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