Faculty Experts in Journalism
Assistant Professor (1970)
B.A. Northeastern University; M.A. Northeastern University; J.D. Suffolk University School of Law;
Mr. Brown has been on the faculty at Emerson since 1970, and has also taught a variety of courses at Northeastern University, Boston College, Bunker Hill Community College and the Massachusetts School of Law. He is a member of the New England Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association, as well as an elected member of the Northeastern University Corporation. His areas of interest include the First Amendment, international politics, civil rights issues and Third World politics & culture.
Marsha Della-Giustina
Associate Professor (1977)
B.A. Russell Sage College; M.S. Boston University; Ed.D. Boston University;
Dr. Della-Giustina has had a long career as a television news producer. Among her honors are a Gracie Award, a National Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television, and awards from the National Education Writers Association and the National Association of Government Communicators. She has two Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Society of Professional Journalists National Advisor Award, a Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education Achievement Award, and a Curriculum Design Award from the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. Her primary areas of interest include media management, political journalism, international affairs, and gender issues.
Ted Gup
Chair and Professor (2009)
B.A. Brandeis University; J.D. Case Western Reserve University School of Law;
Ted Gup has been a journalist and teacher of journalism for three decades. A former staff writer for The Washington Post and Time Magazine, he has also written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, Slate, Salon, GQ, Mother Jones, Audubon, Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, Newsweek, and other publications. He is the author of "Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life" (Doubleday, 2007) and "The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA" (Doubleday, 2000). His third book, "Mr. B. Virdot's Gift," a story of The Great Depression, is to be published by Penguin Press in 2010. He has taught at Georgetown, Case Western Reserve, Johns Hopkins and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is the winner of the Shorenstein Book Prize from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and has been a Pulitzer finalist and recipient of the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Gerald Loeb Award, the National Conservation Achievement Award and the Book-of-the-Year Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (for The Book of Honor). He has been a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Fellow of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy, a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. His interests include investigative reporting, literary journalism, magazine writing, law and ethics, intelligence and national security.
Roger House
Assistant Professor (2000)
B.A. Columbia University; M.A. Boston University; Ph.D. Boston University;
Dr. House comes to Emerson after an appointment as visiting professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has also previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Boston University and Mt. Holyoke College. In addition to being a contributing writer for the book America?s New War on Poverty, in 1995, he has also been on staff at the Providence Journal and been published in magazines such as GQ and The Nation. He is also experienced in documentary production, having served as both a researcher and producer on five radio or television documentaries since 1990.
Suzy Kim
Asisstant Professor (2009)
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Chicago;
With a background in human rights work, Dr. Kim brings praxis to historical scholarship and strives to teach history in a way that is relevant to the present. She has previously taught at Oberlin College and Boston College. Before joining the academia, she worked at MINKAHYUP Human Rights Group as the International Secretary in Seoul, South Korea. She continues her human rights work as the Korea Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA. Her current focus of research is North Korean social history, particularly looking at mass mobilization in everyday village life from 1945 to 1950. She is working on a manuscript tentatively titled, "Politics of Empowerment: Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950." Her other research interests include gender history, oral history, and social theory.
Janet Kolodzy
Associate Professor (1999)
B.S.J. Northwestern University; M.S.J. Northwestern University;
Ms. Kolodzy has been a reporter, writer, and producer, including positions as Senior Writer/Editor at CNN International, Senior Producer at CNN World Report, and Assistant State Editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She was one of twelve journalists to receive a Michigan Journalism Fellowship in 1990-91 to study at the University of Michigan, where she concentrated on Eastern European history, politics, and culture. Ms. Kolodzy spent the summer of 1999 working for CNN Interactive. Her primary areas of interest are international news and the impact of convergence on broadcast journalism.
Jerry Lanson
Associate Professor (1999)
B.A. Haverford College; M.A. University of Missouri, Columbia;
A writing coach and commentator on opinion pages, Mr. Lanson joined the faculty at Emerson in 1999 after four years on the faculty at Syracuse University. Mr. Lanson is a former Deputy City Editor and Peninsula Bureau Chief of the San Jose Mercury News in San Jose, California. He was part of the city-desk staff awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. He is the co-author of two textbooks, Writing and Reporting the News (3nd edition, 2007) and News In a New Century: Reporting in an Age of Converging Media (1999), and has coached editors and reporters at newspapers ranging from The Christian Science Monitor to The Boston Globe. He contributes regularly to The Monitor's opinion pages. Among his honors are a National Teaching Award from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and a Gold Key teaching award from Emerson students in 2008. His areas of interest include journalism ethics and the craft of writing.
