Robert S. Boynton is the director of Magazine Writing in the department. 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..

Brooke Kroeger was UN Correspondent for Newsday, deputy metropolitan editor at New York Newsday (1984-86) and UPI correspondent over 12 years in Chicago (1973-76), Brussels (1977), London (1977-79) and Tel Aviv (1979-83), where she was bureau chief from 1980-83. From 1983-4, she was UPI's chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition, her byline has appeared in The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Prologue (Magazine of the National Archives), Mirabella, New York Newsday, McCalls, Avenue, Working Woman and New Woman. Professor Kroeger is the author of Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (2003), Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (1999) and Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994). She was the principal consultant for the 1997 PBS documentary on Nellie Bly, The American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days. Professor Kroeger was the 1999-2000 Fellow in the Program in African-American Studies at Princeton University and the recipient of a 1995 Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Pamela Newkirk is the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media and A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters. Prior to joining the faculty, Newkirk worked as a daily journalist at four different news organizations, including New York Newsday, where in 1990 she was among the reporting team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for spot news. Her primary areas of interest are race in the news media and African American art and culture. Her articles have been published in a wide range of publications.

Michael Norman is the author of These Good Men: Friendships Forged in War, a memoir published to critical acclaim in 1990. He is a former reporter and columnist for The New York Times national, foreign and metropolitan desks. Norman was the inaugural writer for the following New York Times columns: A Sense of Place (1993 monthly column that explored the dislocations of modern life in one suburban town); Lessons (1987-88 weekly national column on education); and Our Towns (1984-85 twice weekly column on life outside New York City). Norman writes regularly for various national publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ Magazine. His work is syndicated both here and abroad.

Mary W. Quigley is a journalist who has writes about women and work issues. Her most recent book is Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide (St. Martin's Press, 2004). She is also the co-author of And What Do You Do? When Women Chose to Stay Home. Wildcat Canyon press, 2000). She started teaching as an adjunct in 1979 after she received her master's in journalism from NYU. She teaches research, reporting and writing courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Mitchell Stephens is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His latest book, the rise of the image the fall of the word, a historical analysis of our current communications revolution, was published by Oxford University Press. Professor Stephens is also the author of Broadcast News, the most widely used radio and television news textbook, and the co-author of Writing and Reporting the News. In recent years, he has written numerous articles on media issues and aspects of contemporary thought for publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Columbia Journalism Review. Professor Stephens recently completed a trip around the world, during which he reported on globalization for the public radio program "Marketplace " and the webzine Feed and wrote essays on travel for LonelyPlanet.com. His commentaries have aired on NPR's "On the Media." Professor Stephens has been history consultant to the Newseum.

Carol Sternhell was previously an editor of The Harvard Crimson, a copy editor for Newsday, a general assignment reporter for The New York Post and a freelance magazine writer. Her literary criticism has appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation and The New York Times Book Review. Her articles on feminist scholarship appear in Ms. She is the associate editor of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Ted Conover is the author of four books of nonfiction, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York's Sing Sing Prison. Newjack won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College (1981) in anthropology, Conover spent two years at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar (1982-84). In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from Amherst and in 2003, a Guggenheim Fellowship. In recent years he has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the University of Oregon. A contributor to publications including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, he is researching a new nonfiction book about a handful of roads around the world and the costs and benefits of connectedness.

Steven Johnson is a Department of Journalism Distinguished Writer in Residence. He is the author of the bestselling book Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (Scribner, 2004) and the author of the widely-acclaimed books Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software (Scribner, 2001) and Interface Culture: How Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate (Harper Collins, 1997). Emergence was named a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. His newest book is the bestseller Everything Bad is Good For You: Why Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead, 2005). The work illustrates the complexity in contemporary video games, television shows and movies and the educational value of them. Professor Johnson's writing has also appeared in numerous publications, such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper's, The London Guardian, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He writes the monthly "Emerging Technology" column for Discover magazine and is a Contributing Editor to Wired. Professor Johnson has made numerous television and radio appearances as a technology commentator. He earned his B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1990) and his M.A. (1991) in English from Columbia University.