Faculty
Brooke Kroeger, director, has worked in every print medium. At Newsday, she served as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard days of United Press International with postings in Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to London to serve as the agency's chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She started with the wire service in its Chicago bureau, and over the course of four years, wrote about everything from local and state politics to sports.
Over the years, her freelanced work has appeared in numerous women's magazines as well as in The New York Times, Newsday, Prologue and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Professor Kroeger is the author of Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (Fall 2003) and two biographies: Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (1999) and Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994). She was the principal consultant for the PBS documentary on Nellie Bly for The American Experience, titled,"Around the World in 72 Days."
A selection of her work can be viewed at brookekroeger.com.
Mohamad Bazzi , Newsday’s Middle East Bureau Chief since January 2003, was the paper’s lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath, and set up Newsday bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut. He joins NYU’s faculty as the 2007 Edward R. Murrow fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written extensively about Sunni-Shiite tensions and militant Islam, including profiles of extremists operating in Iraq. He also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Lebanon, as well as the Palestinian uprising. For six months after the Sept. 11th attacks, he was on special assignment reporting on the rise of militant Islam. He traveled from London to Cairo to Pakistan chronicling the emergence of the Al-Qaeda network and its ideological roots. In nearly 10 years on staff at Newsday, he served as the paper’s United Nations Bureau Chief and was a metro reporter covering New York City transportation, the City University system and neighborhood issues.
He is a graduate of the City University of New York.
Affiliated Faculty
Robert Boynton is the director of Magazine Writing in the graduate program. He has written about culture and ideas for The New Yorker (where he has been a contributing editor) and Harper's (where he has been a senior editor). His byline has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, The New Republic, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, Newsday, Salon, Rolling Stone, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, Time Digital, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Tribune, and Manhattan, Inc. A selection of his work can be found at robertboynton.com
Suketu Mehta is a journalist and fiction writer. His nonfiction book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. Mehta is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.
Brigitte Sion is currently an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU's Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism. She received her M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, where she majored in "Covering religions and beliefs," and her Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University. Professor Sion's dissertation focused on memorials and commemorative practices in Germany and Argentina. She is also the author of four books (in French) — including one about theater performances in Nazi camps and one on the history of Reform Judaism in Switzerland.
