Arlene Notoro Morgan

Arlene Notoro Morgan oversees the administration of Columbia School of Journalism’s many prestigious prizes and professional development workshops. She is the co-editor of “The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity,” a compilation textbook, DVD, and website based on award-winning stories from the school's 10-year-long workshop on race and ethnicity.

In 2007, Morgan oversaw the launch of the new Punch Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program, a performance challenge-based training program for news executives. She also started the Spencer Fellowships for Education Reporting and supervises a Continuing Education series of workshops for professionals at Columbia and online.

Morgan joined the Columbia staff in August 2000 after a 31-year career at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she served as an assistant managing editor for readership, hiring and staff development. In addition to her expertise on issues about covering and hiring for diversity, Arlene—a certified Maynard Institute diversity trainer, as well as a Zenger-Miller management trainer—developed an expertise in newspaper credibility when she served as The Inquirer's liaison to the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Credibility project. She conducts workshops on diversity for news organizations and journalism programs around the world, using the Maynard fault lines approach, along with examples of outstanding reporting from “The Authentic Voice” book.

In 1995, Morgan was honored with the first Knight Ridder Excellence in Diversity Award for her work to diversify the Inquirer's staff and for her leadership in fostering diversity issues throughout the former Knight Ridder newspapers, then corporate owner of The Inquirer.

A graduate of Temple University in her Philadelphia hometown, Morgan has worked with students in lectures at the University of Hong Kong, The University of Barcelona and several schools in New Zealand. She also serves as a consultant on the coverage of race for newsrooms across the country. Morgan first worked with The School of Journalism when she was a fellow in 1996-1997 at the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Center.

A member of the American Society of News Editors, Morgan serves on several journalism school advisory boards, including her alma mater, Temple, the Manship School at LSU, and the journalism program at SUNY, Stonybrook. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Kaiser Health News Service, the Health and Science desk of WHYY, an NPR station in Philadelphia, and the Carter Center's Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowships.