Michael Arena, University Director for Communications and Marketing, served on New York Newsday’s award winning investigations team and covered government and politics for Newsday and New York Newsday for two decades. He shared the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News in 1997 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 others. Beginning in 2000, he served as senior adviser to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein on the development of a new school of journalism, which opened in 2006. Arena is a member of the senior staff of the University. He oversees development of new web-based media and communications tools, the CUNY Channel, and CUNY Radio. 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.