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 is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009). 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.