Adjunct Faculty

Walt Bogdanich is the Pulitzer-Prize winning assistant editor for The New York Times Investigations Desk. Before joining The Times in 2001, he was an investigative producer for “60 Minutes” on CBS and before that for ABC News. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York and Washington. Mr. Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 with a degree in political science. He received his master’s in journalism from Ohio State University in 1976. Mr. Bogdanich has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes. In 2008, he shared the award in investigative reporting with Jake Hooker for “Toxic Pipeline,” articles exposing toxic ingredients in Chinese-made products. In 2005, he won in national reporting for his series, “Death on the Tracks.” He received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The Wall Street Journal on substandard medical laboratories. He has also won four George Polk Awards.

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Thor Neureiter is a veteran independent documentary producer and director whose work is focused on contemporary issues concerning U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics. His first independent feature documentary, which he directed, shot, and edited, “Disaster Capitalism (link is external)” will be released in 2017. The film was selected to the prestigious HotDocs Forum and has received support from The Bertha Foundation, The Film Collaborative, Documentary Australia Foundation, and Screen Australia.

During his career Thor has produced films for People & Power on Al Jazeera English and worked on programming for FRONTLINE on PBS, including “Showdown with Iran,” “News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin,” “The Last Abortion Clinic,” and “The O.J. Verdict.” He has also worked extensively for HBO and began his career working for Ken Burns/Florentine Films in 1999 as an Assistant Editor on the 10-part series “Jazz.” His first documentary as a producer, “Miracle in New York: The Story of the ’69 Mets,” was awarded a 2010 New York Emmy Award. Thor holds an M.A. Politics degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. While enrolled in the M.A. program, he began advising journalism students at Columbia which eventually lead to his current position of Director, Video Journalism at the school.

Tom Weber is a contributing editor at TIME. He is a past executive editor of TIME, where he directed the magazine’s longform journalism, as well as a former managing editor of Newsweek. As a technology reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Weber was named the paper’s first Internet columnist in 1999. He went on to become a bureau chief and a founding editor of the Journal’s Saturday edition.

A native of Michigan, Weber began his career covering local news and politics at the Daily Item of Clinton, Mass. He has taught journalism as a Ferris Professor at Princeton University and as director of the magazine program at New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute. Weber is a graduate of Princeton University. He serves as president of the board of trustees for The Daily Princetonian, the nonprofit independent student newspaper.

Thomas Xenakis is a film and video editor and post production supervisor for broadcast and digital. He currently works for the CBS Evening News. He has a long experience editing commercials, films, promos and documentaries in multiple workflows, languages and delivery formats.

Terry Parris Jr. is an engagement journalist with more than 15 years of experience working with newsrooms, libraries, universities, community groups and the public on ambitious storytelling projects. He’s dedicated to cultivating community-centered storytelling and fostering meaningful engagement with the subjects and communities he works in. He currently serves as Public Square Editor for Headway, an initiative by The New York Times.

Before joining Headway, Terry was the Engagement Director at THE CITY where he launched several of its most impactful — and award winning — community-driven projects including The Open Newsroom, Civic Newsroom and MISSING THEM. Terry served as a deputy editor at ProPublica, where he was part of the team that was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He currently teaches at Queens College (City University of New York) and advises students at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Additionally, Terry is pursuing a master's degree in Library and Information Science at the Pratt Institute, focusing on public engagement and programming.

Tami Luhby, '97 M.S., is a senior writer at CNN, where she covers health care policy, the safety net and income inequality.

Before joining CNN in 2008, she covered personal finance for Newsday. Prior to that, she worked at Crain's New York Business and American Banker. She also worked as a metro reporter at the Home News Tribune and at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey.

In her spare time, Tami does triathlons and marathons with her husband. A Bronx native who still lives there, Tami is also a graduate of Columbia College.

Tamar Lewin was a reporter at The New York Times for more than three decades, mostly on the national desk. During that time, she covered many different beats, including higher education, legal affairs and assisted reproduction, writing a mix of daily news stories and multi-part series – among them, a look at the growing practice of embryo freezing and the wrenching questions it can raise, and a report from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on American universities' sudden race to create overseas branches. Whether the topic is transracial adoption or why women outpace men in education, she is drawn to stories that illustrate how social issues play out at an individual level.

Lewin was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a project on how race is lived in America: her story followed a trio of close friends – one African-American, one white, and one half Hispanic, half Jewish – in suburban New Jersey, as their tight middle-school friendship dissolved along racial lines in high school, buffeted by the social expectations surrounding them.

Prior to joining The Times, she worked at The Bergen Record (NJ) and was the founding Washington bureau chief, and then managing editor, of the National Law Journal. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School.

Tali Woodward is the Editor in Chief at The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that covers gun violence in America. She sets editorial strategy, guides deep investigations, and edits many of The Trace’s feature stories. Since starting at The Trace in 2018, she has coached reporters and editors on producing memorable public interest journalism, including investigations into the National Rifle Association and narrative features on the effects of shootings. Prior to joining The Trace, Woodward was the director of the Master of Arts program at Columbia Journalism School, where she taught courses on reporting, interviewing, and longform writing. Before that, Woodward was a reporter at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, where she covered education, local politics, and health care, and wrote for magazines including Newsweek, New York, and National Geographic. Woodward earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in science journalism from Columbia University, where she continues to teach.

Stuart Karle is a partner and general counsel of North Base Media, a boutique firm that invests in media in emerging markets and technology that supports journalism. NBM has invested in journalism-focused companies in Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and South America. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Reuters News from 2011 through 2013, and for many years was the principal lawyer at Dow Jones & Company working on news-related issues for all Dow Jones publications, print and electronic and the general counsel of The Wall Street Journal. He is also an adjunct professor teaching media law at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 2009.

Steve Eder is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. He most recently reported on policing in America, sharing in the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for an investigative series on deadly traffic stops. He also was part of the team of Times journalists honored with the the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. At The Times, he has also served as an investigative sports reporter, covered the 2016 presidential campaign, and written extensively about the presidency of Donald J. Trump, among other subjects. Before joining The Times in 2012, he reported for the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and The Toledo (Ohio) Blade.

Steve Adler has led national and global newsrooms for more than two decades, most recently as editor-in-chief of Reuters.

A global advocate for free speech and journalism ethics, Adler is board chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a board member and immediate past chair at the Columbia Journalism Review.

Adler started his career as a local-government reporter at the Tampa Times and the Tallahassee Democrat. Later, he joined The American Lawyer and, in 1988, The Wall Street Journal. During his 16 years at the Journal, he worked as a reporter and editor, managing teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes. As deputy managing editor, he co-taught the ethics course required of all news employees. In 2005, he became editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek; during his five-year tenure, the magazine won over 100 major journalism awards.

In 2011, Adler was named editor-in-chief of Reuters and, over a decade, transformed it into a modern newsroom that excelled in investigative reporting, data journalism, and graphics. Under his leadership, Reuters won eight Pulitzer Prizes. In 2023, Adler won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award.

Adler is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom. Along with his wife, the novelist Lisa Grunwald, he co-edited three popular historical anthologies: Letters of the Century, Women's Letters and The Marriage Book.

Stephania Taladrid is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where she covers Latino communities across the United States. She has written on topics ranging from the 2020 Presidential election to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. For her reporting on the fall of Roe v. Wade, Taladrid was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won a Whiting Award in nonfiction, and was recognized as a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest.

In 2022, Taladrid reported and produced “American Scar,” a short documentary on the environmental implications of the border wall, which received a special mention from the jury at the film festival DOC NYC. She has also reported from Latin America and Spain, writing about the legacy of the Franco dictatorship, Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, and foreign affairs.

Taladrid grew up in Mexico, the United States, Spain, and France, and earned a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the magazine, she was a political speechwriter.

Sharon L. Lynch is an independent journalist most recently focused on humanitarian crises around the world. Previously, she served as deputy managing editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more than a decade, Professor Lynch worked as a business reporter and editor for Bloomberg News, where her work earned multiple awards during the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. She began her career as a statehouse reporter, editor, and national writer for The Associated Press and holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University.

Seyma Bayram, M.S. ‘19, is a Kurdish-American reporter with a background in print, radio and visual journalism. She was a 2023-2024 Spencer Education Fellow at Columbia Journalism School and the 2022-2023 Reflect America Fellow at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., where she reported for the climate and visuals desks and produced for All Things Considered. Her news photography has appeared in The Associated Press, CNN, The Washington Post and other outlets.

As a print reporter, Seyma covered race, violence against LGBTQ+ communities, gun legislation, the 2020 general election, abortion access and legacies of redlining and racism in urban planning for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio. She began her journalism career reporting on local government and criminal justice at an alt-weekly in Jackson, Mississippi. Her local reporting won awards from The Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and The Press Club of Cleveland, among others.

Before entering journalism, Seyma worked as a high school writing teacher, book editor and curator. She is from the Kurdish region of Turkey, and was raised in The Netherlands and upstate New York.

Sebastian is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. His work, which focuses on science and the natural environment,  can be found in Scientific American, Grist, Undark, Gothamist, Al Jazeera, Baltimore Brew and BBC. Sebastian teaches video storytelling at Columbia Journalism School and is a graduate of the program. He also teaches audio storytelling at Brooklyn College where he completed his undergraduate studies.

Gregory, the senior sports correspondent at TIME, has co-taught Columbia Journalism School’s Sports Reporting course—along with Professor Kelly Whiteside—since 2019. Sports Reporting offers students practical lessons on the ins-and-outs of covering games and personalities, while going in-depth on the critical issues dominating the athletics, on and off the field. Recent graduates of the class are now covering sports at outlets such as ESPN, the Wall Street Journal, Sporito, Front Office Sports, and the San Antonio Express-News.