Mark Leccese
Assistant Professor (2003)
B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.A. Boston College;
A veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, and magazine writer, Mr. Leccese covered politics and government in Massachusetts for more than 25 years and won several New England and Massachusetts Press Association awards. He has worked as a correspondent for The Boston Globe, political reporter for the Fitchburg Sentinel,editor-in-chief of The Tab Newspapers, State House bureau chief for Community Newspaper Company,\ and was the founding editor of Beacon Hill: The Newspaper of Massachusetts Government. His freelance reporting and writing has appeared in publications including The Columbia Journalism Review, The Quill, The Boston Phoenix, Commonwealth, and State Legislatures, and he has been a contributing editor at Boston Magazine. Mr. Leccese has taught journalism and writing at Boston University, Northeastern University, and Boston College. His primary areas of interest are public affairs journalism and online journalism, and his research is focused on political blogs.
Paul Niwa
Assistant Professor (2001)
B.A. University of California, Riverside; M.S. Columbia University;
Mr. Niwa has launched and helped launch two international television networks, six newscasts and a streaming media newscast for NBC, CNBC and StockHouse Media, Canada's largest internet company (as Senior Vice President responsible for content at the company’s eight global editorial centers). In 1999, he helped NBC create "Early Today," and in 1996 he launched the award winning "NBC Asia Evening News" in Hong Kong. He produced CNBC's "Today’s Business" and the nationally syndicated newscast "This Morning’s Business." He's won two Golden Mike awards for radio reporting and documentary.
Emmannuel Paraschos
Graduate Program Director and Professor (1988)
B.J. University of Missouri; M.A. University of Missouri; Ph.D. University of Missouri;
Dr. Paraschos was formerly the Dean of the European Institute for International Communication in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Chairperson of the Journalism Department at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. He served as a Fulbright Professor in Scandinavia where he taught at the Norwegian Institute of Journalism and universities in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He has been published in, among others, Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Communication, College Press Review, and Journalism Educator. His most recent book is Media Law and Regulation in the European Union and his most recent book chapter is "Religion and Freedom of Expression Law in the European Union" in Religion, Law and Freedom: A Global Perspective. Since 1994 he has served as co-publisher of Media Ethics magazine. In 1995, he won Emerson's Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. His primary areas of research and expertise are media law and ethics, global journalism, print and multimedia journalism, propaganda and the press, news media and foreign policy and the role of the press in a democratic society.
Tim Riley
Journalist-in-Residence (2009)
B.M. Oberlin Conservatory; M.M. Eastman School of Music;
NPR critic Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988); Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage1992, Da Capo 1999); Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992); Fever: How Rock'N'Roll Transformed Gender In America (St. Martin's/Picador 2005). He recently completed a major new John Lennon biography for W.W. Norton, which will appear in 2010. He has lectured widely on Censorship in the Arts and Rock History, and was Brown University's Critic In Residence in 2008.
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Melinda Robins
Associate Professor (1996)
B.A. University of Bridgeport; M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. University of Georgia;
Dr. Robins has extensive international journalism and media experience. She has been a reporter and editor at the The New Haven Register and The Journal-Courier in Connecticut. She has served as a media consultant for the Jamaican government, has been a Fulbright Scholar in Uganda and India, and has conducted workshops for journalists in Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Her research interests include media globalization, media in developing countries, issues of representation, and gender.
Carole Simpson
Leader-In-Residence (2007)
A.B. University of Michigan;
After 24 years, 3-time Emmy-award winning anchor and senior correspondent, Carole Simpson, retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communication in Boston. She is a member of the full-time faculty and teaches courses in public affairs reporting, political communication, and broadcast journalism. As Leader-in-Residence, she mentors students and conducts public seminars on issues of importance such as the First Amendment, the historic function of the press as a watchdog on government, and the importance of an informed electorate. In the meantime she is completing a book on her 40 years as a pioneering African American woman in the field of journalism. She was also recently named to the Board of Trustees of Save the Children, and the National Commission to Build a Healthier America. Simpson is also a commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent political analyst on "Larry King Live."
Douglas Struck
Associate Chair and Journalist-In-Residence (2009)
B.S. Pennsylvania State University;
Doug Struck was a reporter for more than 30 years at the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and other newspapers. He has extensive foreign reporting experience, and served as bureau chief in the Middle East, Asia and Canada. He reported extensively from Iraq over 16 years, and covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the West Bank , East Timor and the southern Philippines. He reported from all 50 states, six continents, and developed a specialty in global warming reporting. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2003-2004, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002 and a fellow in Asian Studies at George Washington University in 1998-1999. He has taught at Boston University and continues to write in environmental journalism.
Bradford Verter
Historian-In-Residence (2008)
B.A. Columbia University; M.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. Princeton University;
