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<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Journalism</strong> <strong>sChool</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
FaCulty anD staFF news<br />
—<br />
helen BeneDiCT<br />
Professor Helen Benedict has<br />
published her fifth novel, “The<br />
Edge of Eden”<br />
(Soho Press,<br />
November<br />
2009), set in<br />
the Seychelles<br />
Islands in 1960<br />
and inspired<br />
by her parents’ anthropological<br />
field notes. The book was highly<br />
recommended by Library<br />
Journal, which noted that the<br />
author “offers distinctive crosscultural<br />
insights as well as a<br />
cadre of satiric and fascinating<br />
characters, and the result is a<br />
story that is both touching and<br />
humorous.” Benedict recently<br />
also published a nonfiction<br />
book and a related play on<br />
women in the military serving<br />
in Iraq.<br />
DaviD haJDu<br />
Associate Professor David<br />
Hajdu’s latest book, “Heroes<br />
and Villains:<br />
Essays on<br />
Music, Movies,<br />
Comics, and<br />
Culture”<br />
(DaCapo<br />
Press,<br />
October 2009), is “a rollicking<br />
collection. … Hajdu’s essays<br />
never fail to amuse, please and<br />
provoke,” according to PW.com.<br />
Hajdu has been writing<br />
definitively about the arts and<br />
pop culture for the last 13<br />
years. His first two books were<br />
finalists for the National Book<br />
Critics Circle Award and his<br />
third book, “The Ten-Cent<br />
Plague,” was named No. 1 best<br />
book of the year on the arts by<br />
the editors of Amazon.<br />
STeven Berlin<br />
JohnSon<br />
Steven Berlin Johnson, noted<br />
digital media expert and<br />
author, is the<br />
2009 Hearst<br />
New Media<br />
Professionalin-Residence<br />
at the<br />
<strong>Journalism</strong><br />
School. Johnson, who joined<br />
the school this fall, will<br />
participate in classes and<br />
programs and deliver the<br />
annual Hearst lecture in April.<br />
In his bestselling books,<br />
Johnson predicted the rise of<br />
the blogosphere and many<br />
Web 2.0 developments. His<br />
2001 Webby Award-winning<br />
Plastic.com was one of the<br />
first sites featuring content<br />
driven by users. He is also the<br />
co-creator of Outside.In, one<br />
of the first in a new generation<br />
of hyperlocal news sites to<br />
aggregate and map news from<br />
thousands of sources. Johnson<br />
is a contributing editor to<br />
Wired magazine and writes<br />
frequently on the intersection<br />
of culture and technology.<br />
kim kleman<br />
Kim Kleman, adjunct faculty<br />
member, will<br />
be teaching<br />
“Consumer<br />
<strong>Journalism</strong>”<br />
in the spring<br />
semester.<br />
As editor-<br />
in-chief of Consumer Reports<br />
magazine, Kleman showcases<br />
CR’s unique mix of expert,<br />
independent product testing,<br />
survey research, investigative<br />
journalism and consumer<br />
advocacy. She also serves<br />
as deputy editorial director<br />
of Consumers Union and<br />
previously served as managing<br />
editor, deputy editor and<br />
special assignments editor<br />
of Consumer Reports, shepherding<br />
award-winning<br />
investigative projects. She<br />
came to Consumers Union in<br />
1997 from the St. Petersburg<br />
Times in Florida, where she<br />
was an award-winning editor<br />
and the subject of “Coaching<br />
Writers,” a video by the<br />
Poynter Institute for Media<br />
Studies.<br />
kelly mCmaSTerS<br />
Kelly McMasters, a member of<br />
the adjunct faculty, is the<br />
author of the<br />
narrative<br />
nonfiction<br />
book “Wel-<br />
come to<br />
Shirley: A<br />
Memoir from<br />
an Atomic Town” (PublicAffairs,<br />
2008), released in paperback<br />
last April. In her first book,<br />
McMasters, who obtained an<br />
M.F.A. in literary nonfiction<br />
from <strong>Columbia</strong> in 2004,<br />
juxtaposes her happy childhood<br />
in Shirley, Long Island, against<br />
the questionable safety of<br />
nearby Brookhaven National<br />
Laboratory, which leaked toxic<br />
nuclear and chemical waste<br />
into the aquifer from which the<br />
residents unknowingly drew<br />
their well water. Her book has<br />
been featured in O, the Oprah<br />
Magazine, in The Washington<br />
Post and on “The Brian Lehrer<br />
Show” on NPR. McMasters has<br />
a B.A. from Vassar College and<br />
teaches writing at mediabistro.<br />
com and The New School as<br />
well as at the <strong>Journalism</strong><br />
School. She is the co-director<br />
of the KGB Nonfiction Reading<br />
Series in the East Village.<br />
ava Seave<br />
Ava Seave, adjunct faculty<br />
member, will be teaching<br />
“Making the<br />
Business of<br />
<strong>Journalism</strong><br />
Work” in<br />
the spring<br />
semester.<br />
Seave is a<br />
principal of Quantum Media, a<br />
leading New York City-based<br />
consulting firm focused on<br />
marketing and strategic<br />
planning for media, information<br />
and entertainment<br />
companies. Before founding<br />
Quantum Media with four<br />
others in 1998, Seave was a<br />
general manager at three<br />
leading media companies:<br />
Scholastic Inc., The Village<br />
Voice and TVSM, the country’s<br />
largest cable listings magazine.<br />
She teaches “Strategic<br />
Management of Media” and<br />
“Media Strategy: Analysis,<br />
Innovation and Implementation”<br />
at <strong>Columbia</strong> Business<br />
School. She is the co-author<br />
(with Jonathan Knee and<br />
Bruce Greenwald) of a book<br />
titled “Curse of the Mogul:<br />
What’s Wrong with the World’s<br />
Leading Media Companies.”