Since joining TIME as a recent J-School graduate in 2002, Gregory has authored more than 30 sports cover stories for TIME, including profiles of influential athletes like Serena Williams, LeBron James, and Megan Rapinoe, and pieces about pressing issues in sports like the economic model of college sports, the professionalization of youth sports, and football safety. Gregory has covered eight Olympic Games for TIME, as well as multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours, and other major events. Gregory’s writing has been cited in the annual Best American Sports Writing anthology nine times. 

Gregory is a cross-platform contributor to TIME: digital video pieces with Kobe Bryant, Novak Djokovic and other athletic luminaries are among the most-viewed in TIME’s history.

A native and current resident of the Bronx, Gregory holds a B.A. in public policy from Princeton University, where he also played varsity basketball. He also holds an M.S. from the J-School.

Sean Campbell is an investigative journalist living in New York City. His stories focus on public health and gun violence, and have prompted action from members of Congress, change in the CDC, and contributed to changing Twitter's policy. 

Campbell's investigations have covered topics ranging from New York tax credits for businesses, to children being shot in Flint, Michigan, to nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. His pieces on disproportionate gunshot death rates in New York City sparked conversations about hospital trauma care, promises for action from local politicians, and discussion within the data journalism community on combining gun violence and health reporting. His interrogation of the "Craigslist" of gun sales formed the basis for a lawsuit against Armlist.com, and his pandemic reporting has spurred legislation by state lawmakers. 

He's won the Les Payne Award for Coverage on Communities of Color from the Society of Professional Journalists' Deadline Club and a Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation, among other recognitions. His feature work has been published by ProPublica, The Verge, BuzzFeed News and FiveThirtyEight, among other outlets. His short stories have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and Hayden's Ferry Review.

He holds BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida, an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and a master of science degree from Columbia Journalism School with a specialization in data journalism.

Sarah Carr has covered education for more than two decades for publications including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Hechinger Report and Slate. She has served as the Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, teaching a course on covering inequality through the lens of youth; and for five years she led Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project fellowship, spearheading collaborations with more than 30 editorial partners. Her reporting has won more than a dozen local and national awards. Past fellowship grants include the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, the O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism, and the Russell Sage Visiting Journalist fellowship.

Carr has also been editor of an investigative education reporting team at the Boston Globe, The Great Divide, and a staff writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Orleans Times Picayune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She is the author of “Hope Against Hope” (Bloomsbury, 2013), about New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, which was selected as a campus-wide read at Tulane University and Macalester College. She is on the board of directors of the national Education Writers Association.

Sarah Bellingham is a documentarian and freelance video journalist. She is currently in post-production on the feature documentary "People 4 Trump," a three-year collaboration with co-director Max Toomey. Sarah’s past documentary work includes HLN’s Inside with Chris Cuomo, HHMI’s Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds and HHMI’s The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory. Her freelance work has appeared on The Washington Post, Eurasianet, The Daily Beast and Food Network. She appeared on BBC News to report on the 2018 U.S. midterms.

Sarah graduated Middlebury College with high honors in International Studies specializing in Eastern Europe and Russia. After working in independent documentary in Boston, she attended Columbia Journalism School where received the Columbia Alumni Fund, Jonathan Maslow Endowed Scholarship Fund, UPS, Keene and Taishoff Scholarships. Following graduation, Sarah was awarded a Pulitzer Student Fellowship.

Sarah has working proficiency in both Russian and French. She has worked in the field wearing a bullet-proof vest, a ballgown and holy water—though not all at the same time.

Sara Ganim is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and former CNN investigative correspondent who regularly publishes in print and broadcast. A multi-platform reporter, Ganim has written for newspapers, cable television, audio, and documentaries and has won several of the industry’s top awards.

At age 24, she won a Pulitzer Prize for the Harrisburg Patriot-News for breaking and covering the investigation into former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of young boys.

Ganim then spent seven years at CNN, covering multiple beats, including federal government agencies, the rise of the anti-fascist movement in the U.S., the NCAA, and contaminated American drinking water.

In 2015, she won a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her investigative report exposing the low reading levels of some college athletes.

Since leaving CNN, Ganim has mostly worked in audio, developing, reporting and hosting several award-winning podcasts. Her most recent project was "Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story," produced by Dear Media. "Believable" was named one of The Atlantic’s top 25 podcasts of 2023.

In 2021, she launched a podcast with Advance Local and Meadowlark Media called "The Mayor of Maple Avenue," about the intersection of trauma and addiction and societal failures in the wake of the #meToo movement. The podcast won the Keystone Award for best podcast of 2024.
Ganim also created the podcast "Why Don’t We Know," which won the EWA’s public service award in 2020.

In 2020, she also made her first independent film, No Defense, which garnered film festival recognition. She has consulted or reported for several other films, including the Emmy-nominated films, Deadly Haze and Paterno.

Ganim is a prior recipient of Hearst, Loyola Law School and Columbia Spencer Education fellowships. Other recognitions include the the 2020 Education Writers Association public service award, 2012 National Sexual Violence Resource Center Visionary Voice Award, 2012 APME President’s Award, 2011 George Polk award, the 2011 Scripps-Howard award, 2012 American Society of News Editors for distinguished writing, 2011 Sidney Hillman’s Sidney Award, a 2010 Golden Quill and the 2010 Bar Association journalism award, 2008 Gannet Media Foundation multimedia award.

She is currently the journalist-in-residence at the University of Florida’s Brechner Center for Freedom of Information. She also serves as a member of the board of trustees at Lebanese American University.

She is a 2008 graduate of Penn State University.

Samir S. Patel is an editor, science writer and photographer. He is Editor-in-Chief of Atlas Obscura, and before that was Deputy Editor at Archaeology Magazine. His work has appeared in Nature, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Discover, and other publications. He has reported from all over the world — the South Pacific, India, Tanzania, Brazil, Australia, and more — and has covered a wide range of topics, from archaeology and climate, to art conservation and social justice.

Samir studied at Columbia in the dual-degree Earth and Environmental Science Journalism program and has an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a graduate degree from New York University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn.

Sally Herships is an award winning audio journalist.  Her bylines include the BBC, The New York Times and Marketplace. She’s been a frequent guest host at NPR’s daily economics podcast  The Indicator and covered the pandemic and New York’s embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo for NPR’s National Desk.  Her work covers a range of styles and beats and has won critical acclaim. Her 2011 investigation of the DOD’s failure to comply with its own tobacco pricing restrictions won a Third Coast Radio Impact Award and was an IRE finalist.  In 2016, her BBC documentary “As Many Leaves” was described by The Guardian as an "Emotional, wonderful listen," and was rated among the year’s top ten podcasts by Vulture.  In 2022, Sally hosted and co-executive produced “The Heist,” an investigative podcast series which revealed the failures of President Trump’s 2017 tax bill, racked up multiple awards and was honored as a Dupont Finalist.

Sally has been teaching for over a decade. In 2013, she founded the podcast school, Radio Boot Camp. She studied at Parsons School of Design, but in 2004, the kind folks at Radiolab took her in and taught her all things audio for which she is forever grateful.

Rosalind Adams is an investigative reporter for THE CITY. She was previously an investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News, and her work has also appeared in Barron’s, ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity and the Miami Herald.

Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American writer and journalist in New York City. Her writing on race and culture has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Elle, The Daily Beast, Glamour, Teen Vogue, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and WIRED. Her reporting has also been featured on major networks such as CNN. Omokha’s enterprise projects include Elle’s "America Redefined" and Vanity Fair’s "They Were Sons," which examine race in America and police violence against communities of color.

Omokha received an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School, where she graduated at the top of the 2020 class, receiving some of the institution's highest awards, including the Pulitzer Prize Traveling Fellowship, the Lynton Foundation Award in Book Writing and the Bill Campbell Award. During her time at the Journalism School, she served as co-president of the African Student Association, which spotlighted the intersection of journalism, press freedom and the African diaspora. Omokha previously worked in digital media for CNN, NBC and Viacom and served in AmeriCorps in 2013.

Omokha will be publishing "Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America," a Publishers Weekly top 10 highly anticipated fall book of history, in November 2024. 

Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. is the author of “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything (WWNorton, 2018) and "Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank" published by Norton, 2010. She has also written for The New York Times, Slate, The Daily Telegraph and several national magazines. Previously, she worked as a medical reporter for the London bureau of the Associated Press, and was the London bureau chief for Physician’s Weekly. She also serves as Writer in Residence at Yale School of Medicine, and a lecturer in the English Department at Yale College. She received an M.D. from Yale University, M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, M.P.H. from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996, she was a Reuter Foundation Fellow for Medical Journalists at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She is a 2011/2012 fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.

Rachel Quester is a senior producer for "The Daily," the audio news show from The New York Times. She joined the Times in the spring of 2017 as "The Daily" was just getting underway, helping to develop the show’s unique sound and approach to the biggest stories of the day. Her role on the team includes driving the show's political coverage for news and narrative storytelling, and producing breaking news and long-form episodes every week. Prior to joining the Times, she produced podcasts at NPR and the E.W. Scripps Washington Bureau.

Peter Leonard is an audio engineer, composer, and sound designer for narrative podcasts, as well as a budding educator in audio. Currently, he works at Gimlet (a Spotify Originals studio), where his sound designing, mixing and composition credits include "StartUp," "Science Vs," "How To Save A Planet," "The Cut On Tuesdays" and "Without Fail." Prior to Gimlet, Peter was at Vox Media, where he developed podcasting technical infrastructure at their DC headquarters and went on to work on shows such as "The Weeds," "Ezra Klein Show" and "Worldly;" he was also at SiriusXM as an on-air producer for talk programming. Peter studied Audio Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor before getting his Masters in Audio Technology at American University. Now, Peter is passionate about teaching technical resources in podcasting. 

