David Alm
David Alm is a magazine writer specializing in narrative features and profiles. His 2023 profile of Rachael Rapinoe for GQ was included in the Year’s Best Sports Writing anthology and his work has frequently been featured by Longreads, the premier curator of long-form journalism in the United States. Earlier in his career, David chronicled the rise of internet culture, and ghostwrote books on web design and digital filmmaking. Outside of Hunter, he works as an editor for a political risk and business intelligence agency. David studied art history and literature at St. Olaf College, and received an M.A. in the humanities from the University of Chicago. He began teaching at Hunter in 2006.
Khristopher Brooks
Khristopher Brooks has been a professor at Hunter College since 2020 and a professional journalist since 2006. He writes about the U.S. housing market for Homes.com with an eye toward New York City. A Detroit native, Brooks has been a reporter for CBS News, Newsday, the Omaha World-Herald, the Florida Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society for the Advancement of Business Editing and Writing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University and a master’s degree in literary reportage from New York University. He teaches Reporting and Writing I along with the introduction to business and economic reporting.
Coralie Carlson
Coralie Carlson is the social media coordinator at CUNY’s Graduate Center. She worked at NBC New York as a social media editor and weekend editor from 2013 to 2019; she also worked for The Associated Press as a reporter and editor in Minnesota, Miami and New York from 2001 to 2013. Carlson is originally from Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a degree in political science. She teaches News Literacy in a Digital Age and has also taught online journalism.
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a veteran entertainment-industry journalist. He has written for Wired, Newsweek, Parade, Video, Popular Science, and The New York Times. As a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly and EW.com from 1996 to 2008, he covered movies, home video, TV, animation, visual effects, and Oscar history, contributing over 900 pieces. With John Lasseter, Daly is co-author of the book “Toy Story: The Art and Making of the Animated Film” (1995). Daly is on the adjunct faculty of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Before teaching at CUNY, Daly taught critical writing and feature writing for Syracuse University’s Goldring Arts Journalism Program. In 2010, he helped the Goldring cohort launch a multimedia capstone course at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, tethered to the print and online editions of The Post and Courier. Daly holds a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. He teaches News Literacy in a Digital Age.
A. Adam Glenn
A. Adam Glenn has worked in newspaper, magazine and online newsrooms in New York and Washington, D.C. for more than four decades, including a seven-year stint at ABCNews.com, where he served as senior producer. Adam is a long-time digital journalist and media consultant, specializing in press freedom issues and environmental reporting, with a master’s degree in international environmental policy. He has been a journalism instructor since2002, including at Columbia University, New York University and CUNY. At Hunter since 2017, he has taught Reporting and Writing 1 and 2, Online Journalism, Mobile Journalism and Media Ethics, and developed courses in Data Journalism,and Urban Environment and Health Journalism. He lives in the Lower Hudson Valley.
R. Polly Leider
Polly Leider is a producer at CBS News, where she’s been covering national and international news for nearly 20 years. Before starting at CBS, she worked at broadcast outlets including CNBC and CNN. Polly also produces video profiles for the International Center for Journalists. She joined Hunter’s faculty in 2022 and has taught News Literacy in a Digital Age and Reporting and Writing 2. She received her master’s in journalism from New York University and her B.A. from Columbia. She grew up in California in the beautiful Bay Area but lives nowadays on the Upper West Side.
Monica Malpass
Monica M. Malpass is an award-winning TV news and business anchor. She anchored top-rated broadcasts at WPVI from 1988-2019, moderated the political TV program Inside Story, and has interviewed such luminaries as Barack Obama, H. W. Bush, Al Pacino, Jessica Alba, Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton and many more. She has also reported for New to the Street, Fintech TV and the Broadcast Retirement Network. Malpass earned her B.A. in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and her M.A. in political science from Villanova. She began teaching at Hunter College in 2023.
Jess Shane
Jess Shane is a radio producer, artist and educator from Toronto. She has worked on podcasts for TED, MoMA, NBC, CBC and BBC, and her documentary work has featured at film and audio festivals internationally, including True/False, Open City Documentary Festival, Lucia and the International Features Conference. Jess’ podcast Shocking Heartbreaking Transformative from Radiotopia Presents was lauded as one of the best of 2024 by the New York Times. She has been teaching at Hunter since 2021.
Kadia Tubman
Kadia Tubman is a national news correspondent on Scripps News. Formerly, she was the managing editor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Business Insider’s global newsroom. Prior to that she was Insider’s senior news editor guiding Insider’s breaking news and enterprise coverage on weekends. Kadia began her career as a national politics reporter at Yahoo News, covering breaking news, voting rights and immigration. Kadia was also a 2018 Reuters journalist-fellow at the University of Oxford, where she researched user-generated content in global newsrooms. Kadia earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Babson College and a master’s from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She is from Brooklyn, New York, but lives in the Bronx with her wife and dog Canela.
