From 1978 until he joined the faculty of Hunter College in 2005, Bernard Stein edited <em>The Riverdale Press</em>, the Bronx community newspaper founded by his father. During that time, <em>The Press</em> 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 <em>The Satanic Verses</em>. In 1998, Bernard Stein won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 2006, he founded the Hunts Point Express, a community newspaper staffed by his students that covers Hunts Point and Longwood in the South Bronx. Last spring he founded the Mott Haven Herald, staffed by the J-School students in his section of the News Service class. Stein earned a B.A. in literature from Columbia University.
