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- Professor Emerita Columbia Journalism School Correspondent NPR
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- Assistant Director, Broadcast and Multimedia Technology
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- Executive Editor at Rest of World, New York
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Expertise: International Affairs Religion Writing
Ari L. Goldman has taught at the journalism school since 1993. He is the director of the school's Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. The Scripps Program has enabled Professor Goldman to take students in his "Covering Religion" seminars on funded study-tours abroad during spring break. In the past, his class has visited India, Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. To learn more about his most recent trip to India visit his class blog (link is external).
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- Vice President and Director of Programs, Endeavor Foundation
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- Professor of Professional Practice
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- Director of Admission and Financial Aid
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- Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs
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- Associate Director of Student Life
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- Director, Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program
- Professional Programs
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- Associate Dean, Alumni & Development
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- Associate Professor
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Daniel Alarcón began working as a journalist in 2004, first in print for Latin American outlets such as Etiqueta Negra, and later for American and European publications including Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, El País, and Granta, where he was named a Contributing Editor in 2010. In 2012, he co-founded Radio Ambulante, a groundbreaking Spanish language podcast, the first of its kind covering Latin America with long-form narrative radio journalism. Under his leadership, Radio Ambulante (link is external) has reported stories from all over the region, and partnered with outlets like Public Radio International and BBC Mundo to reach audiences across the US and worldwide.
Alarcón's long-form journalism has included deeply reported pieces focusing mainly on Peru, the country where he was born, with topics ranging from the rise of the new nationalist left, the book piracy industry, and the emerging democracy inside Lima's most notorious prison, Lurigancho. This last piece, "All Politics is Local (link is external)," was published in Harper's in 2012, and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award that year.
Alarcón began his career as a fiction writer. His first short story, "City of Clowns," appeared in The New Yorker in 2003, and HarperCollins published his first collection, "War by Candlelight," two years later. His first novel, "Lost City Radio," was published in 2007, named a Best Book of the Year by critics across the country, and eventually translated into over a dozen languages. "At Night We Walk in Circles," his most recent novel, was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award.
Alarcón graduated from Columbia University in 1999 with a BA in Anthropology; he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 2004. In 2012-13, Alarcón joined the University of California Berkeley's Graduate Journalism School as an Investigative Reporting Fellow. In 2021, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.
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- Chief of Staff
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- Partner, Brunswick Group, Former Wall Street Journal Reporter and Bureau Chief, New York
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- National Media Writer, Associated Press
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- Professor of Journalism Dean Emeritus
- Staff Writer at the New Yorker
Expertise: International Affairs Investigative Reporting Politics Writing
Dean Steve Coll is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the author of eight books of nonfiction, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Between 1985 and 2005, he was a reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post. There he covered Wall Street, served as the paper's South Asia correspondent in New Delhi, and was the Post's first international investigative correspondent, based in London. He served as managing editor of the Post between 1998 and 2004. The following year, he joined The New Yorker, where he has written on international politics, American politics and national security, intelligence controversies and the media.
Coll is the author of "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (link is external)," published in 2004, for which he received an Overseas Press Club Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His 2008 book, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (link is external)," won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction in 2009 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His book "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (link is external)" won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Award as the best business book of 2012. His most recent book "Directorate S (link is external)," a follow-up to "Ghost Wars," received the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
He has four children and is married to Eliza Griswold, the journalist and poet. He has a B.A. in English and history from Occidental College.
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- Executive Assistant, Academic Affairs
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- Deputy Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism Associate Professor in Data Journalism
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- Administrative Manager, Ira a. Lipman Center
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- Associate Director, Financial Aid and Admissions
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- Assistant Dean of Part - Time Students and International Programs
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- Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism Leonard Tow Professor
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- Director, Creative Research, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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- Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
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- SVP, the Grio Former Executive CNN, NBC Documentary Filmmaker
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- Is Director of the Master of Science Data Journalism Program at the Journalism School at Columbia University in New York
- Professor of Professional Practice
Expertise: Data International Affairs Investigative Reporting
Giannina Segnini (link is external) is Director of the Master of Science Data Journalism Program at the Journalism School at Columbia University in New York.
