Miraldi, Robert
M.S. Journalism, Boston University, 1974
Ph.D. American Studies, NYU, 1985
Professor
Career History
"I worked for nearly as a decade as a reporter, editor, and investigative reporter for the Staten Island Advance, a daily newspaper in New York city. I have written extensively for magazines and wrote for eight years a newspaper column about freedom of speech."
Teaching Interests
Mass Media Law
Press in America
Muckraking Journalism
Public Affairs Reporting
Journalism 1
Research/Creative Activity
I have been a journalist and an author of books about journalism's history and its role and place. I am currently editing a book of war correspondence of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and I am also writing a biography of American's most famous investigative journalist.
"I am currently completing another anthology, this one of a famous former New York Times war correspondent. I have completed a large portion of a biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh."
Awards, Honors & Recognition
"I have won numerous awards including, Frank Luther Mott Book Award, best journalism-mass communication book in America, 2003; Second Prize, Column writing in New York State, Associated Press, 1999; First prize, Distinguished column writing, New York Newspaper Publishers Association, 1998; Runner-up Finalist, Scripps-Howard National Journalism Awards, Edward Willis Scripps Award for the First Amendment, 1996; Honorable Mention, Intellectual Freedom Award, New York State Library Association, 1996; Runner-up Finalist, Scripps-Howard National Journalism Awards, Edward Willis Scripps Award for the First Amendment, 1994; John Peter Zenger Award, New York State Bar Association, Best commentary on legal issues in New York State, 1994; John Peter Zenger Award, New York State Bar Association, Best commentary on legal issues in New York State, 1993; Fulbright Scholar, Royal University at Utrecht, the Netherlands for Spring 1991; Fellowship, Outstanding Journalism Educators, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, May 1989."
Publications
"My most recent book came out in 2004 and was named the best biography in journalism and mass communication in the country. I edited an anthology in 2005 that collected the best writing of author and journalist Roger Kahn."
Committee Memberships & Professional Organizations
"I have been actively involved with the Association for Education in Journalism, the America Journalism Historians Association and the Investigative Reporters and Edtiors."
