Sulzberger Fellows get results.

"This program looks at the big picture, long term, and what you need to do at your core to transform the company."

--Lou Ferrara, Associated Press, Vice President and Managing Editor for Entertainment, Sports and Interactive Media

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Alfredo Carbajal

Managing Editor

Al Día, Spanish Speaking Newspaper of Dallas Morning News

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John Yemma

Executive Editor

Christian Science Monitor

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Jane Eisner

Editor

The Forward

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Marcus Wilford

Former Director of News Coverage for Europe, Middle East and Africa

ABC News, London Bureau

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David Kellogg

Chief Information Officer and Publisher

Council on Foreign Relations

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Lou Ferrara was a Fellow in the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia Journalism School in 2007. He talks about how the program has impacted the Associated Press.

Jason Kissell, of the Boston Globe, reflects on his results from his year as a Fellow in the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia Journalism School. His remarks were made at the graduation dinner in January of 2010.

Richard Porter, Director of News Content for BBC World News, talks about his experience in the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia Journalism School. Porter completed the program in January of 2010.

Alfredo Carbajal talks about his experience in the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia Journalism School. He completed the program in January of 2010.

Jane Eisner was a Fellow of the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia Journalism School in 2009. She reflects on her experience.

Listen to a report by NPR on the Punch Sulzberger Program. http://n.pr/brno0L

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Our Program

The core of this program focuses on the projects that Fellows identify at their news enterprises. We call these projects "challenges" in the Sulzberger Program...Read More »

Fellows

Our Fellows are executives from all media platforms including Web, eReaders, social media, television, magazine, newspapers, radio, mobile and tablets.Read More »

Application

The Sulzberger Program is designed as a tool for senior news executives and managers who have the potential to run their organizations. Applications are due on December 10.Read More »

Editorial and business-side news executives work on a project essential to their company with business coaches for a year. Fellows travel to Columbia for four one-week intensive business seminars throughout the year.

The program immerses high ranking news media executives in the use of strategy, innovation, marketing, demographics, journalism values and other critical approaches to help resolve challenges confronting their organizations and create long-term performance and change within their organizations.

The program is augmented with mentors, peer discussions, specific assignments and content tailored around the Fellows’ projects.

The Punch Sulzberger Program combines the best assets of the university’s executive business school faculty with the talents of the nation’s premiere thinkers about the future of journalism.

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