Until February 2014, Segnini headed a team of journalists and computer engineers at La Nacion, Costa Rica's newspaper. The team was fully dedicated to unfold investigative stories by gathering, analyzing and visualizing public databases. Her team processed the data and developed the interactive application (link is external) for the OffshoreLeaks (link is external) project, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (link is external) (ICIJ) in 2013. She also partakes actively in the ICIJ's Panama Papers (link is external)project.
Giannina Segnini (link is external) is Director of the Master of Science Data Journalism Program at the Journalism School at Columbia University in New York.
Until February 2014, Segnini headed a team of journalists and computer engineers at La Nacion, Costa Rica's newspaper. The team was fully dedicated to unfold investigative stories by gathering, analyzing and visualizing public databases. Her team processed the data and developed the interactive application (link is external) for the OffshoreLeaks (link is external) project, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (link is external) (ICIJ) in 2013. She also partakes actively in the ICIJ's Panama Papers (link is external)project.
More than fifty criminal cases against politicians, businessmen and public officials originated by its revelations were pursued by law-enforcement in Costa Rica, the United Kingdom, France, Finland and the United States, including two former presidents of Costa Rica who were found guilty of corruption charges.
Segnini has been an ICIJ's active member since 2007 and member of its board of advisers since 2015. Segnini is also a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the Global Investigative Journalism Network (link is external) (GIJN), Global Editors Network (link is external)(GEN), Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad (link is external) (IPYS) and the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation
Her work has garnered the Maria Moors Cabot Award (2014), the Excellence Award from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (2013), the Spanish Ortega y Gasset Prize (2005), the award for Best Journalistic Investigation of a Corruption Case for Latin America and the Caribbean (2005, 2006 and 2009), the highest Costa Rican award in journalism, the Pío Víquez Prize (2013) and the Jorge Vargas Gene Award, Costa Rica's National Journalism Award (2000, 2003 and 2004), among others.
Giannina Segnini has also trained hundreds of journalists at leading media outlets in various countries around the World such as O Globo and Folha de São Paulo in Brazil, The Sun, The Sunday Times and the Times in the United Kingdom, El País in Spain, Leading European Newspapers Alliance (LENA), all media outlets in Timor-Leste, Kiev Post in Ukraine, Moscow and Orenburg in Russia, Revista Semana and El Tiempo in Colombia, El Nacional and Cadena Capriles in Venezuela, El Mercurio and MEGA in Chile, El Periódico and Siglo XXI in Guatemala, La Prensa in Panama, among others.
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- Public Affairs Television, "Facing the Truth With Bill Moyers" ( Link Is External )
- Public Affairs Television, Bill Moyers, "After the War, " "the Home Front, " "Beyond Hate, " "Amazing Grace" ( Link Is External )
GOLD BATON ABC News, "Nightline: South Africa" (link is external)
Golda Arthur is an audio producer, reporter and editor. Over the course of her 25-year career in journalism, she has edited and reported on breaking news, produced long-form documentaries and series, and led teams to create award-winning podcasts. Her work has been heard on the CBC, BBC and NPR.
Her roots are in news: she began her career in audio at CBC Radio in Canada, where she was a reporter and producer. She went on to work for the BBC World Service in London, producing and then editing Newshour, the network's flagship news program for 12 years, working on breaking news, field productions, and documentaries. In New York, where she is now based, she was an editor and producer for Marketplace, and senior producer for the award-winning technology podcast, Codebreaker. She moved from radio to podcasting in 2017, working for Vox Media, where she co-wrote and produced Land of the Giants: the Rise of Amazon, the first in a multi-year series on the power of tech companies. Moving further into tech journalism, she was also executive producer of Reset, a technology news show at Vox, before moving on to become supervising producer of Today, Explained. She is now an independent journalist and showrunner.
