Tom Goldstein

Professor and Dean Emeritus
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Tom Goldstein is a professor of Journalism and director of the Media Studies Program at Berkeley. He has been a journalism educator for more than 20 years, first at the University of Florida, then at Berkeley (where he served as dean from 1988 to 1996) and finally at Columbia (where he served as dean from 1997 to 2002). Goldstein worked as a reporter at AP, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He was press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Goldstein has written “The News at Any Cost,” “A Two-Faced Press” and co-authored “The Lawyers Guide to Writing Well.” He edited the “Killing the Messenger: 100 years of Press Criticism.” Goldstein is a graduate of Yale and Columbia’s law school and journalism school.

He is the West Coast editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.

Courses Taught by Tom Goldstein:

Spring 2005: J141 Mass Media and Society - Spring 2005

Fall 2005: J200 Reporting the News - Goldstein/Williams - Fall 2005

Fall 2005: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2005

Spring 2006: J141 The Mass Media and Society - Spring 2006

Fall 2006: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2006

Summer 2005: J141 The Mass Media and Society - Summer 2005

Spring 2007: J141 The Mass Media and Society - Spring 2007

Fall 2007: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2007

Spring 2008: J255 Law and Ethics - Spring 2008

Spring 2008: J141 The Mass Media and Society - Spring 2008

Fall 2008: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2008

Spring 2009: J141 Understanding Journalism - Spring 2009

Fall 2009: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2009

Fall 2010: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2010

Fall 2010: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2010

Spring 2011: J255 Law and Ethics - Spring 2011

Spring 2011: J141 Understanding Journalism - Spring 2011

Fall 2011: J255 Law and Ethics - Fall 2011

Spring 2013: J255 Law and Ethics - Spring 2013