Faculty
Professors who teach in Reporting New York come from a variety of backgrounds, some from the academic community, others from newspapers, wire services or magazines. We also have a large number of adjunct professors who come to us from a number of New York newsrooms and thus provide students practical and up-to-date information and experience.
While students also have the opportunity to study with other full-time faculty and teaching professionals in the Department, the core professors of Reporting New York are:
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Yvonne Latty
Clinical Associate Professor New York/Nation, Director
Yvonne Latty is the Director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation programs at the Institute. She is currently producing and directing a feature-length documentary on the effects of uranium contamination in Navajo Nation.
Latty is the author of In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive (Polipoint Press 2006) and the critically acclaimed We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins/Amistad 2004).
She worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years where she was an award winning reporter specializing in urban issues. Latty was featured in two History Channel's Documentaries, Honor Deferred and the Emmy award winner A Distant Shore: African Americans at D-Day.
Born and raised in New York City, she earned a BFA in Film/Television and later an MA in Journalism from New York University.
Her nonfiction short stories have been published in It's A Girl:Women Writers On Raising Daughters, (Seal 2006) The African American History Bibliography (Oxford Press 2008) and Callaloo, the premier African-American literary magazine.
In Conflict was turned into a theater piece that premiered at Temple University in October 2007, received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was awarded The Fringe First Award. In Conflict played Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater. In Conflict was also at the heart of a Wilton, Conn. high school play that after being banned by the school principal, became an international story and was then performed in several Off- Broadway theaters, including The Public Theater.
Both plays were published by Playscripts in June 2008.
Latty is a Dart Fellow for Journalism and Trauma and a Leeway Foundation Fellow. She has lectured nationally.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, BET.com, The Washington Post and numerous other media outlets. She has been featured in over 100 media outlets including, Newsweek, CNN, The New York Times, CNN International, Fox News, NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press.
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Jim MacMillan
Adjunct Faculty
Jim MacMillan is an independent multimedia journalist, university educator and instructional new media consultant, based in Philadelphia. MacMillan spent last year as an assistant professor on the convergence journalism faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Previously, he served as the senior photographer, a photo-columnist and the first solo video journalist at the Philadelphia Daily News, where he worked from 1991-2008.
On leave from the Daily News in 2004-2005, MacMillan was a photographer and photo editor for the Associated Press in Iraq, personally covered over 200 combat missions and worked at times managing the AP’s photo reports and staff development in Baghdad. MacMillan was honored with the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, and was included in the Associated Press photo team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
In 2006-2007, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma later in 2007. MacMillan led photojournalism workshops at Tufts University, and undergraduate courses at Temple University.
Last year, MacMillan was named one of the Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet by Photo District News, and Philadelphia Magazine’s 2009 Best of Philly “Nuevo Journalist,” both for his experiments in social media.
MacMillan also serves as the journalist-in-residence at War News Radio at Swarthmore College, and leads journalism innovation seminars at Temple University.
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Adrian Mihai
Adjunct Faculty
Professor Mihai, the broadcast coordinator of the department, is a freelance videographer, independent producer and multi-media designer. He produced and directed several documentaries, "E Pluribus Unum" (1994), a film that investigates the spiritual milieu of first generation immigrants from Romania, as they become integrated into the various folds of the American society, "Someone Has Killed The Sphinx" (1995), a film offers an analysis of Romanian social realities following the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, as seen through the staging of"Oedipus", at the Romanian National Opera House, "Crossroads" (1998), a film that takes a look at Columbia University's Graduate Acting Program, created and steered by renowned Romanian-American director Andrei Serban, "E Biagoresqo Drom / The Endless Journey", a documentary about the Rroma/Gypsy communities of Romania. Professor Mihai works as freelance cameraman for various news org. such Bloomberg televison news, BBC America, Austrian TV, CNN. Since 1996, he has taught undergraduates and graduates "Electronic News Gathering".
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William Serrin
Associate Professor
William Serrin is a former labor and workplace correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town, a book on the collapse of the U.S. steel industry and the effects on mill towns, and The Company and the Union: The Civilized Relationship of the General Motors Corporation and The United Automobile Workers. Serrin reported for The Detroit Free Press and Newsweek and has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review and The Village Voice. He was a member the Detroit Free Press team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1967 Detroit riots. In addition, Serrin was a recipient of the George Polk Award for reporting on the Kent State killings in 1970, the Sidney Hillman Award, and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.