The Program in Journalism at Princeton University will welcome Andrea Bernstein, Vinson Cunningham, and Channing Joseph as Visiting Lecturers in the Humanities Council and Ferris Professors of Journalism in spring 2025.
These visiting journalists will teach undergraduate courses alongside the program’s recurring faculty, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, poet, and translator Eliza Griswold, who joined the University in August as the program’s director.
“We are looking forward to this dazzling crew of visitors—their talent and experience enriches us all,” said Griswold.
Andrea Bernstein is an award-winning journalist, author, and the co-host of the acclaimed podcasts Will Be Wild, Trump, Inc. and We Don’t Talk About Leonard. Her book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power” was a New York Times bestseller and NPR book of the year. Most recently, Bernstein covered five Donald Trump trials in New York City for NPR. She will teach the program’s investigative journalism seminar, “Uncovering Corruption in the 2020s.”
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer for The New Yorker. As a critic, he writes about theater, television, and more. He is a co-host of Critics at Large, the magazine’s weekly podcast about culture and the arts. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2024 and was awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2021-22. His début novel, “Great Expectations,” was published in 2024. He will teach a McGraw Seminar in Writing titled “Writing People.”
Channing Joseph is an award-winning scholar of Black queer history and a journalist with two decades of experience covering race, poverty, and social justice in the U.S. and abroad. He has contributed to The Nation, BBC, CBC and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Guardian, and in other major outlets. In his third year with the program, he will teach a course titled, “The Media and Social Issues: Covering Race & Identity in America.”
Read more about these visitors on the Program in Journalism website.
Princeton’s journalism courses were inaugurated in 1957 by a bequest from former New York Herald journalist Edwin F. Ferris. They have since become some of the nation’s most respected journalism seminars—as well as some of the University’s most highly rated classes. In 2018 the faculty voted unanimously to approve transforming the seminars into a formal academic program.
