Faculty Experts

If you want to reach Dean Nicholas Lemann, call his assistant, Sue Radmer, 212-854-6056.

Barbara Fasciani, Director of Communications
Office: 212-854-0123
Cell: 917-576-6208
Email: bf55@columbia.edu

Elizabeth Weinreb Fishman, Associate Dean for Communications
Office: 212-854-8619
Cell: 646-734-5919
Email: ew2129@columbia.edu

Broadcast Journalism

Ann Cooper: broadcast journalism, international media
Ann is the director of the broadcast concentration at the Journalism School and a member of the faculty at Columbia's Harriman Institute. Her areas of expertise include broadcast journalism, the former Soviet Union, international press freedom issues and international media training.
Office: 212-854-9696
Cell: 917-370-7044
Email: akc24@columbia.edu

June Cross: broadcast news and documentary television
June is an associate professor teaching broadcast news and documentary journalism. She is currently working on a documentary about the rebuilding of New Orleans. Her past documentaries include a series about the black religious experience and the autobiographical "Secret Daughter" which examines mixed-race families through the prism of the civil rights struggle.
Office: 212-854-7221
Email: jc1339@columbia.edu

John Dinges: radio journalism, investigative journalism, the Americas
John is an investigative journalist with expertise in US-Latin American relations (specifically Chile, Argentina, Panama, Venezuela and Guatemala), human rights, international terrorism, and prosecutions of human rights crimes of the 1970s. He is on the board of advisors of the National Security Archive of Washington DC (GWU) and has 30 years experience in use of the Freedom of Information Act and developing access to collections of previously secret documents in Latin America. As managing editor of National Public Radio from 1990-94, he conducted a nationwide project in civic or public journalism to improve political coverage at member stations. John has conducted workshops in Spanish and English on political coverage using civic journalism techniques.
Office: 212-854-8774
Email: jcd35@columbia.edu

David Klatell: television news, trends in journalism
David is currently Vice Dean of the Journalism School. He can speak about all aspects of the television news industry, including local and national news. He is also knowledgeable about broad changes in the world of journalism, related to both print and electronic media.
Office: 212-854-3319
Cell: 917-576-2903
Email: dak25@columbia.edu

Richard Wald: broadcast and print journalism; journalism management
Dick is the Fred Friendly Professor of Journalism, and he teaches a national affairs seminar. He has broad experience in both print and television news. He was president of NBC News; senior vice president (and continues to consult) for ABC News. Before that, he worked in newspapers, including serving as managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune and assistant managing editor for The Washington Post.
Office: 212-854-0116
Cell: 646-379-1883
Email: rcw25@columbia.edu

Business

James Stewart: business journalism, the markets, corporate leadership
Jim is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Wall Street Journal articles about the 1987 stock market crash and insider trading scandals. He is knowledgeable about all aspects of business reporting, the markets, and is author of, most recently, Disney War.
Office: 212-854-1613
Email: jbs32@columbia.edu

Education

LynNell Hancock: education, child and family policy, newspaper and magazine
LynNell is a full-time professor at the Journalism School. Her areas of expertise include education, poverty and welfare, juvenile justice and child welfare.
Office: 212-854-8765
Home: 973-783-8519
Email: lh50@columbia.edu

Ethics in Journalism

Samuel Freedman: media ethics, education, religion
Sam, a long-time professor of journalism and prolific author and writer, is an expert on ethics in journalism, education and Jewish culture. He currently writes an education column and a religion column for the New York Times.
Office: 212-854-1829
Email: sgf1@columbia.edu

Todd Gitlin: media, ethics in journalism, American politics
Todd, a professor of journalism and sociology, is an expert on the media, ethics in journalism, and American politics.
Office: 212-854-8124
Email: tg2058@columbia.edu

History

Alexander Stille: Italian history, Italian mafia, contemporary Europe
Stille, the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, has reported and written extensively about Italian politics, culture and history. His books include The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi (2006). His first book, Benevolence & Betrayal: Five Italian-Jewish Families Under Fascism, won the Los Angeles Book Award prize for best work of history in 1992. Also on Italian topics were his books Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (which was turned into a 2006 documentary film). Another book, The Future of the Past, explored the cultural effects of globalization and technological change in various parts of the world. He has written for a wide range of publications including The Atlantic, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine and was a contract writer for The New York Times on the "ideas" beat for a period of years. His areas of expertise, beyond Italy, are European politics, and cultural politics in general.
Office: 212-854-1611
Email: as786@columbia.edu

Andie Tucher: American journalism history, media and society
Andie is the director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Communications. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and has written extensively about American journalism history and the social impact of media. She formerly worked in documentary units at PBS and ABC News.
Office: 212-854-6495
Email: ajt21@columbia.edu

Immigration

Dale Maharidge: immigration, working-class Americans
Dale, an associate professor of journalism, can speak about topics relating to working class Americans, having written recently on wage and housing issues among the working class. His latest book, Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America through the Secrets of a Midwest Town, examines closely the topic of immigration. His book, Homeland, explores nationalism and civil rights with regard to September 11th.
Office: 212-854-3854
Email: dm2021@columbia.edu