Payton Guion is an investigative reporter at Newsday. He previously reported for The Charlotte Observer, The Star-Ledger and The Asbury Park Press. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2016 and has been teaching at the school since 2021. Payton lives in Brooklyn with his longtime girlfriend and their two dogs.

Paula Span spent 16 years as a New York correspondent for the Washington Post Style section and a staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. She now writes "The New Old Age (link is external)," a column about aging and caregiving, for the New York Times. Her book “When the Time Comes (link is external)," following several families caring for aging parents, was published by Hachette.  More recently, she adapted her Generation Grandparent columns for the New York Times into an audio title, released by Audible, called “The Bubbe Diaries (link is external).” To her great surprise, she is the narrator.

An inveterate freelancer, she has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines including New York, Esquire, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today. She publishes long Q&As for Amazon’s Kindle Single Interview project. She speaks at conferences and gatherings around the country about aging and grandparenting. 

She has taught journalism at Montclair State University and was a McGraw Professor in Writing at Princeton; she has led workshops for the Alaska Press Club, the South Asian Journalists Association and the Washington Post In-House University. She graduated from the Boston University School of Public Communication, then dropped out of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

She blames her entire career on having read back-to-back kid lit biographies of Joseph Pulitzer and Nellie Bly in the fourth grade.

Patricia Sulbarán Lovera is a bilingual reporter and multimedia producer based in New York City. She works as an audio producer at Futuro Media and PRX's Latino USA. She studied journalism in Caracas and has worked as a reporter in her native Venezuela, Colombia and the United States. Most recently, she has produced long-form audio journalism about the Cuban protests of July 2021, the 10th Anniversary of DACA and the labor rights movement against rideshare apps in California. In her previous role as a Los Angeles-based Correspondent with BBC News Mundo, she extensively covered U.S. immigration policy and U.S. Latinx communities for online, TV and radio outlets across the BBC.

An Emmy award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and media executive, Pamela Hogan’s feature documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still about the 1975 Icelandic feminist uprising that sparked a revolution is called “A Worldwide Cri de Coeur” by the Globe and Mail, Canada’s newspaper of record. After premiering at Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival, the film is rolling out at numerous festivals around the world. Her independent film Looks like Laury Sounds like Laury - about the mother of two young children confronting a neurological breakdown – was hailed as one of “The Best TV Shows of 2015” by The New York Times and honored with a Gabriel Award. She was Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the PBS series Women, War & Peace and Director of Episode 1, I Came to Testify, about the Bosnian women who changed international law when they testified about wartime rape for the first time in history. Seen by 12 million viewers, the films won 2 Overseas Press Club awards, a Television Academy Honor, and a Gracie Award; and I Came to Testify was awarded the ABA’s Silver Gavel for excellence in fostering the American public’s understanding of law.

Previously, Pamela was Executive Producer of PBS’s international series Wide Angle. Working closely with global filmmakers on 70 programs filmed in 50 countries, she also originated and developed the Emmy-winning Ladies First about women’s leadership in post-genocide Rwanda, and launched the Time for School series following 7 children in 7 countries from kindergarten through high school as they fight the odds to get a basic education (Gabriel Award, Overseas Press Club citation, IDA nominee). Her speaking engagements include the White House, USIP, Capitol Hill, the Asia Society, the U.N., CFR, and Harvard and UC Berkeley Law Schools. A graduate of Harvard College, she holds a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia.

Pallavi Gogoi is NPR’s Chief Business Editor. Each day, she helps set the agenda for how NPR covers the biggest business, economics, tech and media stories. Her mission is to bring a deeper understanding of these topics and showcase the power they have to shape the lives of people and change the course of history. Under her leadership, her team members have done distinctive work that have won a bevy of awards, including the Edward Murrow, Gracies, Scripps Howard, National Headliner and SABEW.

She has served as a journalism professor at Princeton University and Columbia University. She has over 25 years of experience working as a newsroom leader, editor and reporter at CNN, Business Week, The Associated Press, USA Today and Dow Jones. In addition to English, she is fluent in Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, proficient in Urdu.

Olivia Carville is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg News. She is an award-winning journalist who has written multiple cover stories for Businessweek magazine. A native of New Zealand, Olivia moved to New York City in 2017. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she worked as an investigative reporter for The New Zealand Herald and The Toronto Star. Olivia's work has influenced legislation and exposed corporate wrongdoing in New Zealand, Canada and America. In 2022, she was awarded Global Business Journalist of the Year by the Women's Economic Roundtable. She has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and serves on the board of the New York Financial Writers Association.

Nushin Rashidian is the co-founder of the news organization Cannabis Wire and the co-author of the book A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition (The New Press, 2014). She served as the research lead on the “Platforms and Publishers” project at Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Democracy Journal, The Guardian, and Nieman Reports.

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.

Nabiha Syed is the chief executive officer of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Under her leadership, The Markup’s unique approach has been referenced by Congress 21 times, inspired dozens of class action lawsuits, won a national Murrow Award and a Loeb Award, and been recognized as "Most Innovative" by FastCompany in 2022.

Before launching The Markup in 2020, Nabiha spent a decade as an acclaimed media lawyer focused on the intersection of frontier technology and newsgathering, including advising on issues around the Snowden revelations and the Steele Dossier, access litigation around police disciplinary records and privatized services, as well as privacy and free speech issues globally. Described by Forbes as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers”, she has briefed two presidents on free speech in the digital age, delivered the Salant Lecture at Harvard, headlined SXSW to discuss data privacy after Roe v. Wade, and was awarded the NAACP/Archewell Digital Civil Rights award in 2023 for her work.

A California native and daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Nabiha holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she co-founded one of the nation’s first media law clinics, a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a law degree from Balliol College, Oxford, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar. She serves on the boards of the New York Civil Liberties Union, The New Press, and the Scott Trust, among others. At Columbia Journalism School, Nabiha has been adjunct faculty teaching media law to journalism students

Nabiha lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons. She is a lifelong Girl Scout, and probably has Thin Mints in her handbag right this minute.

Mike Hoyt is an editor, writer, and journalism teacher with deep experience, and co-director of the J-school’s Writing Center. 

He wrote and edited articles about journalism and its challenges for more than 26 years at the Columbia Journalism Review, starting in 1986. For ten of those years—2001 through 2011—he was the editor, responsible for all content and leading the magazine through two redesigns, the creation of its website, and CJR’s 40th and 50th anniversaries. He is co-editor of a CJR book, “Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It,” published in 2007 by Melville House.

Before CJR, Mike was a reporter at two newspapers, a copy editor at Business Week, and a freelance writer. After CJR, he continued teaching at the J-school alongside several faculty members, including Michael Shapiro, Daniel Alarcon, and Alyson Martin.

He is the editor of the Delacorte Review, a home for longform narrative nonfiction, and recently edited another book, “The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust,” by Karen Gordon.

Mike grew up in Kansas City and lives in northern Connecticut with his wife, Mary Ellen Schoonmaker, the other co-director of the Writing Center.

Michael Grabell is a reporter for ProPublica, where he has produced stories for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Vice, Univision and CBS News. His work typically focuses on economic issues, labor, immigration and trade. He has reported on the ground from more than 30 states, as well as some of the remotest villages in Alaska and Guatemala.

In 2016, he received a Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and an IRE Medal for investigative reporting for a series on the dismantling of workers' comp systems across the country. His stories on the growth of temp work helped spur new laws in California and Illinois and won the ASNE award for reporting on diversity. And in 2018, his stories on retaliation against immigrant workers won the Aronson Award for social justice journalism.

Grabell is the author of two books: a narrative history of President Obama's attempts to revive the economy called Money Well Spent? and the poetry chapbook Macho Man, which won the Finishing Line Press competition in 2013. He started his journalism career writing obituaries for the Daily Record in Parsippany, N.J.

Mia Hariz is a video journalist who has previously worked for CNN, CNN+, BBC Reel and the United Nations. Presently, she teaches at her alma mater, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. At BBC Reel, the BBC’s site for premium video content, Mia produced individual documentary shorts and oversaw entire series. She led research, conducted interviews, and edited footage on topics including sustainability, creativity and psychology. Before CNN+’s shutdown, Mia assisted in pitching, researching, scripting and editing short-form, live programs. The year prior, she interned with CNN Digital Productions, where she worked on producing and editing mini documentaries for CNN’s daily “Go There” show. In 2020, Mia earned her master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she now teaches visual storytelling as an Adjunct Professor, advising graduate students on proper camera operation, development of narrative structure, non-linear editing, and post-production techniques.

Merrill Perlman is a consultant who works with news organizations, private companies and foundations, journalism organizations and writers and editors, helping them to communicate with clarity. She spent 25 years at The New York Times in jobs ranging from copy editor to director of copy desks, in charge of all 150-plus copy editors at The Times. She is also a freelance editor of books, long-form journalism and other informational content.

Before going to The Times, she was a copy editor and assistant business editor at The Des Moines Register. Before that, she was a reporter and copy editor at The Southern Illinoisan newspaper. She has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a master of arts in mass communication from Drake University.

Meg Kissinger is an investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who specializes in writing about mental illness. Her work on the abysmal housing conditions of people with chronic mental illness led to the creation of more than 600 new housing units in Milwaukee. She has been honored with two George Polk awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel.

In 2009, Kissinger and Susanne Rust were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for their work uncovering the government’s failure to protect the public from dangerous chemicals in everyday products. Those stories won several awards, including the Oakes Award and the National Journalism Award for Public Service.

Before coming to Milwaukee, Kissinger covered criminal and civil courts for The Cincinnati Post and was a general assignment reporter at the Watertown (NY) Daily Times. She was named Wisconsin Watchdog of the Year in 2015.

She graduated from DePauw University with a degree in political science.