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- Co - Founder and President of Telos
Gregory Khalil is the co-founder and President of Telos (link is external), a Washington D.C.-based non-profit that equips American leaders and their communities to better engage seemingly intractable conflict. Much of Telos' work has centered on the role of faith leaders and culture shapers in America's relationship to Israel/Palestine and the broader Middle East. Prior to founding Telos, Greg was a legal and communications adviser to Palestinian leaders on peace negotiations with Israel. Greg is also a founding member and chair of the board of directors of Narrative 4, a global non-profit that seeks to use story and media to cultivate empathy across divides. He has lectured internationally and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Review of Faith & International Affairs. Greg is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and Yale Law School.
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- Garbedian Professor of Journalism Emeritus, Director, Spencer Fellowship Program
Expertise: International Affairs Writing
Howard W. French is a career foreign correspondent and global affairs writer and the author of five books, including three works of non-fiction, a work of documentary photography and a book from Norton Liveright about Africa and the birth of modernity.
He worked as a French-English translator in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in the early 1980s, and taught English literature for several years at the University of Abidjan. His career in journalism began as a freelance reporter for The Washington Post and other publications in West Africa. He joined The New York Times in 1986, and worked as a metropolitan reporter with the newspaper for three years, and then from 1990 to 2008 reported overseas for The Times as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. During this time, he was twice the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award, and his work has received numerous other awards.
From 2005 to 2008, alongside his correspondence for The Times, French was a weekly columnist on global affairs for the International Herald Tribune.
His most recent non-fiction book, titled "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War," was published by Norton/Liveright in October 2021.
His immediate previous book, "Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power," was published by Knopf in March 2017, was widely reviewed and featured by The Guardian and other publications as one of its notable books of the season.
He is the author, previously, of "China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa," published by Knopf in May 2014. China's Second Continent was named one of 100 Notable Books of 2014 by The New York Times, and was cited by The Economist, The Guardian and Foreign Affairs and several other publications as one of the best books of 2014.
He is also the author of "A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which was named non-fiction book of the year by several newspapers.
His book of documentary photography, "Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life," was published in 2012 (Homa & Sekey). It was produced in collaboration with the Chinese poet and novelist, Qiu Xiaolong. The photography from this project has figured in solo and group exhibitions on three continents and has been acquired in both museums and private collections.
French was a 2011-12 fellow of the Open Society Foundations. Other awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and since leaving the New York Times, he has also written occasional articles that newspaper, as well as for Atlantic magazine, Guardian Longreads, the Wall Street Journal (book reviews), The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum and other publications.
French speaks French, Chinese, Spanish and Japanese.
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- Bloomberg Professor of Business
- Bloomberg Professor of Journalism Emeritus
- Professor
James B. Stewart is the Bloomberg professor of business journalism. He teaches in the business section of the M.A. program. He is the author of eleven books, including the national best-seller, "DisneyWar," an account of Michael Eisner's tumultuous reign at America's best known entertainment company. He is also the author of national bestsellers "Den of Thieves," about Wall Street in the 80s, "Blind Eye," an investigation of the medical profession, and "Blood Sport," about the Clinton White House. "Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction," was inspired by his classes at Columbia. "Heart of a Soldier," named the best non-fiction book of 2002 by Time magazine, recounts the remarkable life of Rick Rescorla, a victim in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. His most recent book is "Tangled Web."
Besides teaching at Columbia, Stewart writes the "Common Sense" column for the Business Day section of The New York Times. He contributes regularly to The New Yorker and was formerly "Page One" Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Stewart is the recipient of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash and the insider trading scandal. He is also the winner of the George Polk award and two Gerald Loeb awards. "Blind Eye" was the winner of the 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award given annually by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2005, "DisneyWar" was named a finalist for the first annual Financial Times/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award.
Stewart is a graduate of Harvard Law School and DePauw University. He was born and attended public schools in Quincy, Illinois.
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- Assistant Director, Human Resources
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- Dean & Henry R. Luce Professor
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- Director, Broadcast and Multimedia Technology
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- Director, Digital Forensics Initiative
Judith Matloff has written about international affairs for 40 years, specializing in areas of turmoil. She is an author of four non-fiction books, and her essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal.
Matloff started out in the 1980s as a reporter for the Mexico City News covering political upheaval in that region. She then spent a decade at Reuters reporting across Europe and Africa and went on to head the Africa and Moscow bureaus of the Christian Science Monitor. Stories included the demise of apartheid, various wars and the rise of Vladimir Putin.
