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Howard Schneider
Howard Schneider is the founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, spearheading the team that developed the proposal for the new School of Journalism. For more than 35 years. Schneider was a reporter and editor at Newsday. For nearly 18 of those years, he was managing editor and then editor.

Under his tenure, the paper won eight Pulitzer Prizes in categories including investigative reporting deadline reporting, arts criticism, specialized beat reporting and foreign affairs reporting. Under his leadership, Newsday was among the first newspapers in the country to create news Web sites; he also led efforts to introduce TV and radio into what had been an all-print newsroom.

Schneider began his teaching career at Stony Brook as an adjunct professor of journalism from 1980-1982. Previously, he had been an adjunct professor of journalism at Queens College in 1979. In 2003 Schneider was the recipient of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Alumnus Award (M.S.'67). He earned his B.A at Syracuse University in psychology and journalism ('66). He has been a member of the Pulitzer Prize judging panel three times. He also serves on the Science Journalism Advisory Board of the Woods Hole Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

Richard Hornik
Richard Hornik retired from his position as executive editor of ASIAWEEK magazine in Hong Kong in 2001, ending more than two decades of worldwide service with the publications of Time Inc. He is currently Director of Southeast Asia Programs for the Independent Journalism Foundation, focusing on training journalists in Vietnam and Cambodia.   He is also interim director of the Center for News Literacy.

During his career at TIME, he was business editor of its European edition (1998-2000) in London and deputy chief of correspondents and news service director of TIME in New York between 1994-97. Prior to that, Hornik served as TIME’s bureau chief in Warsaw, Boston, Beijing and Hong Kong, and its national economics correspondent in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club. Hornik co-authored Massacre in Beijing and has written for Foreign Affairs. He has a master's degree in Russian Studies from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Brown University.

James M. Klurfeld
James M. Klurfeld is a visiting professor of journalism.  He retired Nov. 1, 2007, as vice president and editor of the editorial pages of Newsday after nearly 40 years at the paper. Klurfeld started at Newsday as a local reporter in 1968, headed the paper’s Albany and Washington bureaus, and was appointed to his current position in December 1987 with responsibility for the Editorial and Viewpoints pages.

For the past 12 years, Klurfeld has been seen on "The Cutting Edge," a weekly half-hour television program on NY55. The show focuses on Newsday's Sunday editorials, as well as other national, international and local issues. Klurfeld was a member of the Newsday investigative team that won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, as well as the New York State Publisher's Association and Deadline Club awards in the same category. The awards were given for a three-year effort that disclosed official and political party corruption in three townships on Long Island. He also won the Sigma Delta Chi National Reporting Award with other members of the Washington Bureau in 1982 and he was the recipient of the 1988 American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for editorials on the Iran-Contra hearings. He has traveled widely overseas and currently writes a weekly column for Newsday that often focuses on foreign affairs and national security issues. He plans to continue writing his column after he retires from the paper.

Dean Miller
Dean Miller was named Director of the Center for News Literacy on August 25, 2009. The center, established in September 2007 and housed at Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism, is the nation’s first Center for News Literacy designed to educate current and future news consumers on how to judge the credibility and reliability of news.

For more than 25 years, Miller was a reporter and editor at newspapers in the Northern Rockies. For 14 of those years he was managing editor and then executive editor of the Post Register, the employee-owned daily in Idaho Falls, Idaho. During his tenure, the Post Register won numerous national journalism awards and grew readership against the national freefall in newspaper circulation.

Under Miller’s stewardship, the Post Register won the E.W. Scripps Distinguished Service to the First Amendment award in 2006 for its investigation of the Boy Scouts organization’s failure to drum out pedophile staffers. The Scout investigation was the subject of “In a Small Town,” a WNET documentary. For his first-person account of the organized backlash against the newspaper, Miller won the national Mirror Award for media writing.

Selected for a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard in 2007, Miller advised student journalists while studying management and comparative religion. During his Nieman year, Miller also filmed and edited a documentary film about the Idaho songwriter whose hit tune Paul McCartney played to get into John Lennon’s Quarrymen.

Miller has taught at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and in Poynter’s traveling National Writers Workshops since 1999 and has been an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute since 2006. A First Amendment advocate, Miller taught workshops across Idaho on issues related to public records and open government. He also taught marketing, redesign and writing to corporate executives and staff.

Miller was a reporter on the Spokesman-Review team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the FBI’s shooting of four citizens at Ruby Ridge. He also wrote in a freelance capacity for the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, High Country News and US News & World Report.

Miller earned his B.A. in English at Cornell where he was an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun. He is a member of the American Press Institute board of newsroom advisors and was co-founder of Idahoans for Openness in Government (IDOG). He lives in Stony Brook with his wife and two children.

Adjunct Faculty:

News Fellows:

Fred Bruning Zachary Dowdy Cathrine Duffy Judith Fischer George Giokas John Giuffo Charles Haddad Keith Herbert Julia Mead Robert Preston Ronald Roel John Russell Kenneth Ryan Paul Schreiber Joseph Shaw Stephen Shultz Andrew Smith Lawrence Streigel Sandra Trapani William Zimmerman

Jonathan Anzalone – History Ph.D student Leone Brown – Evolution and Ecology Ph.D student Scott Kravet – Philosophy Ph.D student Sarah Marchesano – History Ph.D student Gary Maynard – Sociology Ph.D student Joshua Meissner – Comparative Literature Ph.D student Lauren Neefe – English Ph.D student Seth Offenbach – History Ph.D student Krisztina Sajber – Philosophy Ph.D student Rachel Walsh – English Ph.D student