Matt Rocheleau is an editor at Hearst overseeing data and investigations for the Times Union in Albany and a network of about 20 daily and weekly newspapers in Connecticut. Prior to starting in that role in May 2021, he was a reporter at The Boston Globe for a decade, most recently a member of the Spotlight Team. At the Globe, Rocheleau led a year-long investigation that uncovered repeated failures to keep problem drivers off the road had cost lives. The project prompted immediate change at DMVs and courts across the country and won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. He has spearheaded numerous other long-term and rolling investigations, using hard-fought public records, tips from sources and detailed data analysis to uncover wrong-doing and hold leaders accountable at a host of government agencies and private companies.

Mary Ellen was an award-winning editorial writer and opinion columnist for The Bergen Record newspaper in New Jersey for 20 years. In 2001, she received the Editorial Writing award from the Society of the Silurians, the distinguished New York press club. She has also been a newspaper and magazine reporter and editor, writing extensively about education, family, workplace and childcare issues. She was a copy editor at Business Week magazine and an associate editor at The Columbia Journalism Review, where she wrote a groundbreaking piece on new mothers in the newsroom and the many challenges they faced. 

Mary Ellen also taught literature and journalism at Saint Anthony High School in Jersey City, N.J., the legendary basketball school.

She is currently co-director of the J-school's Writing Center and a long-time Master's Project advisor. Working with students has been among the most rewarding phases of her career.

Marlow Stern has been the Senior Entertainment Editor of Rolling Stone since 2022. He currently presides over the magazine and website’s entertainment coverage, focusing on television, film, popular culture, sports, investigations, the adult industry, and the occasional cult. He regularly writes on these topics as well.

Before joining Rolling Stone, Stern was the Senior Entertainment Editor of The Daily Beast and an editor and reporter for Newsweek. He also worked at Blender magazine and helped start a pair of online publications while he was an undergrad in college. He has won two National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and has overseen award-winning coverage tackling everything from Scientology to the #MeToo movement.

Stern earned an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2010.

Mario R. Garcia is Senior Adviser on News Design and Adjunct Professor at Columbia. He is also CEO/Founder of Garcia Media, a global consulting firm. He has been involved with the redesign and rethink of more than 700 publications in 120 countries, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He came to the School of Journalism as the Hearst Digital Media Professional in Residence in 2013. 

He is the author of 14 books, the latest of which is "The Story," a trilogy about mobile storytelling and design.

He has been involved with the Poynter Institute’s EyeTrack Research since its start, including the most recent “EyeTrack: Tablet.”

His awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of News Design, The Journalism Medal of Honor from the University of Missouri for Distinguished Service in Journalism. In 2015, Mario became the recipient of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Charles O’Malley Excellence in Teaching Award. People Magazine mentioned him among the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.

Mario is an avid runner and is totally submerged in the topic of how news and information move across digital platforms.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami.

Margaret Sullivan, weekly columnist for the Guardian US, is the Executive Director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security. This marked her return to Columbia Journalism School, where she previously taught Audience and Engagement courses.

In her role at the Guardian, Ms. Sullivan writes on media, politics and culture; she also served as the 2023 Jack and Pamela Egan Visiting Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.

Prior to her time at Duke University, she wrote extensively on journalism ethics and press freedom as a columnist for The Washington Post. Her work there, and as the Public Editor of the New York Times from 2012 to 2016, focused on the intersection of politics, democracy and media. She also is the former executive editor of her hometown daily newspaper, The Buffalo News, where she began as a summer intern.

In addition to her work in journalism, Sullivan has published two books. In 2020, she introduced “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy” (Columbia Global Reports) and in 2022 “Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-stained Life” (St. Martin’s Press). Both were  acclaimed.

Liz Donovan is an investigative reporter, focused on gender, immigration and climate. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Intercept, AFP, Type Investigations, and more. She's a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Science Po's École de Journalisme in Paris, France. She has worked as a Global Migration Project reporting fellow, a climate reporter for City Limits, and more recently, an investigative researcher for Ronan Farrow. She is based in New York City. 

Known for tales that are deeply researched and artfully told, Lisa Belkin has spent a career covering American social issues, as a daily journalist, a magazine writer and a book author.

During nearly 30 years at The New York Times, she was variously a national correspondent (based in Houston), a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the creator of the Life’s Work column and the Motherlode blog. She has spent the past decade in the digital realm, in senior positions at HuffPost and Yahoo News.

Belkin is the author of four books, most recently Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, which has received uniformly rave reviews including from such publications and The New York Times, NPR and The Wall Street Journal; it has been described as “riveting”, “magestically sweeping,” “hauntingly powerful,” and “a hell of a great read.”

Her previous books were Life’s Work; Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom; First, Do No Harm; and Show Me A Hero, which was made into an HBO miniseries of the same name and nominated for, among other things: a Golden Globe, Satellite, Critics Choice and NAACP Image Award for acting; a Writers Guild and Scripter Award for best writing; and a Critics Choice and Satellite award for best miniseries.

In other media, Belkin was the host of “Life’s Work with Lisa Belkin”, on XM Radio, as well as a regular contributor to Public Radio’s The Takeaway and NBC’s Today Show. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non- fiction as an instrument of social change. Since 2015 she has taught reporting, writing and narrative non-fiction at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Lila Hassan, M.S. Stabile ‘20, is an award-winning independent investigative journalist who covers extremism, immigration, and human rights for a variety of media, including print, documentary, television, and radio. She has worked on projects that have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize and Polk Awards as well as nominations for Emmys, a Peabody Award, and a Columbia DuPont award. 

Her work has been published in The New York Times, ProPublica, The Guardian, FRONTLINE PBS, HuffPost National, Reuters, The Trace, Kaiser Health News, and more. After starting her career in human rights investigations, she pivoted to journalism and has reported from Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, and New York. 

She holds a bachelor's degree in political science with honors from CUNY Brooklyn College, where she was in The Scholars Program, and a Master of Science from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's specialized Toni Stabile Center for investigative reporting, where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She has also studied international affairs and law at Université de Paris X - Nanterre. 

She lives in New York and speaks Arabic and French. In her spare time, she is working on learning Spanish.

Léo Hamelin is a filmmaker and director who works both in the United States and internationally. Until recently, she was the Head of Documentaries at Brut. America, where she led a small team in creating impactful, character-driven documentaries across the U.S. Léo's work seeks to foster empathy through intimate, first-person narratives. She has produced 30 short documentaries on topics including addiction, death, immigration, subcultures, and the environment, reaching millions of viewers worldwide.

She served as a bilingual Producer on a sports docuseries set to be released on Netflix in the fall of 2024. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, BBC, TIME, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vox, and more.

Previously, she worked with Blue Chalk Media, where she directed the New Yorker documentary "Quiet No More," which received the National Magazine Award and premiered at DOC NYC. She also directed the New Yorker documentary "The People's Newspaper," which received a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Grant. Additionally, she produced non-fiction videos and campaigns for clients such as Pearson, Freedom House, Lyft, Nike, Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, Bloomberg Philanthropies, PepsiCo Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, and more.

As a recipient of the 2018 Adelante Fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), she reported from the U.S.-Mexico border. Her work was published by the BBC and the Tampa Bay Times. Her illustrated essay about life at the border was published by BuzzFeed News. In 2017, she was awarded a European Journalism Centre grant for Innovation in Development Reporting to cover gender equality in Rwanda.

Léo was born into a French family and grew up in Brazil and Thailand. She studied in France, Mexico, and Hong Kong, and has traveled to over 45 countries.

She regularly teaches online documentary courses at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned a Master's Degree in 2012 and served as a Digital Media Fellow in 2013. Prior to that, she earned a B.A. in Politics ('09) and a Master's Degree in Journalism ('11) from Sciences-Po Paris.

Kristen Lombardi heads the Columbia Journalism School’s postgraduate reporting program, Columbia Journalism Investigations, where she has the privilege of helping produce great investigative stories while training the next generation of great investigative reporters. Under her editorial leadership, CJI fellows have dug into worker heat deaths (link is external), the mental-health toll of climate-fueled disasters (link is external) and online-dating companies’ response to sexual assaults (link is external), and CJI investigations have won accolades from the South Carolina Press Association, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Peabody Awards.

Before joining the J-School in August 2018, Kristen spent 11 years as an investigative reporter at the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Public Integrity, covering environmental and social justice issues. She’s been a journalist (link is external) for 26 years and has received numerous national and regional awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Dart Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service. In 2013, President Barack Obama signed a law addressing problems exposed by her 2009-10 CPI investigation, “Sexual Assault on Campus (link is external).” She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and has a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. She’s taught investigative skills classes at Columbia and serves as a master’s adviser for students in the Stabile investigative reporting program.

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.

Kholood Eid is a Palestinian American documentary photographer, filmmaker and educator based in New York. She was part of the team at the Times that won the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award for their series investigating online child sexual abuse.

Kevin has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Asbury Park Press and The New York Times, for which wrote a weekly column about New Jersey. He has been teaching at the school since 2000, and has twice been chosen Distinguished Teacher of the Year. He is the author of "A Day in the Night of America," "Domers: A Year at Notre Dame," and the recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for "Marching Home: To War and Back with The Men of One American Town." He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Keren Blankfeld is an award-winning journalist with a special interest in narrative nonfiction. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, The Toronto Star, and others. Her first book,Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story will be published through Little, Brown in January 2024 and is being translated to multiple languages. A former editor and staff writer at Forbes, Keren has been a guest on CNN, BBC World News, and E! Entertainment. In 2013, Keren served as a creative executive at New Regency Productions, where she worked with screenwriters and playwrights to develop material for movies and TV shows. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and English from Tufts University and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Keren spent her teenage years in Houston, Texas. She now lives in New York with her husband and two sons.

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. >

Before moving to Asia, Ken ran the Journal’s finance and markets coverage during and after the financial crisis. Over that period, the Journal won numerous awards for its coverage of Wall Street and markets.