Matloff's latest book, "How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need," is a manual for pretty much every danger a journalist can encounter. She earlier published "No Friends But the Mountains," which explores the link between conflict and geography, "Fragments of a Forgotten War," about Angola's war and "Home Girl," which chronicled a Harlem Street.
Matloff is the senior safety advisor of the university's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She has pioneered safety protocols and training for media around the world. Clients have included NBC, the United Nations, Society of Professional Journalists, BRITDOC, Magnum, State Department, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, International Women's Media Foundation and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Matloff has a B.A. from Harvard. Her work has won fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Fulbright Program (twice in Mexico) and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University).
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- Program Coordinator, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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- Director, Professional Programs
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- Trainer and News Content Advisor
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- Director, Alumni Relations
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- Financial Enterprise Editor for the Wall Street Journal
Ken Brown is the financial enterprise editor for The Wall Street Journal. In that role he oversees investigations and special projects on topics of deep interest to Journal readers. Ken has years of experience in financial investigations, including launching the Journal's award-winning coverage of the $4 billion financial fraud involving Malaysia's government-investment fund 1MDB, one of the biggest thefts in history.
Before his current role, Ken was the editor of Heard on the Street, the Journal's home for commentary and analysis on business, markets and the economy. Ken revamped the Heard's coverage to focus on global issues, improved mobile presentation and boosted traffic. He introduced multi-part series on urgent topics and long-form Heards, leveraging the expertise of his global staff, which is based in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong and London.
Ken returned to New York in 2016 after nearly five years in Asia where he ran the Journal's Hong Kong bureau and its regional finance and markets coverage. In Asia, Ken oversaw coverage of China's financial system and in 2013, led the Journal's series China's Rising Risks. The series highlighted the potential problems caused by China's rapidly rising debt and distorted economy well before these became global financial concerns. Ken also ran coverage of the 2014 Hong Kong protests and the hiring of Chinese princelings by western investment banks. >
Kim Barker is a reporter on the investigations team at The New York Times. Until January 2018 she was a reporter on the metro desk, focusing on affordable housing in New York City. Before joining The Times in mid-2014, Ms. Barker was an investigative reporter at the online nonprofit ProPublica, writing mainly about campaign finance. In late 2009 and early 2010, Ms. Barker was the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she focused on Pakistan and Afghanistan and United States policy. She was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009. Her book, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan," published by Doubleday in 2011, later became the basis for the movie "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." Before joining the Tribune, Ms. Barker worked for The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., and The Times in northwest Indiana. She has won investigative-reporting awards from organizations such as Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Best of the West.
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- Editor - in - Chief
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- Editor in Chief, Apple News
Leslie Wayne is an award-winning former business reporter for The New York Times specializing in financial investigations. In more than two decades at The Times, she produced more than 1,500 bylines and is currently a contributor to The Times. She has written on illicit finance, Wall Street and the economy and was a member of The Times' campaign finance team in Presidential election from 1996 to 2008.
Wayne worked as a senior writer for The International Consortium of Investigative Reporters in Washington, D.C. in 2013 and 2014 and was the lead reporter on "Lux Leaks," which exposed Luxembourg's secret corporate tax breaks. In 2015, Lux Leaks earned a George Polk award, a New York Press Club award and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. She was also a senior editor at 100Reporters.org from 2010 to 2012.
She has reported from Times's bureaus in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London and Paris, and from other global spots for ICIJ. Ms. Wayne has an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia. She got her start in journalism at The University of Michigan, where she was an editor on The Michigan Daily.
Wayne has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS Radio, Bloomberg Television as well as in Times' podcasts and videos. She also worked at The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and at The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2010, she was named the inaugural Donald W. Reynolds visiting professor in business journalism at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2012. Wayne is a five-time winner of The New York Times "Publisher's Award," and winner of the "Best of Bagehot" award honoring the best work from a Bagehot Fellow.
