Philip Kay
Print & Broadcast Journalism Program Director 
Tele: 212-650-5499
E-mail: pkay@ccny.cuny.edu

Philip Kay’s research interests include newspaper coverage and popular narratives of urban schools and youth; the metropolitan, student, ethnic, and alternative press; and journalism education. He is a doctoral candidate at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where his dissertation project, Guttersnipes and Eliterates: City College in the Popular Imagination, is a study of “the poor man’s Harvard” as cultural icon and perennial site of social conflict. From 1990 to ‘97, he was editor of the monthly magazine New Youth Connections (circ. 80,000). He has published three book length collections of writing by New York City youth, including Things Get Hectic: Teens Write About the Violence That Surrounds Them (Simon & Schuster, 1998) and Starting With ‘I’: Personal Essays by Teenagers (Persea Books, 1997) and has conducted numerous workshops on writing and publishing with young people. His own writing has appeared in City Limits, New York Newsday, El Diario/LA PRENSA, the Village Voice, the Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. In 1994-95, he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York at Columbia University.