David  Abrahamson,

Professor of Journalism, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

Abrahamson is a professor of journalism and the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Medill.

Email:

d-abrahamson@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-467-4159  

Richard  Alvarez,

Lecturer

Alvarez is a new media lecturer and author of "Generator/Flash Web Development" by New Riders Publishing.

Email:

r-alvarez3@northwestern.edu

Phone:  312-503-3800  

Scott  Anderson,

Assistant Professor

Anderson has 30 years of experience in the media business, half of that in online and interactive.
Email: scott-anderson@northwestern.edu
Phone:  312-445-0722 

Beth  Bennett,

Assistant Professor

Bennett is an award-winning television news reporter and producer and started teaching at Medill in 2003 as an adjunct lecturer.

Email: e-bennett6@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-2060

Larry  Birnbaum,

Larry Birnbaum is co-director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory, and teaches courses in the Medill/McCormick Center for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism.

Email: birnbaum@eecs.northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-491-3640

Michele  Bitoun,

Assistant Professor, Senior Director of Undergraduate Education and Teaching Excellence

Bitoun is the senior director of Undergraduate Education and Teaching Excellence and director of the Journalism Residency Program.

Email:

m-bitoun@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-2785 

Caryn  Brooks,

Assistant Professor

Brooks has been a reporter, editor, executive producer, managing editor, and news director in several television newsrooms and has won five Emmy awards for television coverage.

Email:

caryn-brooks@northwestern.edu

Phone: 708-846-1855

Janice  Castro,

Senior Director, Graduate Education and Teaching Excellence; Assistant Professor

Castro teaches interactive storytelling, reporting, magazine publishing and media management, and is Medill's coordinator for the Carnegie-Knight News 21 journalism initiative.

Email:

jcastro@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-1770 

Susan  Mango  Curtis,

Assistant Professor

Curtis is an educator, designer and consultant who worked as an assistant managing editor for the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal before coming to Medill.

Email:

mangocurtis@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-2999 

Michael  A.  Deas,

Lecturer

Deas teaches multimedia reporting and editing and spent 15 years at the Chicago Tribune, where he edited a variety of news stories on the national-foreign desk.

Email:

m-deas@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-491-5904  

Jack  Doppelt,

Professor

Doppelt is a journalism professor at Medill, publisher of Immigrant Connect and RefugeeLives and a faculty associate at NU’s Institute for Policy Research who is a visiting professor at NU-Q in Doha.

Email:

j-doppelt@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-491-3955  

Craig  Duff,

Professor

Craig Duff is an award-winning video journalist and documentary television director, producer and writer, specializing in multi-platform storytelling and solo journalism.

Email:
craig.duff@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-4090

Steven  S.  Duke,

Associate Professor

Duke is the newspaper sector head, as well as associate professor and managing director of training with the Media Management Center and the Readership Institute.

Email: s-duke@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-467-4374  

Eric  Ferkenhoff,

Assistant Professor

Ferkenhoff began his reporting career in Kansas City and now teaches full time at Medill, but still writes, mainly for Time magazine and the New York Times.

Email: e-ferkenhoff@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-2442  

Abigail  M.  Foerstner,

Assistant Professor

Foerstner’s 34-year career as a journalist began when she initiated science and environmental coverage as a staff reporter for the Suburban Trib sections of the Chicago Tribune. She teaches graduate health and science reporting at Medill's downtown newsroom.

Email:

a-foerstner@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-7664 

Douglas  Foster,

Associate Professor

Foster is a former newspaper reporter, magazine editor, television correspondent, and documentary producer who now teaches feature writing to graduates and undergraduates while overseeing the Journalism Residency Program in South Africa. 

Email:

dmfoster@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 847.467.7661

Stephan  Garnett,

Lecturer

Garnett has a 30-year career as a journalist and teaches Journalism Methods for graduates.

Email:

s-garnett@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-491-5661  

Amos  Gelb,

Associate Professor

Gelb is Associate Professor and Director of Videography/Broadcast at the Medill Washington Program. Before moving into teaching, Gelb was an award-winning television producer.

Email: 
amos.gelb@northwestern.edu
Phone: 202-661-0104

Loren  Ghiglione,

Professor

Ghiglione, a veteran of four decades in journalism and journalism education, teaches global journalism and journalism history.

Email: 

ghiglion@northwestern.edu  

Phone:  847-491-4837  

Jeremy  Gilbert,

Assistant Professor

Gilbert is an assistant professor at Medill teaching interactive storytelling, Web and print design tools and techniques.

