Tom Goldstein, a Yale alumnus and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, Nov. 5 as the first Poynter Fellow in Journalism for 1997-98.
Dean Goldstein's talk, "Don't Kill the Messenger: Journalism's Bright Future," will be held at 4 p.m. at Saint Anthony Hall, 483 College St. (corner of College and Wall streets). The talk is free and open to the public.
Dean Goldstein has practiced, taught and written extensively about journalism since his graduation from Yale College in 1967. He also served several years as press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward Koch and was a consultant on publicity issues relating to the Oklahoma City bombing for the U.S. Attorney General's Office.
He worked at the Buffalo News, Newsday and Associated Press before joining the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in 1972. He subsequently served as a legal reporter and business columnist for the New York Times, as a media writer for New York Newsday and as a consultant to ABC's "Nightline."
His books include "The News at Any Cost," "A Two-Faced Press" and "Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Press Criticism." Dean Goldstein's freelance articles and commentary have appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.
An attorney who received both a master's degree in journalism and a legal degree from Columbia, Mr. Goldstein was dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley 1988-96 before moving to Columbia. He was a professor at Berkeley before becoming dean and has taught at Harvard, where he was a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and other schools.
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale was established by Nelson Poynter '27 M.A. It brings to campus journalists who have made significant contributions to their field. Bob Woodward, David Gergen and Tim Russert were among the Poynter Fellows at Yale in recent years.