Stephen B. Shepard (born c. 1939^[1]) is an American business journalist and academic who served as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine and was the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Born and raised in New York City, Shepard attended the Bronx High School of Science. He received his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York and was awarded a master's degree from Columbia University.^[2] He married fellow Newsweek senior editor on September 16, 1979, at a ceremony officiated by Rabbi Balfour Brickner.^[2]

Shepard was a senior editor at Newsweek and an editor of the Saturday Review. Shepard established and directed the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economic and Business Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1971 to 1976 and served as an adjunct professor of the school's faculty.^[3] The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship is a one-year program that allows business journalists to take a series of classes through the School of Journalism in business, law and international affairs.^[4] From 1984 to 2005, Shepard was the editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.^[3]

City University of New York trustees selected Shepard to serve as the inaugural dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in November 2004. The school was to start with an enrollment of 50 students in August 2006 and expand to a total of 200 students. Shepard told employees that at BusinessWeek that he was disappointed to leave the magazine, but had been drawn to the academic post by the way it combined journalism, public education and New York City, three things that he cared a great deal for.^[1] Stephen J. Adler of The Wall Street Journal was named to succeed Shepard as editor in chief at BusinessWeek.^[5]

Shepard received the Gerald Loeb Award in 1999. He was president of the American Society of Magazine Editors from 1992 to 1994 and was selected in 1999 for inclusion in its hall of fame.^[3] The Magazine Publishers of America chose Shepard as one of two recipients of the 2000 Henry Johnson Fisher Award.^[6]

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Norman Pearlstine (born October 4, 1942, in Philadelphia) joined Bloomberg L.P. in June 2008 as chief content officer, a newly-created position.^[1] In this role Pearlstine is charged with seeking growth opportunities for Bloomberg’s television, radio, magazine, and online products and to make the most of the company’s news operations. He assumed the additional positions of Chairman, Bloomberg Businessweek, following the acquisition of the magazine in December 2009 and Co-Chairman, Bloomberg Government, following the launch of the subscription site in 2011.^[2]

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Pearlstine was a Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Group's telecommunications and media group in New York.^[3] Before joining the private equity firm, Pearlstine had spent nearly four decades working as a reporter and editor. He was editor in chief of Time Inc., where he served between January 1, 1995,^[4] and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc.'s 154 publications, including Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, In Style, Money, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time.^[4] Through 2006, he served as a senior advisor to Time Warner.

He is married to Jane Boon, an industrial engineer.^[5] Previously, he was married to the writer Nancy Friday from 1988 to 2005.

He graduated from The Hill School and then received an AB in History from Haverford College. He later obtained a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and later did post-graduate work at the law school of Southern Methodist University. Before joining Time Inc., he worked for the Wall Street Journal from 1968–1992, except for a two year period, 1978–1980, when he was an executive editor for Forbes magazine.. At the Journal, he served as a staff reporter in Dallas, Detroit and Los Angeles (1968–1973); Tokyo bureau chief (1973–1976); managing editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal (1976–1978); national editor (1980–1981); editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal/Europe (1982–1983); managing editor (1983–1991); and executive editor (1991–1992). After leaving the Wall Street Journal he launched SmartMoney, and was later the general partner of Friday Holdings L.P., a multimedia investment company, prior to succeeding Jason McManus as Editor-in-Chief at Time in 1995.

In January 2005, the American Society of Magazine Editors named Pearlstine the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted him into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.^[6] He was honored with the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in 2000.^[7] He received the National Press Foundation’s Editor of the Year Award in 1989.

Pearlstine serves on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation,^[8] the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Watson Institute for International Relations. He serves on the advisory board of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, and he is co-chair of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School of Communications. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations^[9]. From 2006 to 2011, Pearlstine served as President and CEO of the American Academy Berlin.^[10]

Pearlstine was briefly part of the controversy surrounding Matthew Cooper when he acted on a U.S. court subpoena to hand Cooper's notes to the independent prosecutor investigating the outing of Valerie Plame as a covert agent of the CIA.^[11] From this experience, Pearlstine wrote a book entitled Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was published in hardcover in June 2007,^[12][13] and in soft cover in June 2008.

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External links[link]

• http://www.normanpearlstine.com/

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Tom Rosenstiel is an author, journalist, press critic and founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.^[1] A journalist for more than 30 years, he worked as a media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine and as co-founder and vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Among his books, he is the co-author of the popular The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect." He appears often on radio, television and in print, and has written widely on politics and media.