Email: jgilbert@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-0874

Rich  Gordon,

Director of Digital Innovation; Professor

Rich Gordon is associate professor and director of digital innovation at the Medill School of Journalism, where he launched the school’s graduate program in new media journalism. 

Email:richgor@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-467-5968  

Ava  Thompson  Greenwell,

Associate Professor

Greenwell has been teaching broadcast writing, reporting and producing classes at Medill for undergraduate and graduate students since 1993.

E-mail: a-greenwell@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 847-467-2579

Kristian  Hammond,

Professor

Kristian Hammond is director of the Medill/McCormick Center for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism.

Email: hammond@eecs.

northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-467-1012

Bill  Handy,

Assistant Professor

Handy is coordinator of Medill’s Global Residency Program and a lecturer with more than 30 years of experience as an editor and publishing executive.

Email: w-handy@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 847-491-7372

Desiree  Hanford,

Journalism Residency Coordinator, Lecturer

For more than 10 years, Hanford was an equities reporter for Dow Jones & Co., where she covered publicly-traded companies, mutual funds and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 

Email: d-hanford@northwestern.edu  

Phone:   847-467-7930 

Mei-Ling  Hopgood,

Associate Professor

Mei-Ling Hopgood is a freelance journalist and writer who has written for various publications, ranging from the National Geographic Traveler and Marie Claire to the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe.

Email: mhopgood@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-2185

Brent  Huffman,

Assistant Professor

Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel, to Sundance Film Festival winners, to films made for FRONTLINE/World on PBS.

Email  b-huffman@northwestern.edu  

847-491-7580

Anne  Johnsos,

Lecturer

Johnsos started teaching at Medill in 2001, after reporting, anchoring and writing for television stations and production companies. 

Email:

a-johnsos@northwestern.edu

Phone: 773-960-9647

Louise  Kiernan,

Associate Professor

Louise Kiernan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, is an associate professor at Medill.

Email: l-kiernan@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 847-467-2163

Alec  Klein,

Professor

Klein, who joined Medill in fall 2008, is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and the director of the Medill Innocence Project.

Email:

alec-klein@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-467-4476  

Alex  Kotlowitz,

Senior Lecturer

Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here.

Email:

a-kotlowitz@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  708-445-8805  

Craig  LaMay,

Associate Professor

LaMay is an associate professor and faculty associate at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, as well as the former editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and editor of Media Studies Journal.

Email:

clamay@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-8727 

John  Lavine,

Dean of Medill, Professor and Founder, Media Management Center

Lavine is the dean of Medill and a professor of media management and strategy at Medill and the Kellogg School of Management.

Email:

j-lavine@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-2045 

Candy  Lee,

Professor

Lee spent many years in publishing, media, industry and education in global enterprises.

Email: candy.lee@northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-491-2065

Donna  Leff,

Professor

Leff is a professor of journalism at Medill and a faculty affiliate of the University's Institute for Policy Research.

Email:

d-leff@northwestern.edu

Phone:  312-503-0768 

Darnell  Little,

Associate Professor

Little specialized in computer-assisted reporting at the Chicago Tribune after earning a master's in engineering and another in journalism, both from Northwestern. 
Email: darnell-little@northwestern.edu

Matt  Mansfield,

Associate Professor and Co-Director of Medill News Service, Washington

Mansfield is co-director of Medilll's Washington program. He is a visual journalist whose professional experience includes working as deputy managing editor for the San Jose Mercury News.

Email: matt@northwestern.edu
Phone:  202-661-0103  

Jon  Marshall,

Assistant Professor

Jon Marshall has been a columnist for Quill magazine and a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, CBS News’ “Public Eye,” Chicago Tribune, Family Circle, Parenting, Parents, Home & Away, Illinois Issues, Reform Judaism and many other publications.

Email: j-marshall@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-467-2450  

Joe  Mathewson,

Assistant Professor

Mathewson was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York, Washington and Chicago, and for WBBM-TV in Chicago.

Email:

m-joseph@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  312-503-0770  

Timothy  McNulty,

Lecturer

Timothy J. McNulty is co-director of Medill's National Security Initiative whose career in national and foreign news coverage includes roles as both a war correspondent and White House correspondent.

Email:

timothy-mcnulty 

@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-467-5226   

Rachel  Davis  Mersey,

Assistant Professor

Mersey joined the Medill faculty in 2008 as an assistant professor of journalism with a specialization in audience understanding.

Email:

rdmersey@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-2196 

Josh  Meyer,

Lecturer, Director of Education and Outreach, National Security Journalism Initiative

Meyer joins Medill from the Los Angeles Times, where he spent 20 years as an investigative reporter and staff writer.

