Beth Knobel

Beth Knobel had a 20-year long career as a journalist before joining Fordham University in 2007 as Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies. From 1999 to 2006, she was the Moscow Bureau Chief for CBS News. In nine years at CBS News, she worked as both an on-air correspondent as well as a producer. She is a recipient of an Emmy award for coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege, and Edward R. Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards for coverage of the 2004 Beslan school siege.

Dr. Knobel spent 14 years total living in Moscow, where she worked for The Los Angeles Times, the television news agency Worldwide Television News, and the production company Feature Story before joining CBS News. Earlier in her career, she worked for The New York Times and Ladies‘ Home Journal magazine, and during her student days edited The Columbia Daily Spectator and Governance: The Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Dr. Knobel received masters and doctoral degrees in public policy from Harvard University, and her bachelors in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University.

In 2010, Dr. Knobel co-authored a guidebook for young journalists with CBS News legend Mike Wallace, Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists. She is currently writing a new book on how watchdog reporting has fared in the Internet era. She also is studying the influence of the Internet and social media on politics in Russia.

At Fordham, Dr. Knobel teaches hands-on courses in all areas of journalism, journalism history, and political communication. She serves as the advisor to the student newspaper on Fordham’s Bronx campus, The Ram.

Outside of Fordham, Dr. Knobel currently serves as a judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, as a trustee of the Columbia Daily Spectator, and on the community advisory board of New York Public Radio. She also blogs for the Huffington Post.