Recent Courses:

• Reporting and Writing
• News Video
• News Literacy in a Digital Age​
• Internship in Journalism

Public Scholarship:

•  Facilitator and Speaker, AI CAMP, Hunter College, January 6-8, 2025; “AI Literacy” and “GenAI Assisted Writing Assignments”
  
• Emcee and Keynote Speaker, Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Awards Ceremony, The National Press Club, Washington DC, December 4, 2024
  
• Speaker, CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy Conference: “Student Motivation and Engagement: AI and Non-AI Assignments to Enhance Learning,” October 25, 2024
  
• Moderator, Pulitzer Center Talk, “How Science Journalists Confront Bias in Their Stories and in Themselves,” Roosevelt House, October 9, 2024
  
• Speaker, ACERT Talk: AI in the Classroom: Syllabi Statements and Assignments, August 19, 2024
  
• Emcee, World Press Freedom Day Awards, National Press Club, Washington DC, May 1, 2024
  
• Emcee and Keynote Speaker, Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Awards Ceremony, The University Club, December 11, 2023
  
• Interview with award-winning journalist Anna Louie Sussman on reporting on gender issues at a luncheon for top Hunter journalism students, October 4, 2023
  
• Presenter, “ChatGPT and Fall 2023,” ACERT talk on best practices for the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, August 23. 2023
  
• Moderator: "The Vanishing Invisible Forest: Telling Climate Stories" with award-winning journalists Andrew Robinson and Dominic Smith, Roosevelt House, April 18. 2023
  
• Presenter, “ChatGPT:  What's happening? Examples from the classroom,” ACERT talk on how to use ChatGPT in the classroom, April 18, 2023
  
