columbia University.

Steven Strasser, 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, correspondent, and editor at Newsweek. In New York he wrote in Newsweek’s international and national affairs departments. He served abroad as Moscow correspondent and Hong Kong bureau chief. He edited the magazine’s Asia section from Hong Kong, then returned to New York to serve as the national affairs editor during the 2000 elections. Finally, he served as managing editor of Newsweek International, supervising the editions that circulate in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He received a National Headliner Award and three Overseas Press Club Awards for his work in the former Soviet Union, China, and Hong Kong. Strasser taught as an adjunct journalism professor at Rutgers University and Purchase College. He co-authored the memoirs of Abu Ghraib's commanding general, Janis Karpinski, edited the memoirs of the FBI's Mark Felt (the Watergate source known as "Deep Throat"), compiled books on the 9/11 Commission reports and the Abu Ghraib investigations, and has edited several other books. He has a B.A. from the University of Nebraska and an M.S. from Columbia University.

Jack Styczynski, 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. Previously, he was an award-winning news and sports director at radio stations in Louisiana and Massachusetts, and a freelance production assistant at NBC Sports in New York. He has a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Hofstra University and an M.L.S. from the University at Albany.

Wayne Svoboda, Associate Professor; Director of the Print Program

Wayne Svoboda is associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and director of the print program. He has been director of the journalism program at Queens College. Before joining Queens in 2003, Svoboda was associate professor of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and editor of the Columbia News Service. An experienced reporter, Svoboda has served as both the east coast correspondent for Time magazine and as the Africa Editor at The Economist newspaper of London. Articles he has written as a freelance journalist have appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor. Svoboda is also a Fulbright Scholar who has taught courses in American studies and journalism in Russia and the Czech Republic. He holds an M.S. in Economic History from the London School of Economics, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a B.A. from Iowa State University.
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Dody Tsiantar, 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. She also served as the deputy chief of reporters at Money magazine, managing a staff of ten reporters and acting as the project director for special issues on spending and investing on the Internet, and as the editorial manager for In Style magazine's special issues. She holds a Master's of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.

Judith Watson, Associate Dean, Associate Professor

Judith Watson is the former New York bureau chief of United Press International who recently served as special assistant to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein overseeing new projects for The City University of New York. During her fifteen years at UPI, she was also the New York State editor and Albany capitol bureau chief. Watson has worked as a columnist, reporter, and print and broadcast editor. Watson is a past president of the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors. She has won the Albany Legislative Correspondents award for excellence in state government reporting and is an honoree of the Women's Press Club of New York State. Watson has taught as an adjunct professor of Journalism at CUNY's Hunter College. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Pomona College.

Rob Williams, 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. He is co-director of the Hugh N. Boyd Journalism Workshop for minority journalists, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and serves as vice-president of the Garden State Association of Black Journalists. Williams has a B.A. in Communications from Montclair State University and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Scotti Williston, 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 began her international career as Cairo bureau chief for CBS News and was the first journalist to report the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After her tenure in Egypt, she became Rome bureau chief before returning to the U.S. as a producer for CBS Sunday Morning. Since leaving CBS in the mid-80s, 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. She has taught journalism at Marymount Manhattan College, New York University, and The New School University, and has been a visiting assistant professor of broadcast at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Williston completed a 2006 Knight International Journalism Fellowship in the Middle East, where she worked with journalists in Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. She is a senior producer for public affairs at CUNY TV and is the associate director of broadcast for "Let's Do it Better!" a Ford Foundation-funded Columbia Workshop on Journalism, Race, and Ethnicity.