Email: josh@northwestern.edu

Phone: 202-661-0106

David  Nelson,

Associate Professor

Nelson teaches graduate courses in media management and ethics, media marketing and news at Medill as well as undergraduate reporting classes and an adult writing class. Northwestern University inducted Nelson to its “Teachers Honor Roll” in 2002 and named him “Professor of the Year” in 2007.

Email: d-nelson@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-491-2087  

Mary  Nesbitt,

Associate Dean

Nesbitt is Associate Dean for Curriculum and Professional Excellence at the Medill School and Managing Director of the Readership Institute at the Media Managaement Center, both at Northwestern University.

Email:

m-nesbitt@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-4285 

Marcel  Pacatte,

Managing Editor, Medill Chicago and Assistant Professor

Pacatte teaches reporting, writing and editing to undergraduate and graduate students at Medill, where he joined the faculty as an adjunct in 1997 and has taught full- and part-time on and off since then.

Email:

m-pacatte@northwestern.edu

Phone:  312-503-3802 

Ceci  Rodgers,

Lecturer

Rodgers is an award-winning journalist and has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades.

Email: 

c-rodgers@northwestern.edu 

Richard J.  Roth,

Senior Associate Dean for Journalism, Northwestern University in Qatar, Associate Professor

Roth is the senior associate dean at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Email:
profroth@northwestern.edu  
Phone: 847-467-6759

Ellen  Shearer,

Director and Bureau Chief, Medill Washington and William F. Thomas Professor

Shearer is the William F. Thomas Professor at Medill, director of the school’s Washington Program and co-director of the school’s National Security Journalism initiative.
Email:shearer@northwestern.edu
Phone:  202-661-0102 

Peter  Slevin,

Associate Professor

Slevin is an associate professor and a veteran national and international journalist currently on leave from TheWashington Post.

Email: slevin@northwestern.edu  

Phone: 847-467-7062

David  Standish,

Assistant Professor

Standish has been the editorial adviser for 20 Magazine Publishing Project prototypes as well as a teacher of magazine writing, a freelance journalist and an author.

Email:

d-standish@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-2085 

Larry  Stuelpnagel,

Assistant Professor, Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer

Stuelpnagel is an Emmy award winning reporter who teaches broadcast and multimedia reporting. He is the faculty advisor to the award-winning, student produced Northwestern News Network.

Email:

lls768@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-3468 

John  Sullivan,

Senior Lecturer, Assistant Director of Medill Watchdog/Accountability Initiative

John Sullivan joined Medill after working for nearly a decade at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Email: john-sullivan@northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-467-4086

Rick  Tulsky,

Senior Lecturer, Director of Medill Watchdog/Accountability Initiative

Rick Tulsky is a Pulitzer Prize winner who worked at the San Jose Mercury News prior to arriving at Medill.

Email: f-tulsky@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 847-467-4087

Cecilia  Vaisman,

Associate Professor

Cecilia Vaisman is a radio journalist, multimedia producer and teacher based in Chicago.

Email: c-vaisman@northwestern.edu

Michele  Weldon,

Assistant Professor

Weldon is an assistant professor in Medill's undergraduate and graduate programs and is the author of several books, including “Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page.”

Email:

m-weldon@northwestern.edu 

Phone:  847-491-2064  

Charles  Whitaker,

Helen Gurley Brown Research Chair

Whitaker is the Helen Gurley Brown Research Chair in Magazine Journalism and teaches courses in magazine writing and editing and is one of the rotating directors of Medill’s acclaimed Magazine Publishing Project.

Email: c-whitaker@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-491-3014  

Zach  Wise,

Associate Professor

Zach Wise, previously an award-winning multimedia producer for The New York Times, began teaching interactive journalism at Medill in June 2011.

Email:

wise@northwestern.edu

Emily  Withrow,

Assistant Professor

Emily Withrow is an assistant professor at Medill, teaching online publishing, multimedia storytelling, and interactive narrative to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Email:  e-withrow@northwestern.edu 
Phone: 847-467-1890

Patti  Wolter,

Assistant Professor

Wolter joined the Medill faculty in the spring of 2002 after a successful magazine career in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, where she gained editorial experience that includes 12 years of senior staff jobs at a range of non-profit and for-profit publications.

Email: p-wolter@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-491-5269  

Owen  Youngman,

Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy

Youngman was appointed to the Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Medill in January 2009, after a 37-year career at the Chicago Tribune focused on new product development, innovation and interactive media.

Email: o-youngman@northwestern.edu
Phone:  847-467-6759