Ernest R. Sotomayor, Assistant Dean, Career Services
Room 2M07D, 212-854-4922
es2387(at)columbia.edu
Ernest R. Sotomayor directs the Journalism School’s efforts in career counseling, assisting students in finding opportunities such as internships, fellowships and fulltime employment in print, broadcast and online media fields. He joined Columbia in February 2005 after 16 years as an editor at Newsday in Long Island, New York, and specializes in issues related to print journalism.
Ernest Sotomayor began his career as a reporter at the El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post in 1976, and in 1979 joined the Dallas Times Herald, where he worked as a reporter and editor. At the Times Herald, he managed a yearlong project in 1987 covering the immigration amnesty program, which won numerous state and national prizes, including the SDX-SPJ’s National Gold Medal for Public Service.
Ernest joined New York Newsday in 1989 and was Brooklyn/Queens Editor, overseeing daily and enterprise coverage of the city's largest boroughs. He later served as Newsday’s Long Island regionals editor and deputy business editor. As an editor he was part of the editing teams that oversaw coverage on major stories such as both attacks on the World Trade Center, the explosion of TWA Flight 800, investigations of the Port Authority and the online coverage of the Iraq War. Prior to joining Columbia he was Long Island editor for Newsday.com, overseeing local coverage on the newspaper’s web site.
He served for two years as president of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., and presided over its third national convention in August 2004 in Washington, the largest journalism convention ever held. In 1986, he was co-director of the Summer Program for Minority Journalists at UC Berkeley for the Institute for Journalism Education (now the Maynard Institute).
He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Julie Hartenstein, Associate Director, Career Services
Room 2M07B, 212-854-9198
jh548(at)columbia.edu
Julie Hartenstein has served as associate director since September 2005, specializing in broadcasting issues. She spent her career in television news at ABC Network News. She was hired as a researcher on the original staff of ABC News Nightline when it emerged as a nightly program from the American Held Hostage updates in 1980.
For most of her 10 years on the broadcast, she worked as an editorial producer and field producer, covering a wide range of national and international stories.
Her next assignment was as a producer of American Agenda segments on ABC News World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. She also worked as an assignment editor, produced for Good Morning America, 20/20, helped develop correspondent talent for ABC News and has served as a freelance program consultant on various projects.
For five years prior to joining Career Services, Julie was a member of the broadcast faculty at the Journalism School, where she taught RW1, TV News Magazine and Columbia News Tonight workshops.
In 1985 she was awarded the Benton Fellow in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Chicago, and spent 7 months studying clinical medical ethics.
Gina Boubion, Assistant Director, Career Services
Room 2M07C, 212-854-2980
gb2219(at)columbia.edu
Gina Boubion focuses on advising students on magazines and alternative weeklies. Her first job in journalism was a college internship at the weekly Claremont (Calif.) Courier. In 1987, she started as a reporter at the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press Dispatch, then went to the Philadelphia Daily News, where she covered breaking news, crime and poverty.
In 1990 she joined the San Jose Mercury News as the newspaper’s social services reporter with a sub-specialty in juvenile justice. She was part of the team reportage on the Oakland Hills fire of 1991, the Los Angeles riots of 1992; she reported from Mexico in 1992. From 1995 to 1997, she served as assistant editor in the Mercury News Peninsula bureau and editor of Peninsula Living. From 1998-2006 she taught news reporting and feature writing at New York University.
She joined Columbia in September 2006. Her freelance work has appeared in Latina, Bride, Cobblestone Publishing and the Philadelphia Daily News. She is the author of a book for the scholastic market, At Home with New York Kids (2006) and a forthcoming children’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (2008). She holds a B.A. in government from Pomona College and an M.S. from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. My summer hours through Aug. 1: MW 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., TThF 9-5 p.m.
Melissa McLaney, Administrative Assistant, Career Services
Room 2M07, 212-854-4422
mm3371(at)columbia.edu
Melissa McLaney joined the Career Services staff in August 2007 and focuses on updating the career services website internship and jobs listings, and numerous other skills-building features and guides. She provides administrative support to the Assistant Dean, Associate Director and Assistant Director in all functions of the Office of Career Services, including conferences, seminars and the annual job fair.
Melissa holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Teaching from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow. Before joining Career Services, she was a high school journalism and English teacher in Hillsborough, N.C. and advised the student publication, The Ridge Review, which received numerous grants and accolades.
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