Mirta Ojito: immigration, Hispanic and Latino issues, Cuba
Mirta, the Newsday/David Laventhol Visiting Assistant Professor, has covered stories dealing with immigration, race and ethnicity, human rights, and Latin America for the past 20 years. Her areas of expertise include Hispanic or Latino issues in the U.S. and Cuban and Cuban-American issues. She and her family came to the United States as part of the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Her memoir, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, was published in 2005.
Office: 212-854-5099
Email: mao35@columbia.edu

Investigative Journalism

Sheila Coronel: investigative journalism, issues related to Southeast Asia
Sheila is the director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. In 1989, she co-founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). Under Sheila's leadership, the Center became the premier investigative reporting institution in Asia. Sheila can speak about investigative journalism, human rights reporting, access to information and the media and politics in Southeast Asia. Office: 212-854-5748
Email: ssc2136@columbia.edu

Issues in Journalism

Mike Hoyt: current journalism issues
Mike is executive editor of Columbia Journalism Review, which examines current journalism problems and issues in its bimonthly print magazine and also its daily Web site, cjrdaily.org.
Office: 212-854-1885
Cell: 201-233-4547
Email: mh151@columbia.edu

Arlene Morgan: the newspaper industry, diversity in newsrooms
Arlene, the Associate Dean for Prizes and Programs, is a 31-year veteran of the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she was assistant managing editor. She is knowledgeable about all aspects of the newspaper business. She conducts workshops on diversity for news organizations and journalism programs around the county based on her new textbook project, The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity.
Office: 212-854-5377
Email: am494@columbia.edu

Victor Navasky: magazines, general journalism issues
Victor, the Delacorte Professor of Journalism, serves as chairman of Columbia Journalism Review as well as director of the George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism. His areas of expertise are magazines in particular and big picture journalistic problems in general.
Office: 212-854-5751
Email: vic@thenation.com

New Media

Sreenath Sreenivasan: new media; ethnic press; diversity & the press; South Asia
Sree is the Dean of Students and supervises the school's new media department. He specializes in helping journalists use technology better and faster, and can comment on broad trends as journalism embraces technology, as well as new developments in new media and technology. As co-founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association (www.saja.org), he can comment on coverage of foreign affairs, Asia and South Asia, and can also talk about the ethnic press as well as diversity in the media.
Cell: 646-391-3526
Email: ss221@columbia.edu
Web: http://www.sree.net

Politics

Evan Cornog: politics and the press
Evan, who is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and publisher of Columbia Journalism Review, is also a historian and journalist who can provide insights about presidential politics, the relationship between politics and the press, and New York City political coverage.
Office: 212-854-3865
Email: ewc2@columbia.edu

Tom Edsall: American politics
Tom, the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, teaches a national affairs course and can speak about most issues relating to American politics: individual Senate and House races; the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans; the political parties; money and politics; wedge issues (race, immigration, gender, gay marriage).
Office: 212-854-6042
Cell: 202-631-2611
Home: 212-665-0661
Email: thomas.edsall@gmail.com or te2154@columbia.edu

Josh Friedman: humanitarian issues, international and American politics
Josh, the director of the school's international programs, was a newspaper journalist for 32 years. He previously served as chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, where he is currently a board member. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer. Josh can speak on topics such as humanitarian issues, war, the environment, politics in the Middle East, Africa, Balkans, and United Nations. He can also speak about politics and government and New York City and State.
Office: 212-854-9148
Email: jf125@columbia.edu

Religion

Ari Goldman: religion and the media
Ari is the director of Columbia's Scripps Howard Program in Religion and Journalism, and has led Columbia study-tours to Israel, Russia and India. He is a former New York Times religion writer who can comment on issues of faith and media.
Office: 212-854-3878
Email: alg18@columbia.edu

Science

Marguerite Holloway: science journalism
Marguerite is the co-director of the dual-degree Earth and Environmental Sciences Journalism program. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American, and is knowledgeable about such topics as public health, environmental issues, conservation, neuroscience, and women in science and physics.
Office: 212-854-9149
Email: myh7@columbia.edu

Jonathan Weiner: science issues
Jonathan is a distinguished science writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1994 book The Beak of The Finch, about evolutionary biology. He can speak to a lay audience with clarity and precision about developments in science. Jonathan writes occasional articles for The New Yorker and is also the author of Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and his Quest for the Origins of Behavior, and His Brother's Keeper, an account of a remarkable family’s struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease.
Office: 212-854-4099
Email: jw2345@columbia.edu

Social Issues

Helen Benedict: literature of nonfiction, literary journalism
Helen is the author of four novels and four books of nonfiction. She is now at work on a book about the Iraq war. Her areas of expertise are social issues, rape, race, class, poverty, and the study of fiction and literary nonfiction.
Office: 212-854-3622
Email: hb22@columbia.edu

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