Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Geanne Rosenberg

Department Chair
Media law, ethics, legal, regulatory issues, legal profession, securities industry

Email:

Geanne.Rosenberg@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646) 312-3969
Location: VC 7-267

 

Geanne Rosenberg, a journalist and attorney and award-winning teacher, is an associate professor at Baruch College and founding chair of Baruch's Department of  Journalism and the Writing Professions. She also oversees and teaches the law and ethics in journalism course at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.  She has recently worked as a pro bono legal consultant on freedom of information matters at the Associated Press. She recently received a $1 million grant from the Harnisch Family Philanthropies for her journalism department and related programs and a $50,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation for work to support press freedom and high school journalism in New York City’s public schools.

Prof. Rosenberg authored and produced Knight Citizen News Network's Top Ten Rules for Limiting Legal Risk and the Citizen Journalist's Guide to Open Government. She co-authored the Poynter Institute's News  University course Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Online Publishers (available at www.newsu.org).  She has recently written for Nieman Journalism Lab.  

Prof. Rosenberg began her journalism career as a high school freelancer for a Walt Whitman-founded local community newspaper and later worked as a staff reporter for The New Haven Register, an editor covering the global lead and zinc industries for McGraw-Hill, a reporter covering investment banking for Investment Dealers' Digest, and a reporter covering retail and consumer products companies for Investor's  Business Daily. Following law school and a brief stint as a litigator, she continued writing for many newspapers and magazines including Columbia  Journalism Review, The New York Times, The National Law Journal, The Daily  Deal and Investor's Business Daily, primarily on law, journalism, business and the Internet.

She has a J.D. from Columbia University's School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism; and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College. She is admitted to practice in New York.  Prof. Rosenberg received a Whiting Fellowship for excellence in teaching. 

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