• Podcast, “The Decline of Press Freedom,” with Nii Akrofi, The Foreign Press Podcast , February 20, 2023
• Emcee and Keynote Speech, “Reimagining the Journalism of the Future,” AFC-USA Scholarships and Honorary Awards Ceremony, Roosevelt House, December 15, 2022
• Interviewer, “How to Win the Information War” with Nina Jankowicz, Oct. 20, 2022
• Moderator, “Fact-checking in the Age of Misinformation” with Washington Post Reporter Salvador Rizzo, Hunter College, April 6, 2022
• Moderator, “Reporting Between Borders,” Roosevelt House and Pulitzer Center Talk, March 15, 2022
• “A Thousand Cuts: The Erosion of Press Freedom Around the World,” AFC-USA Scholarships and Honorary Awards Ceremony, December 22, 2021
• "How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate," Princeton Chamber of Commerce, May 6, 2021
• "Teaching Students how to Think like Fact-checkers," Roundtable, Breakthroughs in 2E Education Conference, March 11, 2021
• “Fake News, Real Consequences”, Breakthroughs in 2E Education Conference, March 11, 2021
• “A Conversation with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi,” Hunter College Journalism Program, February 17, 2021
• “Two More COVID-19 Casualties: Local News and the Truth” AFC-USA Scholarships and Awards Virtual Ceremony, December 18, 2020
• “How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate,” New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), December 4. 2020
• "World Press Freedom Day: Little to Celebrate But Much to Defend," AFC-USA World Press Freedom Day Panel, May 3, 2020
• "The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World"  AFC-USA Inaugural Awards and Scholarships Ceremony, Roosevelt House, November 4, 2019
• NewsLiteracyMatters.com, Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Technology Showcase,  Hunter College ACERT, September 24, 2019
• "information Neighborhoods", Curriculum Roundtable, NAMLE Conference, Washington, D.C. June 28, 2019
• "News Literacy in a Digital Age: Teaching a New Core Competency and English Composition", Medgar Evers College, January 23, 2019
• "A Conversation with Ann Goldstein", translator of the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante, Concordia College, January 8, 2019
• CUNY IT Conference, "How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate",  John Jay College, November 30, 2018
• "A Conversation with Carola Lovering"  author of Tell Me Lies, Bronxville Library, October 30, 2018
• Podcasting Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, October 12, 2018
• "Academic Freedom and Social Media", Academic Freedom Mini Conference, Hunter College, May 2, 2018
• "The Return of Cold War Nuclear Fears", Moderator for  Pulitzer Center Talk with Rachel Oswald and Tom Hundley, Hunter College's Roosevelt House, March 28, 2018
• "Public Speaking for Student Scholars", Hunter College, January 31, 2018
•  “A Conversation with National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee”, Concordia College, January 23, 2018 (article)
•  “News Literacy Tips for Teens”, Bronxville High School, December 1, 2017
• “Capturing Climate Change” with award winning photojournalist Sean Gallagher, Pulitzer Center talk at Guttman Community College, September 26, 2017
• "How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate", Speaker, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Educator's Symposium: From Fake News to AI: Teaching Journalism in Contentious Times, Columbia University, September 19, 2107
• Global News Literacy Conference: The Future of News Literacy in a Connected World; Stony Brook University, August 13-15, 2017
• "The Global Impact of the Refugee Crisis: Journalists Report from the Field", Moderator and Organizer, Roosevelt House, New York, April 19, 2017
• Interview, Business Insiders, “Fake News Experts Share 7 Tips to Separate Fact from Fiction”, March 3, 2017 
• Interview with FOX5 on the relationship between the White House and the press, February 14, 2017 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLmWqg6YM4&feature=youtu.be
• Presentation, “CUNY Journalism”, Manhattan High School Counselor’s Conference, Baruch College, November 2016
• "Snapchat for Journalists", Speaker, Tow Center for Digital Journalism: Educator's Symposium, Columbia University, September 21, 2016
• "Communicating with Power with the Media", Speaker, ICA Conference 2016, Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016
• "El Paso Social Services Respond to Cuban Migrant Surge", Miami Herald, May 31, 2016
• "Snapchat as a News Platform", Fellow and Speaker, Dow Jones News Fund Multimedia Training Academy, University of Texas in El Paso, May 2016
• Dow Jones News Fund Fellow, 2016
•  “News Literacy Through the Lens of the 2016 Election: News vs. Opinion” , Center for News Literacy, Stony Brook University, April 2016, http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/resource/making-sense-campaign-news-vs-opinion
• "The Transformative Nature of Multimodal Writing in Journalism", a.k.a. "How Digital Journalism Changed Everything". Speaker, Hunter College Teaching Scholarship Circle: The Digital Future of Academic Research and Writing, April 2016
•  “News Literacy Through the Lens of the 2016 Election: Truth vs. Assertion” , Center for News Literacy, Stony Brook University, March 2016, http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/resource/2016Pres-Candidatetruth
• ​"Parenting Across the Media Landscape: Tips for the Modern Family", Moderator, ICA New York, May 2015
• Public Scholarship Behind the Podium and On the Screen Half-day Workshop,  ICA Conference, Seattle, May 2014
• "Domain on the Ground", Speaker, Domain of One's Own Atlanta Incubator Conference,  April 2014
• "How To Write Your Own Food and Nutrition Story", Speaker, Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE), Houston, October 2013
•  “Writing for the Public”, Speaker, Emory University Hospital, August 2013
•  “Understanding and Evaluating Political News Sources”, Speaker, The Government, Politics and Media Institute Conference, Holy Innocent’s School, June 2013
•  “True Stories and Hard Lessons from Service Learning Projects”, Speaker, News Literacy Leadership Conference, Stony Brook University, May 2013
• “Community Engaged Learning”, Speaker, Critical Media Literacy Group,  Emory University, March 2013   
•  “Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Active and Engaged Learning”,  Speaker, Active Learning and Engagement Initiative, Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching , February 2013 
•  “How to Cover News From the Chinese and American Perspective”, Speaker, Symposium on International Communication, Nanjing, China, December 2012
•  “Public Scholarship Behind the Podium and on the Screen”, Speaker, CFDE Public Scholarship Series, October 2012 
•   “The iPad and the Listening Post”, Academic Exchange, Emory University, October 2012
•   "U.S. Healthcare-What is the Future?" Moderator, Rollins School of Public Health,  September 2012   
•  “The Power of the Image and the Case for News Literacy”, Speaker, Cultural Politics of the Visual Conference,  Nanjing, China,   May 2012    
•  “Engaging Students through iPads”, Speaker, Faculty Connect Conference, Emory University, March 2012
• Emory Journalism Program 10th Anniversary Documentary
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