Tom Goldstein, professor of journalism and former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California, Berkeley, has been named dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, effective July 1, 1997, Columbia President George Rupp announced today.
Goldstein, a graduate of the school, began his journalism career at his hometown newspaper, The Buffalo Evening News. During the ensuing 20 years, he worked at The New York Times as a legal reporter and business columnist, The Wall Street Journal as a real estate reporter, New York Newsday as a media writer, and Associated Press, as a reporter in the New York bureau. From 1980-1982, he served as press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch. He is the author of three books and the editor of a fourth.
He will become the sixth dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, succeeding Joan Konner, who will continue at the school as a professor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review.
In announcing the appointment, President Rupp said, "Tom Goldstein's distinguished career as a journalist, professor of journalism and dean has taken him to some of the nation's most prestigious universities and most important news organizations. He is superbly qualified to build on the remarkable achievements of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and to lead the school into the 21st century as the premier academic institution of its kind."
"In my line of work, this is similar to being asked to manage the Yankees," said Goldstein. "I count myself among the very lucky. I leave one exciting and important school of journalism for another. Joan Konner has done a splendid job, and it is an honor to replace her. I leave Berkeley with the happy knowledge that my successor, Orville Schell, is off to a fast start."
A 1967 graduate of Yale College, Goldstein, 51, earned a master of journalism (1969) and a law degree (1971) from Columbia. In addition to writing for daily newspapers including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, he served as editor-in-chief of Juris Doctor Magazine and most recently, as a consultant on prejudicial publicity to the United States government in the Oklahoma City bombing case. His articles, opinion pieces and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia Law Review, Washington Journalism Review, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Francisco Chronicle.
He is the author of three books, The News at Any Cost (Simon & Schuster, 1985), A Two-Faced Press (Twentieth Century Fund, 1986), and The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well (McGraw Hill, 1989), which he co-authored with Jethro K. Lieberman, and the editor of a fourth, Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Press Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1989).
Goldstein began his academic career as an adjunct professor at New York University (1975-79) and later taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1983-84) as the Gannett Distinguished Visiting Professor. He spent the spring of 1994 as Lombard Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Goldstein joined the Berkeley faculty as an acting professor in 1984, became a full professor in 1987 and served as dean from August, 1988 to July, 1996, during which time he oversaw the revision the curriculum, the hiring of two-thirds of the 12-member full-time faculty, and the renovation of the landmark building that houses the school. As dean, he carried nearly a full teaching load and plans to continue teaching at Columbia.
His wife, Leslie, and he are parents of a son, Maxwell, born this past September.
In recent years, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has added a number of distinguished scholars and journalists to its faculty, including James W. Carey, former journalism dean of the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Dinges, former managing news editor and editorial director of National Public Radio; Samuel G. Freedman, author and former reporter for The New York Times; Sig Gissler, former editor of the Milwaukee Journal; Ari Goldman, former religion reporter for The New York Times; LynNell Hancock, former education editor of Newsweek; Derwin Johnson and Rhoda Lipton, former producers for ABC News; Josh Mills, former financial news editor of The New York Times; Associate Dean Sandy Padwe, former senior editor of Sports Illustrated; John Pavlik, executive director of the newly created Center for New Media at the school and former director of the School of Communications at San Diego State University; E.R. Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Daily News; Seymour Topping, former managing editor of The New York Times, and Carey Winfrey, former editor of American Health and now director of the Delacorte magazine center at the school.
Terry Anderson, the former Associated Press Middle East bureau chief who was held hostage in Lebanon for nearly seven years, is an adjunct faculty member, and Michael Janeway will soon leave the deanship of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University to direct the National Arts Reporting Program at Columbia.
The Columbia School of Journalism was founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer and enrolls 220 full-time and 64 part-time students in an intensive program leading to the master of science in journalism degree. The school administers the Pulitzer Prizes, duPont-Columbia Awards in broadcast journalism and the National Magazine Awards and publishes the Columbia Journalism Review, which recently named editor, author and broadcast commentator Marshall Loeb its editor.
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