Professors who teach in Reporting New York come from a variety of backgrounds, some from the academic community, others from newspapers, wire services or magazines. We also have a large number of adjunct professors who come to us from a number of New York newsrooms and thus provide students practical and up-to-date information and experience.
While students also have the opportunity to study with other full-time faculty and teaching professionals in the Department, the core professors of Reporting New York are:
Yvonne Latty is the Director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation programs at the Institute. She is the author of In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive (Polipoint Press 2006) and the critically acclaimed We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins/Amistad 2004).
She worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years where she was an award winning reporter specializing in urban issues. Latty was featured in two History Channel's Documentaries, Honor Deferred and the Emmy award winner A Distant Shore: African Americans at D-Day. Born and raised in New York City, she earned a BFA in Film/Television and later an MA in Journalism from New York University.
Her nonfiction short stories have been published in It's A Girl: Women Writers On Raising Daughters, (Seal 2006) The African American History Bibliography (Oxford Press 2008) and Callaloo, the premier African-American literary magazine.
In Conflict was turned into a theater piece that premiered at Temple University in October 2007, received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was awarded The Fringe First Award. In Conflict played Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater. In Conflict was also at the heart of a Wilton, Conn. high school play that after being banned by the school principal, became an international story and was then performed in several Off- Broadway theaters, including The Public Theater, last spring.
Both plays were published by Playscripts in June 2008.
Latty is a Leeway Foundation Fellow and has lectured nationally.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, BET.com, The Washington Post and numerous other media outlets. She has been featured in over 100 media outlets including, Newsweek, CNN, The New York Times, CNN International, Fox News, NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press.
Professor Mihai, the broadcast coordinator of the department, is a freelance videographer, independent producer and multi-media designer. He produced and directed several documentaries, "E Pluribus Unum" (1994), a film that investigates the spiritual milieu of first generation immigrants from Romania, as they become integrated into the various folds of the American society, "Someone Has Killed The Sphinx" (1995), a film offers an analysis of Romanian social realities following the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, as seen through the staging of"Oedipus", at the Romanian National Opera House, "Crossroads" (1998), a film that takes a look at Columbia University's Graduate Acting Program, created and steered by renowned Romanian-American director Andrei Serban, "E Biagoresqo Drom / The Endless Journey", a documentary about the Rroma/Gypsy communities of Romania. Professor Mihai works as freelance cameraman for various news org. such Bloomberg televison news, BBC America, Austrian TV, CNN. Since 1996, he has taught undergraduates and graduates "Electronic News Gathering".
William Serrin is a former labor and workplace correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town, a book on the collapse of the U.S. steel industry and the effects on mill towns, and The Company and the Union: The Civilized Relationship of the General Motors Corporation and The United Automobile Workers. Serrin reported for The Detroit Free Press and Newsweek and has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review and The Village Voice. He was a member the Detroit Free Press team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1967 Detroit riots. In addition, Serrin was a recipient of the George Polk Award for reporting on the Kent State killings in 1970, the Sidney Hillman Award, and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.
Marilyn W. Thompson is the National Government and Politics editor of The Washington Post, where she supervises coverage of the White House, national politics and federal agencies. She also has worked in the Washington bureaus of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. For two years, Marilyn was the executive editor and vice president of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, KY.
Before her stint in Lexington, Marilyn spent 14 years as an editor and reporter at The Post. She served as Assistant Managing Editor for Investigations for several years and also worked as Metro Projects Editor and National Domestic Policy Editor. As a reporter, she broke the story in 2003 of segregationist Sen. Strom ThurmondÍs illegitimate mixed race daughter, Essie Mae Williams.
Marilyn began her career in Columbia, S.C., working for The Columbia Record. She also worked at the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News, where she broke a government corruption scandal called Wedtech that brought more than two dozen indictments from the South Bronx to Washington, D.C.
She is the author of Feeding the Beast: How Wedtech became the Most Corrupt Little Company in America (Scribner) and The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed (Harper Collins). She co-authored OlÍ Strom (Longstreet Press) and the reissued and revised Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond (Public Affairs) Marilyn has served on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She was a Ferris Professor in the Humanities Department at Princeton University.
She has two sons, Cory and Andrew, who are students at NYU.
Mary W. Quigley is a journalist who writes about women and work issues. Her most recent book is Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide (St. Martin's Press, 2004). She is also the co-author of And What Do You Do? When Women Chose to Stay Home. Wildcat Canyon press, 2000). She started teaching as an adjunct in 1979 after she received her master's in journalism from NYU. She teaches research, reporting and writing courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Frankie Edozien is the director of the Ghana 'Reporting Africa' program. He is a journalist who honed his skills writing about government, health and cultural issues for a variety of publications. His work has appeared in The Times (UK), Vibe magazine, Out Traveler, Blackaids.org, The Advocate, and more. Edozien was an award-winning New York Post reporter for 15 years, and its City Hall Reporter from 1999-2008 where he was the lead writer on legislative affairs. He covered crime, courts, labor issues and human services public health and politics, reporting from around the country and abroad for the paper. In 2001, he co-founded the AFRican Magazine and continues to serve as the editor-in-chief. He has traveled around the world reporting on the impact of HIV/AIDS particularly among Africans and is a 2008 Kaiser Foundation fellow for Global Health Reporting. Edozien holds a BA from NYU's journalism school and a selection of his work is available on www.edozien.net.