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- Publisher, the San Francisco Public Press, San Francisco
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- Director, DuPont / Professional Prizes Adjunct Associate Professor
- Director, DuPont Awards / Professional Prizes Adjunct Associate Professor
- Professional Prizes
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- Development and Alumni Administrator
LynNell Hancock is a reporter and writer specializing in education and child and family policy issues, who has taught journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism since 1993. She is the director of the Spencer Fellowship for Education Journalism, a program that supports the work of mid-career journalists to study at Columbia and produce significant works of journalism on education topics.
In addition to contributing to Newsweek, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and The New York Times, she served on staff of The Village Voice, the New York Daily News, and Newsweek where she covered national and local education issues. She has served on the National Advisory Board of Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy and Columbia University's Institute for Child and Family Policy.
Hancock is the author of "Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock" (2002) and contributed to "America's Mayor" (2005) and "The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice" (2000).
Hancock holds an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.S. in Journalism, both from Columbia.
Listen to Prof. Hancock on BlogTalkRadio. (link is external)
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- Director, Brown Institute for Media Innovation Professor of Journalism, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
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- Author, Contributing Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning, Former Executive, CNN Worldwide NBC News Newsweek, Jury Chair
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- Senior Associate Dean of Student Life
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- Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs & HR
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- Program Director, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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- Program Manager, Academic Centers
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Expertise: Audio Broadcast
Naomi teaches audio journalism courses and drops in to other classes to help with voice coaching. She is passionate about the power of audio and loves seeing students master audio journalism.
During her public media career, she has been a factchecker, reporter, managing editor, broadcast and podcast ("Grapple") host, news director, and program director.
She is an editor at WAMU/DCist, Washington, D.C.'s public radio station and local news site. She also helps the team at WKMS in Murray, KY with their podcast, "Middle of Everywhere." In the past, she has worked at WHYY (Philadelphia), WSHU (Fairfield, CT) and Consumer Reports magazine. Before becoming a journalist, was an environmental scientist, and a ranger for the National Park Service. Still has the hat.
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- Asst Professor, International Journalism / Director of Global Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
Nushin Rashidian is the co-founder of the news organization Cannabis Wire (link is external), and the co-author of the book A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition (The New Press, 2014). She serves as the research lead on the "Platforms and Publishers (link is external)" project at Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
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- Chairman, Schibsted Media Group
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- Documentary Filmmaker, Former Executive, PBS
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- Assistant Professor of Journalism Director, Simon and June Li Center of International Journalism
Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose work grapples with the human costs of war.
She is an investigative reporter for both the New York Times and New York Times Magazine, a Carnegie Fellow, and the Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she also leads the Li Center for Global Journalism.
Her investigations for the New York Times, the PBS series FRONTLINE, and BuzzFeed's Investigations team have prompted widespread policy impact from Washington to Kabul and won more than a dozen awards. They include a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, a National Magazine Award for Public Interest Journalism; a National Magazine Award for Reporting; a Polk Award for Military Reporting; the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award for Magazine Reporting and the Roy Rowan Award for Investigative Reporting; the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism; the John Seigenthaler Courage In Journalism Award; the Deadline Club Award for Independent Digital Reporting; the Deadline Club Award for Magazine Investigative Reporting; SAJA's Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia; and other honors.
Her multi-part series in the New York Times, "The Civilian Casualty Files," was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. The project was the culmination of more than five years of Khan's reporting, including ground investigation as the sites of more than 100 civilian casualty incidents in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, more than 1,300 formerly secret military records she obtained in a legal battle with the Pentagon, and scores of interviews with military officials, pilots, strike cell teams, intelligence informants, local officials, airstrike survivors, and their families.
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- Chief Administrative Officer and Associate Dean of Administrative Affairs
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- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Alumni Board
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- Director, Ira a. Lipman Center
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- Director, Knight - Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economics
- Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism Director, Knight - Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism
Expertise: Business & Economics
Robert Smith is a host for NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the global economy is affecting our lives.
Prior to Planet Money, Smith was a national and New York City correspondent for NPR, covering a variety of breaking news stories, from Hurricane Katrina to the "Miracle on the Hudson" landing of US Airways Flight 1549.
