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 BusinessWeek, 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.