Faculty

Prof. Brooke Kroeger

  brooke.kroeger@nyu.edu

Brooke Kroeger 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.

Prof. 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.

“Muslim Women Fight for Power” Young, educated women demand more authority at the mosque by Aisha Gawad