Smith's career in radio started at KPCW in his hometown of Park City, Utah. He continued his passion for radio at the campus radio station at Reed College in Portland, Ore., before moving on to work at public radio stations in Portland, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
Sheila Coronel began reporting in the Philippines during the twilight of the Marcos dictatorship, when she wrote for the underground opposition press and later for mainstream magazines and newspapers. As Marcos lost power and press restrictions eased, she reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement and the election of Corazon Aquino as president.
In 1989, Coronel and her colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Under Coronel's leadership, the Center became the leading investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia. In 2001, the Center's reporting led to the fall of President Joseph Estrada. In 2003, Coronel won Asia's premier prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Coronel has written and edited more than a dozen books on the Philippines, freedom of information and investigative journalism. She has trained journalists around the world and written investigative reporting textbooks for journalists in Southeast Asia and the Balkan region. She speaks frequently at international investigative reporting conferences and writes about global investigative journalism.
Coronel joined the faculty of the Journalism School in 2006, when she was named director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. In 2011, she received one of Columbia University's highest honors, the Presidential Teaching Award.
Coronel believes we are in a pivotal moment for investigative reporting, one that is ripe with opportunity but also fraught with challenges and threats. Coronel's work outside of the Journalism School reflects her desire to build strong institutions that support free and independent reporting in a turbulent media landscape. She is chair of the Media Development Investment Fund board. She also sits on the boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Columbia Journalism Review, ProPublica and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is also a member and former board chair of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Her recent work is on the populist Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and police abuses in the war on drugs.
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- Assistant Director, Admissions
Expertise: Arts & Culture Education Ethics Religion Writing
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A former columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the nine acclaimed books, and is currently at work on his tenth, which will be about Hubert Humphrey, Civil Rights, and the 1948 Democratic convention.
Freedman's previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life (2005); and Letters To A Young Journalist (2006); and Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013).
With his colleague Kerry Donahue, Freedman co-produced a radio documentary and authored a companion book, both entitled Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz and How it Transformed The New York Times. The documentary and book were released in conjunction with World AIDS Day on December 1, 2015, and since then the documentary has been broadcast on more than 500 NPR member stations. Most recently, Freedman wrote Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: The Journey From Stage to Screen, the companion book to the film adaptation of August Wilson's classic play.
Small Victories was a finalist for the 1990 National Book Award and The Inheritance was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Upon This Rock won the 1993 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Four of Freedman's books have been listed among The New York Times' Notable Books of the Year.
Jew vs. Jew won the National Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2001 and made the Publishers Weekly Religion Best-Sellers list. As a result of the book, Freedman was named one of the "Forward Fifty" most important American Jews in the year 2000 by the weekly Jewish newspaper The Forward.
Freedman was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1981 through 1987. From 2004 through 2008, he wrote the paper's "On Education" column, winning first prize in the Education Writers Association's annual competition in 2005. From 2006 through 2016, Freedman wrote the "On Religion" column, receiving the Goldziher Prize for Journalists in 2017 for a series of columns about Muslim-Americans that had been published over the preceding six years.
Freedman has contributed to numerous other publications and websites, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Daily Beast, New York, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, Salon, Slate, Chicago Sun-Times, Tablet, The Forward, Ha'aretz, The Undefeated, The Root, and BeliefNet.
Freedman was named the nation's outstanding journalism educator in 1997 by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2012, he received Columbia University's coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Freedman's class in book-writing has developed more than 100 authors, editors, and agents, and it has been featured in Publishers Weekly and the Christian Science Monitor. He is a board member of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Awards and member of the Journalism Advisory Council of Religion News Service.