Ken first joined the Journal as a reporter in 2000. He has overseen the Journal's real estate coverage and reported on tech and markets. As a Heard on the Street columnist from 2001 to 2004, he wrote about the collapse of Arthur Andersen and scandals involving Nortel, Enron and others.

In a detour from journalism, Ken worked as a principal at Pzena Investment Management, a value-oriented investment firm. He has also worked at The New York Times, Smart Money magazine and The Washington Post. He graduated from SUNY Binghamton and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Justin Elliott has been a reporter with ProPublica, where he covers business and politics, since 2012.

In 2023, he and colleagues revealed how a set of politically connected billionaires provided lavish gifts and travel to Supreme Court justices over many years. Those stories won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service. 

He was previously on the team of reporters documenting how the rich avoid taxes for “The Secret IRS Files” series. He co-wrote a story revealing how tech mogul Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a multibillion-dollar tax haven.

His work has spurred congressional investigations and changes to federal law. His coverage of TurboTax-maker Intuit’s misleading marketing tactics led to a settlement delivering $141 million back to consumers.

His work has won numerous awards. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he has won a George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism. His stories have been published and aired in outlets including The New York Times and NPR. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in history and classics.

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.

She is currently working on a pilot comedy for HBO about war correspondents. The showrunner is Amanda Peet.

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 face. 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 security protocols and training for media around the world. Clients have included NBC, the UN, Society of Professional Journalists, Doc Society, Magnum, State Department, VICE, The Guardian, Society of Environmental Journalists, 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), the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), SAJA and the Logan Nonfiction Program.

Juanita Ceballos is a documentary producer and filmmaker with extensive experience working in the U.S. and abroad, with bylines in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Ukraine. She has covered sensitive topics, including Colombia’s civil conflict, police brutality in the United States, and the refugee crisis in Venezuela. Her work has appeared on FRONTLINE, VICE, HBO, Showtime, Telemundo, Al Jazeera, Univision, NBC News, TIME, Narratively, and The New York Times. Juanita is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she has been working as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Journalism since 2015.

Juan Arredondo is a Colombian-American documentary photographer and filmmaker who has chronicled human rights issues and social and armed conflicts throughout Latin America, Ukraine and the US. He’s a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. His photographs have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and aired on ESPN , PBS, and HBO, among others. For his work, he has been awarded a World Press Photo, Overseas Press Club, ICRC Humanitarian Visa D’Or Award, among others. Arredonod is a Columbia University Journalism School graduate and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. 

Arredondo has been a visiting professor of visual journalism at Arizona State University Cronkite School of Journalism and teaches photojournalism, multimedia, sound and video at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 2021.

Jonathan Thirkield's work explores the boundaries between the human language systems of poetry and code—as forms of expression and as structural models for being. He has worked as an independent Web developer for arts and media outlets over a decade, and he has taught poetry at colleges and universities including the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Deep Springs College. He teaches courses in computational media and digital arts at the New School's Graduate Media Studies Program, Parson's Design and Technology MFA program, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism MS Data program. 

His first collection of poetry, The Waker's Corridor, won the 2008 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His next of collection, Infinity Pool, will be published by the University of Chicago Press' Phoenix Poets series in the fall of 2024. His interactive work has been accessioned into the Rhizome ArtBase, and his recent writing has appeared in Conjunctions, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. To view some of his interactive projects go to floatingmedia.com

John Zucker was longtime Deputy Chief Counsel and Senior Vice President at ABC, Inc., where he led the group of attorneys who advise and represent ABC News and the news operations at the ABC-owned television stations on newsgathering, libel, privacy, fair use, and other First Amendment, FCC and copyright issues.  Prior to joining ABC, Zucker was Senior Broadcast Attorney at CBS Inc., working with CBS News and the CBS stations, and an associate at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Washington, DC, specializing in First Amendment and FCC matters.

Zucker is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. 

Zucker has been an adjunct professor teaching media law courses at the Columbia School of Journalism since 1999.  Prior to that, he was a visiting lecturer teaching a media law seminar course at Yale College for seven years.  Zucker has appeared frequently as a guest speaker or panelist at legal workshops and at law school and college media law classes. 

Before attending law school, Zucker worked as a reporter at the Wilton (Ct.) Bulletin and at the Associated Press bureau in Hartford, CT and as a copy editor at the Buffalo Evening News. 

Jimmy So is the editor of Columbia Global Reports, a publishing imprint from Columbia University that commissions authors to produce works of original thinking and on-site reporting from all over the world, on a wide range of topics. He has commissioned and edited authors such as Masha Gessen, Bill Keller, Harriet A. Washington, Margaret Sullivan, Bethany McLean, Tim Wu, Roxane Gay, Edmund Morris, Jonathan Schell, Clay Shirky, Gish Jen, and Sasha Issenberg, among many others.

He is a regular film and book critic and was a culture and books editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where he contributed many film, book, television, and music criticism, and won a National Magazine Award as part of the books team for his reviews. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBS News, and other publications. He has worked for The New Yorker, CBS News, and KUOW radio. He was a classical music critic for The Seattle Times, and a news anchor and senior editor at the Hong Kong television stations TVB and ATV, where he covered the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the Beijing Olympics. He is writing a book about the early friendship of two Chinese film directors. He is a graduate of the MA program at Columbia in the arts and culture concentration, where he won the Pulitzer traveling fellowship.

Jennifer Vanasco is an editor on the NPR Culture Desk, where she also reports on theater, visual arts, cultural institutions, the intersection of tech/culture and the economics of the arts.

She previously worked at Member station WNYC in New York, where for almost nine years, she wore many hats — Arts & Culture Desk editor, evening news editor, fill-in host and newscaster, regular contributor to the arts show "All of It" and award-winning arts reporter. She teaches audio journalism in Columbia University's journalism graduate program and is on the faculty of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Critics Institute.

Before audio journalism, she was editor in chief of MTV's 365Gay.com, which at the time was the country's largest LGBTQ+ news site; created and wrote the Minority Reports column for Columbia Journalism Review; and for over a decade was a syndicated newspaper columnist on gay issues.

She has received many awards for her work, including the New York Radio Festivals Silver Award, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Radio Award, the National Headline Award, the Peter Lisagor Award, plus awards from the Associated Press, the New York State Broadcasters Association, the Webbys and others. She graduated from Wellesley College.

Jennifer Jo Janisch is an award-winning reporter, producer, and filmmaker. She is an executive producer of an upcoming multi-episode Netflix series, and most recently produced "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror," a five-part Netflix series (Sept. 2021), directed by Brian Knappenberger. She also co-produced the twice Emmy-nominated, two-part HBO film "Agents of Chaos" (Sept. 2020) about Russian interference in the 2016 election, directed by Alex Gibney.

She spent eight years contributing original investigative reporting to the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning. She won Emmys in 2018 (Air Force Academy sexual assault) and 2017 (Wounded Warrior Project charity) in the Investigative Reporting category. Her work received a second place National Headliners Award and an honorable mention from the White House Correspondents Association (Air Force Academy, 2018) and she was a finalist for the 2016 Scripps Howard investigative reporting award (Wounded Warrior Project, 2017).

She spent the early part of her time on the CBS News investigative team investigating the healthcare of veterans, and the consequences of war on civilians and culture heritage in the Middle East. She also contributed reporting in countless breaking news events. Her past stories were among those honored with a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage of the War Against ISIL, and the investigative team of which she was a member won the 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of the Sandy Hook massacre. She has shared six other Emmy nominations for her contributions in the news and documentary field.

Before joining CBS News, Janisch worked on a five-part series for PBS “Wide Angle” called “Women, War & Peace," which won the 2011 Overseas Press Club award for best television documentary on international affairs, the 2012 Gracie Award for outstanding series, and a 2012 Television Academy Honors award. Janisch associate-produced an hour-long documentary for the series about the armed conflict in Colombia called "The War We Are Living," which won the 2011 Overseas Press Club award for Best Latin America reporting.

She began her career in the summer of 2009 as an intern at CBS News “60 Minutes," where she contributed research to an investigation by Lesley Stahl into the increasing reliance by some state governments on casino revenue.

Jasmine Cui is a reporter at NBC News. Previously, she worked as a data scientist in domains ranging from accounting to telecommunications.

Janmaris Perez, '20 M.S., is a journalist and audio producer specializing in narrative news and non-fiction podcasts. She is currently an Associate Producer at MSNBC Audio where she assists in the production of several award winning series, including Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News, Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, Prosecuting Donald Trump, How to Win 2024, Into America and Why Is This Happening?The Chris Hayes Podcast. Her work has been recognized and awarded the Adweek Political Podcast of the Year, Webby Award for Crime & Justice and the Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism. She previously worked at StoryCorps where she produced for NPR's Morning Edition and the StoryCorps Podcast. 

She holds a bachelor's degree in Digital Media/Communication Studies with honors from Florida State University, and a Master of Science from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. 

She lives in Astoria, Queens and enjoys local stand-up comedy shows in her spare time. 

Jamie Roth is an Emmy award-winning on-air news reporter who has worked for TV stations across the country. Over the past 20-plus years, Roth has covered major stories of national and local interest. She’s also worked as a freelance video news producer and print reporter for Business Insider.

Roth has taught at Columbia since 2015.

James G. Robinson has spent nearly two decades at The New York Times, where he helps the company use data to better understand its audience. He has taught expository writing at NYU and is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School. 

In 2017, his article “Road to Recovery” was featured on the front page of the Times’ Sunday Travel section. Describing a road trip his family took after the death of his five-year-old son, the piece was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing 2018 and inspired him to write his debut memoir, More Than We Expected, published by Post Hill Press in November 2023.

A native New Yorker, James lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Tali, and their two surviving sons.

Jim Mintz is an adjunct professor in the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism in the Columbia Journalism School and the president of the Mintz Group, a research and investigative firm. He has spent thirty years conducting investigations all over the world. He helped pioneer the use of sophisticated resources by law firms in the 1970s as an in-house investigator at a Washington, D.C. law firm.

