History
For over a century, City College has been the home of a vigorous student press and incubator of prominent journalists. Some of the many include:
- Upton Sinclair, progressive, muckraking journalist and Pulitzer-Prize winning author
- Daniel Schorr, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist
- A.M. Rosenthal, New York Times executive editor
- Edward Kosner, editor of New York, Esquire and Newsweek magazines
- Stephen B. Shepard, former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine, founding dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York
- Stanley Nelson, MacArthur “genius” Fellow and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker (pictured, below)
- Barbara Nevins Taylor, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist
- David Diaz, Emmy Award-winning TV anchor and correspondent
- Sportswriters Vic Ziegel, Maury Allen and Gerald Eskanazi