Faculty Profiles

Journalism Program Director Barbara Nevins Taylor thinks this is the best job that she has ever had. She is the winner of 22 Emmy Awards and more than 50 journalism awards and honors. Before becoming a full-time professor, she was a long-time, investigative, consumer and political reporter in New York City. she worked for WNYW-TV,  UPN9, CNBC, WCBS-2 NY, WAGA-TV in Atlanta, WKYTV, in Lexington, Kentucky and WHNT-TV in Huntsville Alabama. She has written for many magazines, The New York Times and The Atlanta Constitution. Here at City College her students consistently win journalism honors and awards. She is the founder of ConsumerMojo.com where she continues to practice journalism and is an audiobook narrator.  She is a proud 1970 graduate of The City College of New York. 

Linda Villarosa is a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her landmark 2022 book Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America. Linda is a journalist and educator and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. She also contributed to the 1619 Project. She is journalist in residence at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY and teaches Introduction to Journalism here at City College.  She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in journalism, spent a year at the Harvard School of Public Health on a Health Communications Fellowship. She was also a health editor at The New York Times  and served as the executive editor of Essence Magazine.

Macollvie J. Neel is an award-winning journalist who specializes in narratives about the Haitian American experience and immigrant communities. Her recent work with the Haitian Times as special projects editor was recognized with the 2025 Maria Ressa Prize for Courage in Journalism. She has contributed to Business Insider and reported the radio documentary "Immigrants in a Global City," which aired on NPR. She was honored with 2024 award for Best Feature Writing from the New York Association of Black Journalists. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Pulitzer Center, McGraw Center for Business Journalism and Solutions Journalism. She holds an M.B.A. from Florida International University and a B.A. in Business Journalism from Baruch College.

Camille Petersen is an audio journalist working at ABC News. She has covered healthcare and other areas for NPR, Marketplace and WHYY. During the pandemic she reported about restaurants and small businesses in New York City. Camille is a graduate of Columbia University and teaches Podcasting and Audio Journalism at City College. 

Katie Herchenroeder is a journalist focusing on gender inequality, violence against women and politics. You can find her reporting in Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Vice and other publications. Katie holds an M.A. in international reporting from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in international studies and sociology with a minor in journalism from the City College of New York (CCNY). She teaches Media Literacy and Introduction to Journalism. She sits on the board of the CCNY Communications Alumni. Born in Indiana, raised in Arizona, Katie now lives in Brooklyn.

Isvett Verde, an opinion editor at The New York Times, pioneered the Latinx Media Studies class at City College. Her work as an editor and writer at the NYT focuses on the Latino experience in the United States. She has written about DACA, the effects of climate change on Indigenous people, and Latinos and politics. She earned a B.A. in French from Florida International University and an M.A. in Spanish Journalism from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. 

Roger Rubin, an award-winning sports writer, teaches sports reporting. He has covered sports for more than three decades and has focused on Major League Baseball. He became a Baseball Hall of Fame voter in 2011. He also has also reported about NCAA men's basketball and interscholastic athletics and all of the major professional sports leagues. He worked at Sports Illustrated and New York Newsday and then spent 20 years at the Daily News before returning to Newsday where he now works. He co-authored The Great New York Sports Debate: Two New York Sportswriters Go Head-to-Head on New York's 50 Most Heated Questions. Rubin was honored with the Mike Cohen Good Award from the Met Basketball Writers Association in 2017.

Morgan Chittum is an award-winning financial journalist with experience covering the stock market, the U.S. economy and America's largest banks. She is an investigative reporter at CNBC. She has written for Business Insider and began her career at the New York Daily News covering crime. Her reporting on gun violence contributed to a New York Press Club award won by the newsroom. Although raised in the South, Morgan considers herself a New Yorker and is proud to live in the greatest city in the world. She is a member of the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.