Freedman holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- Director of the Publishing Course and Professional Programs
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean
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- Chairman and Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times Group
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- Assistant Director of Career Services
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- ABC News and Koppel Communications, "the Koppel Report
- AM, San Francisco, California, for Coverage of the Earthquake
- Public Affairs Television and Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc., "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyers" ( Link Is External )
- SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD
SILVER BATON HBO, "America Undercover: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," and "The Celluloid Closet" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KREM-TV, Spokane, Washington, "The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring" (link is external)
SILVER BATON NBC News, "Dateline: Class Photo" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Norman Corwin and Mary Beth Kirchner for "Fifty Years After 14 August" on NPR (link is external)
SILVER BATON NOVA/WGBH-TV, "NOVA: Plague Fighters" on PBS (link is external)
SILVER BATON NPR and Anne Garrels for coverage of the former Soviet Union (link is external)
SILVER BATON Public Broadcasting Service, "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Radio Smithsonian for "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" on PRI (link is external)
SILVER BATON ABC News, "20/20: The Gift of Life" (link is external)
SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of Bosnia (link is external)
SILVER BATON ETC Films, Barbara Kopple, "Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson" on NBC (link is external)
GOLD BATON Fred Friendly, winner for his lifetime contribution to the ethics and practice of journalism
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, "In the Shadow of the Wall" (link is external)
SILVER BATON M.W. Productions, KQED "Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union" (link is external)
SILVER BATON PBS, "Move Over: Women and the '92 Campaign" (link is external)
SILVER BATON PBS, "The Pacific Century" (link is external)
SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Made in China" (link is external)
SILVER BATON David Grubin Productions and KERA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "The American Experience: LBJ" on PBS (link is external)
SILVER BATON HBO, "Abortion: Desperate Choices" (America Undercover) (link is external)
SILVER BATON KCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Erin's Life" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KSTP-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota, "Who's Watching the Store" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KTTV-TV, Los Angeles, California, "Cops on Trial: The Rodney King Case" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana "Louisiana Boys" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Lucky Duck Productions and Nickelodeon, "Nick News: W/5" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Exit Films, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Near Death" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Critical Choices: America's Health Care Crisis" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Byron Harris and WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "Other People's Money" (link is external)
SILVER BATON CBS, Television and Radio Coverage of China (link is external)
SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of China (link is external)
SILVER BATON Gardner Films and WETA, Washington, D.C., "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land" on PBS (link is external)
SILVER BATON KCET-TV, Los Angeles, California, "For the Sake of Appearances," and "Expecting Miracles" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Kentucky Educational Television, "On Our Own Land" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Maryland Public Television, Owings Mills, Maryland, "Other Faces of AIDS" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WJXT, Jacksonville, Florida, "Crack Crisis: A Cry for Action" (link is external)
GOLD BATON Gold Baton: CBS News, "60 Minutes" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Looking for Lincoln" (link is external)
SILVER BATON NBC News, "A Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WCAX-TV, Burlington, Vermont, "The Politics of Pollution" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WCVB-TV, Needham, Massachusetts, "We the Jury" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN, for investigative reporting by Erin Hayes (link is external)
SILVER BATON WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C. "Thurgood Marshall: The Man" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey, "For the I-Team" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Florence Films, "Huey Long" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KMOV-TV, St. Louis, Missouri, "Sauget: City of Shame" (link is external)
SILVER BATON NBC News, Robert Bazell, For Coverage of the AIDS epidemic (link is external)
SILVER BATON Pam Zekman and WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, For Investigative Reporting (link is external)
SILVER BATON Chris-Craft Television Productions and Churchill Films, "Down for the Count--an Inside Look at Boxing" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "Climate of Death" (link is external)
SILVER BATON John Camp and WBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, For investigative reporting (link is external)
SILVER BATON KCTS-TV, Seattle, Washington and Face to Face Productions, "Rape: Face to Face" (link is external)
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "The War Within" (link is external)
SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "The Most Dangerous Game: Nuclear Face-off in Europe" (link is external)
SILVER BATON NBC News, "News Overnight" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Richard Threlkeld, Status Reports on "ABC World News Tonight" (link is external)
SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: Jon Alpert and NBC News, "American Survival" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Terry Drinkwater, Cancer Reports on "CBS Evening News" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Killing Crime: A Police Cop-Out" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Unit 5: The Chicago Police Investigations" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WSMV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, "Innocent Shame: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse" (link is external)
SILVER BATON WTCN-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Herpes is Forever" (link is external)
SILVER BATON Gannett Broadcasting Group, "Epidemic! Why Your Kid is On Drugs"
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