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Subject area: Arts & Culture
David Hajdu: music, film, popular culture
Professor Hajdu writes a monthly column for The New Republic on music and popular culture. He was formerly the general editor of Entertainment Weekly. He is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina; and The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.
Office: 212-854-0340
Email: dh2154@columbia.edu
Alisa Solomon: arts & culture journalism; arts policy and politics; theater.
Professor Alisa Solomon directs the Arts & Culture concentration in the M.A.
Program at the Journalism School. She spent nearly 20 years teaching English/Journalism at Baruch College-CUNY; Theater and English at the CUNY Graduate Center; and was on staff at the Village Voice for 21 years. She holds a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale.
Office: 212-854-1996
Email: as646@columbia.edu
Subject area: Broadcast Journalism
Ann Cooper: broadcast journalism, international media
Professor Cooper 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
Professor Cross 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
Professor Dinges 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. 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.
Office: 212-854-8774
Email: jcd35@columbia.edu
David Klatell: journalism education, television news, trends in journalism
Professor Klatell is the chair of international studies. He is a recognized expert on the development and management of journalism education and training programs. He has advised universities and professional organizations in more than 20 nations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 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
Betsy West: broadcast journalism; online video news; documentaries
From 1998 to 2005, Professor Betsy West was senior vice president for CBS News, where she oversaw 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II and 48 Hours. She was the executive in charge of "9/11," winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary.West is co-producer of “Constantine's Sword,” a feature-length documentary film that premiered June, 2007. She received her B.A. from Brown University, and her M.S. in Communications from Syracuse University.
Office: 212-854-9684
Cell: 646-379-1883
Email: ebw2112@columbia.edu
Subject area: 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
Subject area: Economics
Sylvia Nasar: economics, mental illness, creativity, mathematics
Professor Nasar is the James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism. She is the author of A Beautiful Mind, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a Pulitzer finalist. Professor Nasar was a New York Times economics correspondent (1991-1999), staff writer at Fortune and columnist at U.S. News & World Report. She co-edited The Essential John Nash (1991) and The Best American Science Writing (2008).
Office: 212-854-6184
Email: szn1@columbia.edu
Subject area: 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
David Klatell: journalism education, television news, trends in journalism
Professor Klatell is the chair of international studies. He is a recognized expert on the development and management of journalism education and training programs. He has advised universities and professional organizations in more than 20 nations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He was professional a broadcast journalist 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
Subject area: Ethics in Journalism
Samuel Freedman: media ethics, education, religion
Freedman, 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
Gitlin, 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
Subject area: Global Affairs
Howard French: West Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, Japan, the Koreas, China.
Howard French's work has been published in The Nation, the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone among other publications. He was The New York Times' bureau chief for West Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, Japan, the Koreas, and China for 18 years. He is the author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.
Office: 212-854-0163
Email:hf2205@columbia.edu
Subject area: History
Michael Janeway: political history; politics
Michael Janeway is a professor of journalism and the arts. He has been a reporter for Newsday and Newsweek and executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Professor Janeway is the author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life(1999), and co-editor and contributor to A Story of Our Time: American Politics and the Press in an Era of Loss(1999). He received his B.A. from Harvard.
Office: 212-854-7537
Email: mj153@columbia.edu
Michael Schudson: history of American newspapers; history and sociology of news reporting; history of U.S. civic and political participation
Professor Schudson is the author of six books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory. His articles have appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Wilson Quarterly, and The American Prospect, and he has published "op-eds" in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Financial Times, and San Diego Union. He received a M.A. and a Ph.D.in sociology from Harvard.
Office: 212-854-8277
Email: ms3035@columbia.edu
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 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
Subject area: Immigration
Dale Maharidge: immigration, working-class Americans
Professor Maharidge can speak about topics relating to working class Americans, having written recently on wage and housing issues among the working class. His 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
Professor Ojito is the Newsday/David Laventhol Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism. She 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
Subject area: 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
Subject area: Issues in Journalism
Bill Grueskin: online/print and new media business models, stock market, welfare reform, race, the Internet economy
Professor Grueskin is the dean of academic affairs. Previously, he spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he served as a Page One editor, Page One deputy editor, and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online.
Office: 212-854-6550
Email:wg2183@columbia.edu
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 Morgan, associate dean of programs and prizes, 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
Navasky, 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
Michael Shapiro: issues in journalism; sports journalism
Professor Shapiro's work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of Japan: In the Land of the Broken Hearted; The Shadow in the Sun; Who Will Teach for America; Solomon’s Sword; The Last Good Season and Bottom of the Ninth. Shapiro received his M.A. at the University of Missouri.
Office: 212-854-3851
Email: ms106@columbia.edu
Subject area: Music, Film, and Popular Culture
David Hajdu: music, film, popular culture
Professor Hajdu writes a monthly column for The New Republic on music and popular culture. He was formerly the general editor of Entertainment Weekly. He is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina; and The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.
Office: 212-854-0340
Email: dh2154@columbia.edu
Subject area: New Media
Sreenath Sreenivasan: new media; ethnic press; diversity & the press; South Asia
Sree is the dean of student affairs 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
Duy is the new media coordinator for the School. He is a writer, videographer, photographer and multimedia consultant. He has traveled to newsrooms internationally to provide consulting and training to multimedia journalists. Duy is a co-founder and the creative director of Resolutions Seven, a commercial, documentary and DVD production studio.
Office: 212-851-0791
Email: dnt3@columbia.edu
Subject area: Photojournalism
John Smock: photography, photojournalism
John Smock is a photojournalist based in New York City. He works as an adjunct professor at the Journalism School and for the Associated Press and SIPA Press, a photo agency with offices in New York and in Paris. His work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Paris Match, and Der Spiegel. In 2005 Smock was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship to the Middle East, where he assisted regional journalists and editors in developing visual components for their publications.
Cell: 917-687-0732
Email: jms129@columbia.edu
Subject area: Politics
Tom Edsall: American politics
Edsall, 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
Professor Friedman 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. He is the director of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. He 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
Todd Gitlin: media, ethics in journalism, American politics
Professor Gitlin has written 12 books, chiefly on media and recent America. He is online regularly at TPMcafe.com and CJR.org. He received his B.A. from Harvear, his m.A. from Michigan and his Ph.D. in sociology from Berkeley. He was a political activist in the 1960s.
Office: 212-854-8124
Email: tg2058@columbia.edu
Michael Janeway: political history; politics
Michael Janeway is a professor of journalism and the arts. He has been a reporter for Newsday and Newsweek and executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Professor Janeway is the author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life(1999), and co-editor and contributor to A Story of Our Time: American Politics and the Press in an Era of Loss(1999). He received his B.A. from Harvard.
Office: 212-854-7537
Email: mj153@columbia.edu
Michael Schudson: history of American newspapers; history and sociology of news reporting; history of U.S. civic and political participation
Professor Schudson is the author of six books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory. His articles have appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Wilson Quarterly, and The American Prospect, and he has published "op-eds" in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Financial Times, and San Diego Union. He received a M.A. and a Ph.D.in sociology from Harvard.
Subject area: Religion
Samuel Freedman: media ethics, education, religion
Freedman, 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
Ari Goldman: religion and the media
Professor Goldman 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
Subject area: Science
Marguerite Holloway: science journalism
Professor Holloway 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
Professor Weiner 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
Subject area: Social Issues
Helen Benedict: literature of nonfiction, literary journalism
Professor Benedict 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
Josh Friedman: humanitarian issues, international and American politics
Professor Friedman 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. He is director of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. 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
Dale Maharidge: immigration, working-class Americans
Maharidge, 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 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
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