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A graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia School of Journalism, Rosenstiel began his career as a reporter for muckraking political columnist Jack Anderson. He worked at The Peninsula Times Tribune, his hometown paper in Palo Alto, CA, as a business reporter and Business Editor from 1980 to 1983. He then spent 12 years at the Los Angeles Times, most of those as a media critic and Washington correspondent. He left the Times in 1995 to join Newsweek Magazine, where he served as chief congressional correspondent and covered the Gingrich revolution.

In 1997, he founded the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an institute that studies the press performance. PEJ is non partisan, non ideological, and non political. From 1997 to 2006, PEJ was affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Columbia University. In 2006 PEJ separated from Columbia and became part of Pew Research Center, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a private organization. PEJ, among other studies, produces the annual State of the News Media Report that takes stock of the news industry, the weekly News Coverage Index that monitors the coverage of the mainstream media and the weekly New Media Index that monitors social media and blogs.

Rosenstiel also co-founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an organization of journalists around the world working in different media concerned about the future of public interest journalism. Rosenstiel directed CCJ's daily activities until 2006. During those years, Rosenstiel was co-author of CCJ's "Traveling Curriculum," a mid-career education program that trained more than 6,000 U.S. journalists. CCJ is now affiliated with the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where Rosenstiel is an adjunct professor of Journalism Studies.

In 2001, Rosenstiel co-authored with Bill Kovach the book, "The Elements of Journalism," which identifies, explains and traces intellectual origins of the core principles of American journalism and their role in civil society.^[2] Updated in 2007, "Elements" has been called "one of give essential books on journalism (Roger Mudd, The Wall Street Journal), a "modern classic" (William Safire, The New York Times) and "the most important book on the relationship of journalism and democracy published in the last 50 years" (Roy Clark, the Poynter Institute). Elements has been translated into more than two dozen languages and is the winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for research in journalism and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State.

His most recent book, also with Kovach, is "Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload," which offers a roadmap for how consumers can determine whether the news they encounter is reliable and an outline for how journalism must change to meet the changing needs of the 21st century citizen.

Books on journalism[link]

• Rosenstiel, Tom (1993). Strange Bedfellows: How TV and the Presidential Candidates Changes American Politics, 1992 (Hyperion Press)
• Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach (1999). Warp Speed: America in The Age of Mixed Media (Century Foundation).
• Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach (2001; 2nd edition 2007). Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown Publishing).
• Rosenstiel, Tom and Amy S. Mitchell, editors (2003). Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision Making. (Columbia University Press).
• Rosenstiel, Tom and Marion Just, Todd Belt, Atiba Pertilla, Walter Dean and Dante Chinni, (2007) We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local TV and Win Ratings, Too (Cambridge University Press)
• Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach (2011) Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload (Bloomsbury).

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External links[link]

• Project for Excellence in Journalism
• Booknotes interview with Rosenstiel on Strange Bedfellows, August 8, 1993.

Adam L. Penenberg (born July 27, 1962) is a U.S. investigative journalist best known for his role in the affair surrounding the The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass in 1998.

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Stephen Glass scandal[link]

In the summer of 1998, Penenberg, then a reporter with Forbes magazine's online arm, Forbes Digital Tool, came upon a story in TNR about a Silicon Valley firm who was hacked by a teenager, then hired the hacker as a security consultant. Amazed that TNR had somehow managed to scoop Forbes, Penenberg tried to verify it. Penenberg could not find any evidence that the company, Jukt Micronics, even existed. He also could not verify any of the events that Glass claimed resulted from the hacker's hiring, such as a radio spot from concerned Nevada state officials or several joint state efforts to combat hacking.^[1] After an internal TNR investigation determined Glass had made up the story out of whole cloth, TNR fired him.

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As of 2005 Penenberg is an assistant professor of journalism at New York University. He is also a freelance writer for Fast Company, the New York Times, Forbes, Wired News, and Playboy. His non-fiction book Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs which deals with the biggest product liability case in history, the Ford and Firestone controversy, was published in 2003 and is currently being made into a movie.

In 2009, Penenberg authored the book Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. Viral Loop explains how companies such as Netscape, eBay, PayPal, Skype, Hotmail, Facebook, and Twitter implemented viral loops to grow exponentially and achieve billion-dollar valuations in only a short amount of time. The book is divided into three sections including viral businesses, marketing, and networks.^[2]

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Penenberg was portrayed by Steve Zahn in the movie Shattered Glass.

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External links[link]

• Adam Penenberg's Official Website
• Adam Penenberg's famous Forbes' online article, Lies, damn lies and fiction which reveals Stephen Glass' fabrication
• Penenberg's faculty page

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