Sarah Bartlett, dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, was chosen by City & State NY as one of New York’s most powerful leaders over 50.
“Under Sarah Bartlett’s leadership, CUNY’s journalism school secured a $20 million endowment from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark,” City & State NY said. “The funding will help the school further its mission of educating the next generation of journalists. An accomplished journalist who has worked at Fortune and The New York Times, Bartlett said young journalists ‘have to be prepared for long hours and low pay, and they have to be self-directed learners, as the tools of the trade are changing constantly.’”
Asked how she felt about the honor, Bartlett said: “Well, I wish it was the ’50 Under 50’ list. That said, I’m very fortunate to have held jobs that I’ve always felt passionate about. Journalism may be challenging, but it’s the most satisfying profession on earth.”
Bartlett has been dean of the Newmark J-School since January 2014. She joined CUNY in 2002 as the Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism at Baruch College. She moved to the graduate journalism school in 2006, after serving on its founding curriculum committee. She created and oversaw both the Urban Reporting and the Business & Economics subject concentrations and helped found the school’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media.
Bartlett’s journalism career began in 1979, when she joined a documentary film company in London as a research assistant. In 1981, she returned to the United States and began covering business as a researcher/reporter at Fortune magazine. She then moved to BusinessWeek, where she served as a staff reporter and an associate editor from 1983 to 1988 and an assistant managing editor from 1992 to 1998.
She was also a reporter at The New York Times from 1988 to 1992, covering urban affairs, business and financial issues; a contributing editor at Inc. magazine, and the editor-in-chief of Oxygen Media.
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