He is founder and co-director of the NYC Semester in Journalism (NYCJ) and co-advises the student online news portal, magazine and video platform, The Empire State Tribune. He directs the business reporting program for the Dow Jones News Fund at NYU. He is executive director of The Media Project, a non-profit news platform and training program for international journalists. He is currently the Laventhol / Newsday Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Journalism School this semester.