Journalism Faculty

Gaiutra Bahadur

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Gaiutra Bahadur is the author of the narrative history Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, shortlisted in 2014 for the Orwell Prize for artful political writing. Her work has appeared in The New York TimesThe New York Review of BooksThe New RepublicThe Nation, Foreign Policy and The Guardian, among other publications. The recipient of literary residencies from MacDowell and Italy’s Bellagio Center, she’s a two-time winner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award for prose. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several collections of creative writing, including Nonstop Metropolis and Go Home! She holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia and a B.A. in English Literature from Yale. She won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard in 2007-2008, in reward for her decade as a daily newspaper staff writer, covering immigration, the Iraq war, and Texas government for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Austin American Statesman.

Spring 2022 Courses: Journalism, Ethics & the Law, Independent Study in Journalism, Internship in Journalism

[ Journalism ]Pictured: Larry Durst

Larry Durst

Larry Durst is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. His research interests include critical and cultural theory;…

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[ Journalism ]Pictured: Juan Arredondo

Juan Arredondo

Juan Arredondo is a Colombian American documentary photographer who has chronicled human rights and conflict in Colombia, Venezuela, and Central…

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[ Journalism ]Picture of Wendy Fisher

Wendy Fisher

Wendy Fisher is a 34-year veteran of ABC News, having served most recently as Senior Vice President of Newsgathering. She…

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[ Journalism ]Pictured: Troy Graham

Troy Graham

Troy Graham was a newspaper reporter for nearly twenty years. He spent a dozen years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where his…

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[ Journalism ]Pictured: Larry Jaffee

Larry Jaffee

Larry Jaffee has taught journalism and writing since the mid-1980s. At the New York Institute of Technology, where he taught…

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[ Journalism ]Carla Murphy

Carla Murphy

I spent 15 years as a social justice or local community reporter. I do journalism for or with low wealth or communities of color–not about them…

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[ Journalism ]Jim Pensiero

Jim Pensiero

F. James (Jim) Pensiero is a retired editor and news executive with 42 years of media-industry experience. He retired as…

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[ Journalism ]Robin Wilson-Glover

Robin Wilson-Glover

Robin Wilson-Glover has been involved in local news coverage for nearly 40 years. She has been a political reporter, an…

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