Stephen D. Solomon
Associate Professor, Journalism
Associate Director, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Director, Business and Economic Reporting
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Journalism, Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Solomon is an associate professor and the associate director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is also the founder and director of the NYU Master of Arts program in Business and Economic Reporting. He teaches business writing as well as courses on the First Amendment and was awarded NYU's Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.
His most recent book, Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer, was published in July 2007 by the University of Michigan Press. The book explores the landmark 1963 case (Abington School District v. Schempp) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized prayer and Bible reading in the public schools violated the First Amendment — a case that is still controversial today as Americans debate the role of religion in public life. Professor Solomon is also co-author of Building 6: The Tragedy at Bridesburg, an investigation of the working conditions that caused the deaths of 54 men from lung cancer at Rohm and Haas, a Fortune 500 chemical company in Philadelphia. The victims' families later won a multi-million dollar settlement from the company. Professor Solomon was a writer at Fortune magazine and has written for many national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Nation. His articles have won the two most prestigious awards for business writing, the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence, as well as the Sidney Hillman Prize.
More information: http://stephendsolomon.com
Adam L. Penenberg
Assistant Professor, Journalism
Assistant Director, Business and Economic Reporting
B.A., Economics, Reed College
Adam Penenberg is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, [Inside], Playboy and Mother Jones. His most recent book, Viral Loop: How Social Networks Unleash Revolutionary Business Growth, will be published on September 29, 2009.
A former Senior Editor at Forbes and reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of The New Republic portrayed in the film Shattered Glass (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg). A chapter of his first book, Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America (Perseus Books) was excerpted in The Sunday New York Times Magazine, while a portion of his second, Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs (HarperBusiness, Nov. 2003), ran in USA Today. Penenberg has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" with Katie Couric, CNN's "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CNBC and NPR. Currently he is a contributing writer for Fast Company.
More information: http://www.penenberg.com.
Pamela Kruger
Adjunct Professor and Internship Director
M.A., English, Columbia University
B.A., English and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Kruger is a writer, editor, and editorial consultant. She has been a contributing editor/writer at The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune Small Business, Lifetime Television, and Child magazine. Her book, A Love Like No Other, (Riverhead, 2006), was praised by reviewers as "magical," "gripping," and "complex, compelling, and compulsively readable." She recently was an editor-writer on a Business Week book series, and was a contributor to several anthologies, including Unbuttoned (Harvard Common Press, 2009). More information: http://www.pamkruger.com/
Adjunct Faculty
Mike McIntire
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
B.A., Political Science, Hartwick College
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before joining the Times in 2003, he was the investigative editor at The Hartford Courant, where he was a 2001 Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting on medical malpractice and was part of a team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. He has also been a national writer at the Associated Press in New York, and a reporter and editor at several Connecticut newspapers. His investigation of dangerous conditions at nuclear power plants earned him a 1997 National Press Foundation Award, and he received the 1992 Scripps Howard Foundation National Public Service Award for exposing political corruption in Connecticut.
Jonathan Dahl
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Editor-in-Chief, SmartMoney magazine
B.A., Columbia College
M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Jonathan Dahl is the editor in chief of SmartMoney, The Wall Street Journal's award-winning personal finance magazine. A 19-year veteran of the Journal, Dahl oversaw the magazine and its Web site during the tumultuous financial crash that drew increased national attention to personal finance coverage. For 2008, the magazine's "Tough Customer" column won a Deadline Club Award, one of several honors that year. Its investigative pieces on annuities and retirement funds helped lead to reforms within the industry and more oversight from Washington.
At the Journal, Dahl served as a reporter, senior writer and bureau chief. He was one of the founding editors of the "Weekend Journal" section. Earlier in his career, he covered such topics as the asbestos industry and homelessness. His story "Missing in America," a first-person account of his search for a missing homeless brother, was nominated by the Journal for a Pulitzer Prize. He came to SmartMoney in 2006. His new book, 1,001 Things They Won't Tell You (Workman Publishing), is based on the magazine's long-running "10 Things" column and reveals insider information from doctors, bankers and dozens of other professions.
Darren McDermott
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
B.A., Asian Studies and Political Science, Amherst College
M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Darren McDermott is Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, overseeing the global homepage management team, subscriber-only sections of the site such as Business and Markets, and the development of premium products for the WSJ franchise.
McDermott has been a reporter and editor at Dow Jones for nearly 15 years, including two stints as a reporter and editor in Asia. He joined the company as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York in 1993, and was sent to Singapore as Bureau Chief in 1994. He joined The Asian Wall Street Journal as Singapore correspondent in 1995, and took on a regional financial beat. He returned to New York in 1999 as an economics correspondent for the Journal. He left the company briefly to serve as editor in chief of worldlyinvestor.com and then director of online editorial for the Industry Standard. In 2001 he returned to Asia with the Journal as Hong Kong Bureau Chief, in charge of coverage of finance and markets, technology, travel and consumer goods across the region. Prior to joining WSJ.com in 2007, he was deputy chief of the Journal's health and science bureau, helping oversee a dozen reporters covering the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, medicine and science issues.