In 1980, Newsweek said about their unique in-house group: "What sets [them] apart— and a few others around the nation — is their ability to take comprehensive looks at complicated situations and make sense out of them." His articles include “Harassment 101: How to Handle Complaints” for The Wall Street Journal, "Strategies for Managing Complex Corporate Investigations” for the Practicing Law Institute, and “Background Checking on BoardCandidates" for Directors & Boards.

Two of Jim's notable assignments recently:

He was the chief investigator for the Connecticut legislative committee that considered the impeachment of Governor John Rowland. Jim testified for days at televised hearings, during one of which Rowland resigned.

Jim also worked on behalf of New York City on the issue of how handguns are distributed, sold and get into the hands of criminals.

Jake Price is a filmmaker, photographer, and producer of immersive documentaries. A focus of his work is the intersection of climate change with cultural and ecological systems, emphasizing long-term storytelling that captures the deep connections between land, culture, science, and community. An Ochberg Fellow at Columbia Universities’ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, coping with and understanding trauma are also significant themes that run throughout his work.

He began his photographic career in Kosovo 1999. He has worked on assignments for, and his work appears in, publications worldwide, including The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal,  Rolling Stone, Orion Magazine, Newsweek, Le Monde II, Japan Contemporaries, and others.

Over the past two decades, he has navigated the evolving media landscape, marked by the decline of print media and the rise of digital platforms. By embracing new technologies and storytelling formats, he has remained at the forefront of evolving journalism. His present work is characterized by the blending of traditional photojournalism and innovative digital storytelling, integrating photographs, audio recordings, video, and written narratives that result in multi-layered experiences.

His immersive documentary projects include Unknown Spring, which documented the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and received top honors from the World Press Photo Foundation. This was followed by The Invisible Season, a POV funded web documentary that focused on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, which was nominated for a Webby Award and premiered at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

His photography and films are held in the private collections of The 9/11 Memorial Museum and Stony Brook University and his solo exhibits include an immersive exhibit of The Invisible Season at Lincoln Center, New York, Surviving Kosovo at The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, amongst many others globally. He has curated numerous exhibits, most recently as co-curator for the Maks Levin exhibit at the United Nations sponsored by The Committee to Protect Journalists.

He holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston.

Irene Plagianos is an award-winning journalist and producer. As a freelance investigative and enterprise reporter, Irene broke the sexual misconduct allegations against famed chef Mario Batali for Eater, covered the El Chapo trial for the Los Angeles Times and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Vice and others. Her reporting on Batali was recently featured in the documentary, Batali: The Fall of a Superstar Chef, on Max. 

Most recently, Irene was a producer for the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ show, The Problem with Jon Stewart. The episode she produced on the politicized battle for transgender rights won a 2023 GLAAD Media Award. Before joining The Problem, Irene was a news producer on the final season of the Peabody Award-winning Netflix show, The Patriot Act. 

Irene was also previously a staff writer at The American Lawyer magazine and a reporter at NYC news website, DNAinfo, where she was awarded a Tow Foundation Juvenile Justice Fellowship for her story on teens charged as adults in NYC criminal courts. Irene began her career in NYC media as a stringer for the New York Post while she attended Columbia Journalism School. She also received her BA from Columbia University.

Ms. Blair is the author of Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch And The Selling of Television News (a New York Times bestseller); The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders And A President;and Laura Ingalls Wilder (a children’s biography). She has written on politics, business, media, design, science, and other topics for the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Politico, New York Magazine, The Week, The Observer, Esquire, Newsday, Mother Jones, Us Weekly, TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, and a wide variety of other publications. 

Gregory Khalil is the co-founder and President of Telos, 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.

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.

Gershom Gorenberg is a historian and journalist who has been covering Middle Eastern affairs for over three decades. He is the author, most recently, of "War of Shadows: Code Breakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East." Based on documents that remained classified for decades, War of Shadows demolishes myths of World War II and solves the mystery of the spy affair that nearly brought Rommel’s army and SS death squads to Cairo and Jerusalem. Gorenberg’s previous book was The Unmaking of Israel, a provocative examination of Israeli history and the crisis of Israeli democracy. He is also the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, a groundbreaking portrayal of Israel’s post-1967 history, of major Israeli leaders, and of Israel-U.S. relations.

His first book was "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," a close look at the role of religious radicalism and apocalyptic visions in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, "Shalom Friend," winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Gorenberg is a columnist for The Washington Post and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. He was for many years the op-ed editor of The Jerusalem Report.

Gorenberg has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. He has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Council, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Middle East Institute, the University of Oxford Middle East Centre and the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. When not in New York to teach, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck. They have three children – Yehonatan, Yasmin and Shir-Raz.

George Miller is a longtime journalist and educator.

He was a photojournalist and reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, and he later published a local music magazine in Philadelphia called JUMP. His words and images have been published around the world.

Before arriving at the Graduate School of Journalism, Miller was on the faculty of the Journalism Department at Temple University. He taught magazine writing, documentary photography, entrepreneurial journalism and a multimedia reporting class called Philadelphia Neighborhoods, as well as many other classes. From 2018 through 2021, he also served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Temple University’s Japan Campus in Tokyo.

He taught in summer multimedia journalism programs in Cagli, Italy, in Armagh, Northern Ireland, and in London.

He is a graduate of Loyola University of Maryland. He earned master’s degrees at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in higher education leadership from Wilmington University.

As the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Journalism School, Miller’s primary duty is to ensure that students receive the best possible learning experience.

Gabriella Canal is a documentary filmmaker and journalist living in Brooklyn. Inspired by her upbringing in a Colombian-American household, she produces character-driven stories rooted in identity and belonging with a focus on women’s voices. She also loves highlighting the efforts of those working to improve human lives and protect the environment. As a journalist and producer, she’s worked with The Atlantic, Global Citizen, John Leguizamo’s NGL Studios and Insignia Films. Her independent work as a director, DP and editor has won a Student Academy Award, and been published in and featured by The New Yorker, The Video Consortium, New York Women in Film and Television and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. A short documentary series she directed in 2023 on criminal justice data for Measures for Justice was Webby-nominated. In 2022, she became a Pulitzer Center Fellow and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Ese Olumhense is an investigative reporter at The Markup, where she covers the ways that government agencies acquire and use technology.

Before that, she was a reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, producing both digital and radio pieces on democracy and voting rights. Ese has also reported for The Guardian, City Limits, THE CITY and The Investigative Fund, among other outlets, working across range of beats including health, crime, housing, and politics.

A native New Yorker, Ese is also an alumna of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Emily Goligoski researches consumers to help media organizations boost their revenue. She has held management roles at The Atlantic, the future of work media company Charter and the Membership Puzzle Project, a public interest research project at NYU. She was the first user experience researcher embedded in The New York Times newsroom. She is also a writer.

Emily has focused her career on ensuring the sustainability of independent journalism, particularly in contexts where its viability is under threat. She is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, teaching about the business of media. 

At Stanford Emily earned her Master's degree in Learning, Design & Technology and taught at the Stanford design institute ("d.school"), among other learning institutions. She reported for Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) while studying journalism at Northwestern. Emily can be reached at em[at]emilygoligoski.com.

Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Prior to joining The Times in 2017, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a reporter and deputy investigations editor. 

A native of Eau Claire, Wis., Ms. Gabler has a bachelor of business administration from Emory University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was part of the inaugural class of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

Ms. Gabler started her journalism career at the Stillwater Gazette in Stillwater, Minn. and has also been a reporter at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and the Chicago Tribune. 

As the Assistant Dean of Student, Academic, and International Programs, Elena directs the Part-time Program for M.S. students and oversees a portfolio of international programs and communications. A graduate of the Part-time M.S. program, she was a staff writer at The Miami Herald. Her magazine work has appeared in VIBE, Marie Claire, Commonweal and PODER. She has also worked as an editor at Scholastic News and a staff writer at the Ford Foundation’s quarterly magazine. Elena is the faculty adviser to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ student chapter at Columbia University. She is a member of the school’s Academic Affairs team.

Dorian Benkoil leads Teeming Media, where he focuses on the processes that make media businesses work. A Fulbright Fellow, MBA, adjunct professor and award-winning journalist, he has been a managing editor, foreign correspondent and reporter for ABC News, AP and Newsweek, and an executive in a number of media companies, including ABC News and mediabistro. He also runs The Verticals Collective, a publishers’ group, and speaks Japanese and French. He is a top-tier judge for the Mirror Awards. As an educator, he teaches multiple media management and technology courses.

Dolores Barclay is an author and former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press. She worked for AP first as a reporter covering City Hall, federal and criminal courts, and the police beat for the New York City bureau, before advancing to National Writer and investigative reporter. She later moved into culture coverage as a writer and critic and rose to manage and overhaul AP's culture beat as Arts and Entertainment editor. Her investigative series with fellow National Writer Todd Lewan, "Torn From the Land," was a seminal work in documenting the massive loss of wealth suffered by Black Americans through land loss. The project was awarded the Aronson Prize for Social Justice Journalism, the APME Enterprise Award, and the Griot Award of the New York Association of Black Journalists and was submitted for a Pulitzer Prize. It remains a studied and much discussed work. Barclay, who has taught feature writing at Rutgers University, is the author of two inspirational books, and co-author of "A Girl Needs Cash" and "Sammy Davis Jr. My Father,” now a film project with the Emmy-winning actress/producer/writer Lena Waithe. She also worked with Diana Ross on her best-selling memoir, "Secrets of a Sparrow." A graduate of Elmira College, Barclay was honored with the Alumni Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 2011. She is also a recipient of The Multiple Sclerosis Award for Excellence in Communication. She is currently working on her first novel and a nonfiction account of her family’s storied history.

