Tom Goldstein

Professor & Interim Dean
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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:

Fall 2011: Law and Ethics

Spring 2011: Law and Ethics

Spring 2011: Understanding Journalism

Fall 2010: Law and Ethics

Fall 2010: Master's Project Seminar

Fall 2009: Law and Ethics

Spring 2009: Understanding Journalism

Fall 2008: Law and Ethics

Spring 2008: Law and Ethics

Spring 2008: The Mass Media and Society

Fall 2007: Law and Ethics

Spring 2007: The Mass Media and Society

Summer 2005: The Mass Media and Society

Fall 2006: Law and Ethics

Spring 2006: The Mass Media and Society

Fall 2005: Reporting the News - Goldstein/Williams

Fall 2005: Law and Ethics

Spring 2005: Mass Media and Society