Shelia Coronel — the Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism and the Director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism — will return as a faculty co-leader for the 2026 Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) journalism group. The upcoming session marks her fourth year with the program.
FASPE prepares journalism students and early-career journalists for the ethical challenges of their profession. Up to 16 fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, visiting historical sites and engaging with experts in seminars to study the ethical breakdown of the professions in Nazi Germany and what can be learned from this regarding the ethical responsibilities of professionals today.
“Journalists today are grappling with profound dilemmas as they figure out how to behave as ethical professionals at a time of democratic backsliding,” said Professor Coronel. “FASPE has never been more important or timely. I'm honored to be part of this year's journalism faculty.”
Since 2011, more than 10 Columbia Journalism School faculty members and alumni have supported the program — including Coronel, who has been with the J-School since 2006.
Coronel began her career as a journalist during the twilight of the Marcos dictatorship. She wrote for the underground opposition press and later for mainstream magazines and newspapers, eventually going on to co-found the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism before she came to lead the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
Like FASPE, Columbia Journalism School is committed to shaping a new generation of ethical, reflective journalists ready to tackle today’s media challenges and prevent the repeat of one of the darkest moments in human history.
Since 2011, Columbia Journalism School faculty have played a key role in shaping FASPE’s journalism program, extending the school’s legacy of ethical, public-interest reporting. Spanning disciplines from documentary filmmaking to environmental and investigative reporting, FASPE faculty from CJS include Andie Tucher, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism and Director of the Ph.D. Program (a six-time FASPE faculty member); Robe Imbriano, Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights and the Documentary Journalism Program; Bill Grueskin, Professor of Professional Practice (a two-time FASPE faculty member); Marguerite Holloway, Professor of Professional Practice and Director of Science and Environmental Journalism (a two-time FASPE faculty member); and Professors emeriti Ari Goldman (a three-time FASPE faculty member) and Dale Maharidge.
Learn more about the historic program here.