When not working, Barclay sails, fishes, snorkels, travels, gardens and cooks. She enjoys theater, film, music, art, dance and comic books.

Books

A Girl Needs Cash

Sammy David Jr.: My Father

Believe in Yourself

Starting Over

Derek Kravitz is a contributing reporter at ProPublica, the New York-based investigative nonprofit. Previously, he was ProPublica’s director of research from 2016 to 2018. He was also a reporter and editor for the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal; a national economics writer for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C.; a local government and transportation staff writer at The Washington Post; and a crime reporter at the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri.

Kravitz is a two-time Livingston Award finalist and projects he edited or reported have won prizes from the George Polk Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Deadline Club. He has also been apart of three teams that have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

Kravitz was also a postgraduate research scholar at Columbia University and was a co-author of the journalism school's independent review of Rolling Stone magazine’s now-retracted campus-rape story. 

Kravitz graduated with a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and master’s degrees in international relations and journalism from Columbia University. He teaches investigative reporting at Columbia’s Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

Denise Ajiri is an award-winning data & investigative journalist and risk assessment analyst. Born and raised in Iran, she has had a global career and is based in New York today.

Denise’s work frequently has an economic and cross-border span. She uses data and investigative skills to connect the dots and often to expose wrongdoing. Her work has been published in multiple outlets in the US and Europe. 

Beyond her individual work, Denise has been a contributor to a variety of marquee cooperative journalistic efforts including the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Univision/Columbia University, and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Denise is a graduate of Iran’s flagship Tehran University. She earned her Master’s at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2015 as a Stabile fellow. She returned to Columbia in 2017 as a postdoctoral research scholar. 

Denise is a winner of the Online News Association’s MJ Bear Fellowship and continues to serve on its committee. She later received an Online News Association award for her work around Iranian elections. Denise is fluent in Persian and Assyrian and conversant in Turkish and Azeri.

Deborah Sontag is a Brooklyn-based writer with 35 years of experience as an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, magazine writer and editor. She spent most of her career at The New York Times, where she reported from around the city, the country and the world.

Sontag created the immigration beat at The Times, served as the first woman bureau chief in Jerusalem, and, with an award-winning, 18,000-word narrative on waste and bungling in the reconstruction of Ground Zero, helped pioneer the use of stand-alone sections devoted to a single story.

She has profiled world leaders from Hugo Chávez to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and covered a broad range of subjects, which recently included Colombian death squads, Salvadoran street gangs, transgender inmates, the North Dakota oil boom and addiction treatment in Appalachia.

Among her many commendations, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and a winner of the George Polk Award for an investigation of the federal immigration agency.

Prior to joining The Times, Sontag was a feature writer and book critic at The Miami Herald, and an education reporter at The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette. She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and a high school French and Spanish teacher in Manhattan.

She holds an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literature from Dartmouth College.

Deanna is an experienced trial lawyer and investigator whose practice focuses on white collar defense, government investigations, and complex civil litigation. She served for six years as an assistant district attorney in New York City and has tried more than two dozen cases to verdict in federal and state court.

Deanna was a legal affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a national and breaking news reporter for the Washington Post. During her journalism career, she was part of The Post team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. In 2022, Deanna received the New York Press Club Award for political reporting and the Newswoman’s Club of New York's Front Page Award for her reporting in the wake of the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Dave is a freelance data journalist who recently decided to leave the Bergen Record in New Jersey and branch out on his own after 18 years as co-manager, and then manager, of the newspaper's data operation. His role at The Record included maintaining a library of dozens of databases as well as developing, reporting, writing and providing interactive graphics for data-driven stories. He has won awards for articles on a broad spectrum of topics, including race-based property tax inequities, historical changes in living patterns throughout the New York City area, major league baseball player values, relationship trends revealed in personal ads and the real estate boom and bust of the past two decades.

Prior to becoming involved in data journalism, he worked as a beat reporter covering housing, urban issues and a long-running desegregation battle in Yonkers in the 1980s and 90s.

When he's not in front of a class or a computer, he can be found hiking the trails of America's national parks, playing on the softball fields of New York City, pursuing his love of photography or repairing antique phonographs.

Clifton Leaf served as the Editor-in-Chief of FORTUNE from 2017 to 2021. During his tenure, FORTUNE won more than 70 top journalism prizes and substantially expanded its website, newsletter, premium subscription, podcast, and virtual conference businesses. Prior to that he was FORTUNE’s deputy editor, overseeing the acclaimed print magazine. In earlier years, he was a guest editor for the New York Times op-ed page and held senior positions at the Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney magazine and at FORTUNE.

Cliff is also the author of the book, The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It (Simon & Schuster), which was named by Newsweek as one of “The Best Books About Cancer” and which earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European School of Oncology “for his outstanding contribution to cancer journalism.” The founding co-chairman of FORTUNE Brainstorm Health and a member of the Board of Fellows at Stanford University School of Medicine, Cliff is currently the Global Fellow at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Los Angeles and serves on the editorial advisory board for Harvard Public Health.

He has won numerous awards for his journalism and leadership in the anticancer effort, including the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the NIHCM’s Health Care Journalism Award, and he was twice named a finalist for the National Magazine Award. In 2006, Cliff delivered “Grand Rounds” at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, becoming the first and only journalist to receive that honor. He is currently writing his second book, which is due to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.

Christopher Weaver is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He was part of the Journal team that won a 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He's a graduate of Tulane University and the University of Maryland. Mr. Weaver joined the Journal in 2011 to cover U.S. health care companies before moving to the paper's investigations team. He's been teaching at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 2015.

Christopher Lee is a Korean-American photographer based in both San Antonio, Texas and Brooklyn, New York. His personal work focuses on issues of identity, subcultures, immigration, and the United States military. He is known for his use of lighting and style in his images as well as his sense of empathy for the people and subjects he photographs. He is most recently known for his work during the January 6th riot at the US Capitol building in Washington DC.

Chris is frequently commissioned by the New York Times, TIME, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Texas Monthly. He has also contributed to New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Politico Magazine, Washington Post, The Intercept, among others.

His commercial clients include Apple, ON Running, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), World Vision International, Innocence Project, Backcountry, Cannondale, Specialized, among others.

Chuck Stevens joined the adjunct faculty after more than three decades as a senior editor at Bloomberg News and a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, working in print, online and broadcast media.

For Bloomberg, he was a New York-based enterprise editor of global features; oversaw newsletters on hedge funds, private equity and mergers and acquisitions; and edited coverage of the financial services industry. His assignments included turns as a show producer for Bloomberg Television and an editor in Hong Kong for Asia-Pacific banking news.

With The Wall Street Journal, Stevens was a Page One feature editor and reported on financial markets in New York, the auto industry in Detroit and general assignments from the Boston bureau.

At Columbia, he has been an instructor for Reporting and for City Newsroom, a class that publishes a multimedia online news site covering New York. He also has taught Business Reporting and is a Master’s Project advisor.

Stevens is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Charles Ornstein is a deputy managing editor at ProPublica, overseeing the Local Reporting Network, which works with local news organizations to produce accountability journalism on issues of importance to their communities. From 2008 to 2017, he was a senior reporter covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry. He then worked as a senior editor.

Prior to joining ProPublica, he was a member of the metro investigative projects team at the Los Angeles Times. In 2004, he and Tracy Weber were lead authors on a series on Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, a troubled hospital in South Los Angeles. The articles won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service.

In 2009, he and Weber worked on a series of stories that detailed serious failures in oversight by the California Board of Registered Nursing and nursing boards around the country. The work was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

He previously worked at the Dallas Morning News, where he covered health care on the business desk and worked in the Washington bureau. Ornstein is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and an adjunct journalism professor at Columbia University. Ornstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Carlos Sandoval is an Emmy nominated filmmaker whose work includes the award winning documentaries:  THE STATE OF ARIZONA, A CLASS APART and FARMINGVILLE.

A writer and sometimes lawyer, Sandoval’s essays have appeared in several publications, including The New York Times. He is a Sundance and MacArthur grantee, an advisor with Columbia Journalism School, and on the advisory boards of the IDA’S Enterprise Documentary Fund and Firelight Media. Sandoval has done extensive work in public media, including serving on several funding and programming panels and as Co-Executive Director of Next Generation Leadership.  A founding member of Indie Caucus, Sandoval is currently at work on a documentary about Latinos and the criminal justice system.

Sandoval is a native of Southern California and a graduate of Harvard College and of the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to his filmmaking career, Sandoval practiced law and worked in policy as a member of the US Delegation to the United Nations and as a program officer with The Century Foundation.

Caleb Melby is a senior investigative reporter with Bloomberg News, where he works with journalists across the newsroom to report urgent stories that have prompted action from prosecutors, regulators and lawmakers. His exclusive report on off-the-books perks offered by the Trump Organization triggered investigations, a guilty plea to felony charges by Trump’s chief financial officer, and the first and only criminal convictions of Trump’s business. His investigation with Polly Mosendz into Cerebral Inc. prompted a federal inquiry into its prescribing practices. Cerebral’s CEO was ousted and the company ceased prescribing most controlled medications. His series with Noah Buhayar and Kocieniewski showed how “well-connected individuals perverted the stated intention” of the federal Opportunity Zone program, and won a George Polk award. Stories with Kocieniewski on Kushner Cos. revealed deals that "stretched across the world and into the White House,” winning several awards, including the top honor from the New York Press Club. 

Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia Journalism School encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide.

An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is also teaches ethics at Columbia Journalism School, where he is adjunct professor and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs. His books include "Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America" and "Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future."

Shapiro is recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for "outstanding and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma." He is a founding board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

Brian M. Rosenthal is an investigative reporter at The New York Times, where he has worked since 2017. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry. Prior to joining The Times, he worked as a reporter at The Seattle Times, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of a deadly landslide, and at the Houston Chronicle, where he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for revealing that Texas had secretly and illegally denied special education services to tens of thousands of children with disabilities. He also has won a national Emmy and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. He is currently the president of the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the largest professional journalism association in the United States, which provides training in investigative techniques to thousands of journalists around the world. He grew up in Indiana.

Betsy Morais is the managing editor of Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, she worked at The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Atlantic, and she has written for these and other magazines.

Ben Shapiro is a documentary maker working in radio, podcasts, and film and television. His radio projects have aired regularly on NPR, and on American Public Radio, the BBC and CBC. For 20 years he has been editor and producer at Radio Diaries, the award-winning first-person audio series heard on NPR’s All Things Considered. He has also been editor for programs and series at WNYC, Midroll/Earwolf, WUNC, with The Kitchen Sisters, and the Public Radio Exchange.

Ben’s documentary films have appeared at SXSW, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, MOMA, and colleges, theaters and broadcasts internationally. His feature documentary “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” followed the renowned photographer for a decade, and was named a New York Times “Critics Pick”. As a cinematographer he has worked with PBS American Masters, National Geographic, and HBO.

Ben has received the Peabody and DuPont awards for radio projects, and an Emmy for documentary cinematography.

Ava Seave is a principal of Quantum Media, a New York City-based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media, information and entertainment companies.

Before founding Quantum Media with four others in 1998, Seave was a general manager at Scholastic Inc., The Village Voice and at TVSM. Seave has taught about the business of news and media at Columbia Journalism School since 2010, where she is an assistant adjunct professor; she currently co-teaches “Managing the 21st Century News Organization.” She also teaches at Columbia Business School where she is now an associate adjunct professor.  She currently teaches “Media & Entertainment: Strategy Consulting Projects.”  

Seave is the co-author, with Jonathan Knee and Bruce Greenwald, of "Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies."  She is co-author, with Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves, of  "The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism."  She was a contributor to Forbes.com from 2013 to 2017.  She has written several cases for Columbia CaseWorks  including "French News Start-up L'Opinion:  Swimming Upstream in Uncertain Times,"  “Contently: Evolution of a Media Start-Up,” “Native Advertising: Innovation or Trendy Trap,” and “Scripps Networks' Integration of Recipezaar.”

Seave graduated from Brown University with an A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School with a M.B.A. She is on two non-profit boards: DeLaSalle Academy, a middle school for academically gifted, financially challenged students and The American Poetry Review.

Anthony DePalma spent 22 years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, serving as Bureau Chief in Mexico and Canada. At The Times he also was an international business correspondent covering the Americas, a national correspondent covering higher education, and a metro reporter covering housing, the working class, and the environment. He has focused his journalism on Latin America, especially Mexico and Cuba, but he has also traveled widely and reported from places as diverse as Albania, Montenegro, Guyana, and Suriname.

His interest in Cuba is both professional and personal. He is married to Miriam Rodriguez, who was born in Cuba and came to the United States after the 1959 Revolution. He first visited Cuba in 1979 during the brief thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations during the administration of Jimmy Carter and has been back many times since then to report and to visit family.

In 2001 he published "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," which was re-released as an e-book in 2014. His second book, published in 2006, was "The Man Who Invented Fidel," about the rise of Fidel Castro and the impact that Castro, and journalism, have had on U.S.-Cuba relations. The book has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and the film rights were purchased by Moxie Pictures. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, he wrote nearly 100 of the “Portraits of Grief” that won a Pulitzer for The Times in 2001.

He left The Times in 2008 to become writer-in-residence at Seton Hall University, where he continued writing while teaching classes on international relations and journalism. While there, he completed his third book, "City of Dust," about the environmental and health crises that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The book was the basis of a CNN documentary “Terror in the Dust,” which won the Society of Professional Journalists’ award for best documentary in 2011.

He has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism since 2009.

Among his many professional recognitions are a 2007 Emmy finalist for “Toxic Legacy,” a documentary co-production of The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. In 2009, Columbia University awarded him the Maria Moors Cabot Award for distinguished international reporting. He has been named a media fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a visiting scholar at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

He continues to write and lecture about Latin America and the environment, while also reporting on many other subjects. His latest book is "The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times," published in 2020, by Viking, an imprint of Penguin/ Random House, in the U.S., and by Bodley Head in the U.K. It has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Korean and Polish.   

Andrew McCormick is an independent journalist in New York. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, the South China Morning Post and more. He recently helped launch Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of hundreds of news outlets dedicated to improving coverage of the climate story. He was also a Delacorte Magazine Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review.

Andrew received an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School, where he was valedictorian of his class and won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Prior to journalism, he was an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Andrea Fuller is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City who specializes in data analysis. She uses spreadsheets, databases, and computer code to find stories. Ms. Fuller joined the Journal in April 2014. She previously was a data journalist at Gannett Digital, The Center for Public Integrity and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is a graduate of Stanford University.

Amy Singer is a writer and editor specializing in legal issues. She worked at The American Lawyer magazine for 20 years, covering topics that included the death penalty, product liability, white-collar crime, takeover battles, immigration and women in the law. Among several honors, Singer won a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best Single Article for her editing of Recipe for Disaster, an investigative feature on the misconduct and miscalculations of lawyers defending Morgan Stanley in a lawsuit brought by billionaire Ronald Perelman. She wrote one of the lead articles in Can America Enforce Its Drug Laws, which won a National Magazine Award for Single Topic Issue. 

While crime and justice issues have been a central focus of her career, enhanced by a one-year fellowship to attend Yale Law School, Singer has also covered a range of subjects outside the law. She has edited at BusinessWeek and Thomson Reuters, and she worked at The New York Times as a news assistant and wrote for several sections of the paper, including the Sunday Magazine. She has also written for The Nation, Marie Claire and other publications. She won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, Honorary Mention, for her Marie Claire magazine story, "Girls Sentenced to Abuse," in which she investigated claims of assault and sexual abuse of girls held in an Alabama juvenile detention. 

Singer attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School.

Alyson Martin is the editor of Columbia News Service and a thesis adviser. Martin has also taught Reporting and Business of Media at the j-school.

Martin has covered cannabis and the war on drugs for more than a decade. She is the co-author of A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition (The New Press)and co-founder of Cannabis Wire, an independent newsroom that has received grants from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. She writes a daily, paid newsletter.

Alexandra Zayas is a deputy managing editor at ProPublica, running a team of reporters and overseeing senior editors of its global public health and visual storytelling teams. Since joining ProPublica in 2017, stories she edited have won two National Magazine Awards, two George Polk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She worked at the Tampa Bay Times for 12 years, ultimately as the newspaper’s enterprise editor. As a reporter, her investigation into abuse at unlicensed religious children’s homes won the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

She also teaches investigative journalism at Poynter.

Alex Clark is a video journalist and filmmaker covering the intersections of science, race, and media. His recent work includes co-producing the feature PBS NOVA film "Crypto Decoded” (2022) and editing for “The Picture Taker” (2022).

Previously Alex produced and hosted Vox’s Emmy-nominated series “Glad You Asked” and the NOVA Education series "Misinformation Nation," which helps teens identify and combat misinformation. He was honored as one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class of 2022.


Alex holds an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches Image & Sound video courses.

Alan Chin was born and raised in New York City’s Chinatown. Since 1996, he has worked as a freelance photojournalist reporting for the New York Times and other publications from China, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Central Asia, and Ukraine, as well as extensively in the United States. Alan is also Managing Director of Facing Change: Documenting America / Documenting DETROIT, a community-based photojournalism initiative, and a winner of the 2017 Knight Foundation Detroit Arts Challenge. Additionally, Alan is both writing and photographing a book on his ancestral region of Toishan in southern China, and a founding partner of Red Hook Editions, a small press specializing in photography books. His images are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Detroit Institute of Art.

Akisa Omulepu is an Emmy-nominated documentarian, director, producer, and editor. She directed and produced “A Dream Deferred: The Broken Promise of New York City Public Housing” for PBS, which was nominated for two Emmys. Akisa was the first Black woman to direct “Great Performances” on PBS in the show’s 50-year history. 

A native New Yorker, Akisa lived in Nairobi, Kenya for eight years working as a foreign correspondent, producer, and entertainment manager. While in Kenya, she launched her production company, executive produced and hosted a weekly television show, and was a part of the NBC Nightly News production team that covered the Westgate Mall al-Shabab terrorist attack, among other things.

Akisa serves as a judge for the Primetime Emmys, Daytime Emmys, the News & Documentary Emmys, and the NAACP Image Awards. She is a member of The Directors Guild of America (DGA), The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Television Academy), a lifetime member of The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. 

Akisa started her career in academia teaching mathematics in a public school in the South Bronx, and at the City University of New York. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is a Yale World Fellow.

Adiel Kaplan is an investigative reporter and editor at NBC News, where she works on cross-platform investigative projects, often with a data focus. A print reporter by training, Kaplan writes articles for NBCNews.com and works with producers to bring those stories to visual audiences on Nightly News, the TODAY Show, NBC News NOW and MSNBC. At Columbia, she teaches investigative reporting for the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting and the Data Journalism program.

Abigail Deutsch is a freelance writer and editor whose work appears in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Magazine, Poetry, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, n+1, Bookforum and other publications.

She is a winner of the Center for Fiction’s Roger Shattuck Award for Criticism and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She has also received the Editors Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine and was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She graduated from the Journalism School in 2009.

Jeff DelViscio is currently Chief Multimedia Editor/Executive Producer at Scientific American. He is the former director of multimedia at STAT, where he oversaw all visual, audio and interactive journalism. Before that, he spent over eight years at the New York Times, where he worked on five different desks across the paper. He holds dual master's degrees from Columbia in journalism and in earth and environmental sciences. He has worked aboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2018. His work has won numerous awards, including two News and Documentary Emmy Awards.