Nine visiting professors will join the Program in Journalism at Princeton University for the 2026-27 academic year. These accomplished visitors include investigative reporters, editors, authors, audio journalists, and filmmakers whose work has been recognized nationally and internationally.
The new cohort of visiting faculty will share their expertise with a vibrant and growing undergraduate program, led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold. Each visiting professor will teach an intensive course in journalism or creative nonfiction within the Humanities Council, the academic home of the long-running Ferris and McGraw Seminars. The seminars will complement those regularly taught by the program’s in-residence faculty, including Griswold and Deborah Amos, an award-winning international correspondent.
Next year’s course offerings will introduce students to forensic data journalism, criticism writing, and investigative podcasting, and explore storytelling about religion, migration, the climate crisis, and abuse in sports. Students will learn to conduct rigorous, fact-based reporting and craft compelling nonfiction across a range of formats in the changing media landscape. Courses are open to students across all concentrations and fulfill requirements toward the minor in journalism.
“We’re incredibly lucky to have such a cohort of accomplished international journalists joining us next year,” said Griswold, director of the program and professor of the practice. “The courses they will offer on a broad range of subjects and skills reflect our desire to bring the world into our classrooms and seminars.”
Dan Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes and the author of “White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business.” Over 14 years at Forbes, he has dug into the finances of all sorts of people—manufacturing tycoons, sports owners, private-equity moguls, crypto entrepreneurs and many, many politicians. His work prompted state and federal investigations, came up repeatedly during Donald Trump’s fraud trial and helped send longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to jail. Alexander will teach a Spring 2027 seminar on business journalism titled “Follow the Money.”
Andrea Bernstein is a Peabody and two-time duPont-Columbia Award-winning investigative journalist, author, podcaster, and longtime public radio reporter and editor. She is the author of the bestselling book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power,” and was co-host and creator of the podcasts “Trump, Inc.,” “Will Be Wild,” “We Don’t Talk About Leonard,” and “The Law According to Trump.” In addition to NPR, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. She will teach a spring course on the power of investigative podcasting.
Jeff Chu is a journalist, author, and essayist who serves as editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. Previously on staff at TIME and Fast Company, he has also written for numerous other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of “Does Jesus Really Love Me?”and “Good Soil”as well as co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of the New York Times bestseller “Wholehearted Faith.” A member of Princeton’s Class of 1999, Jeff will teach a fall course on reading and writing about religion.
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and critic at The New Yorker, and the co-host of “Critics at Large,” the publication’s weekly podcast about culture and the arts. His debut novel, “Great Expectations,” was published in 2024. In his third year in the program, he will teach the Spring 2027 McGraw Seminar in Writing, “The Pleasure Principle,” which will focus on crafting arts and culture criticism in journalistic contexts.
Karen DeYoung is senior national security correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where she has been a foreign correspondent and Washington reporter covering the White House, the State Department, and the intelligence community. She is the author of “Soldier,” a biography of Colin Powell. She will teach a Fall 2026 course on “The End of the Humanitarian Era.” In the course, students will examine and report on the collapse of the post-World War II foreign aid structure.
Josh Fine is an investigative reporter and producer whose work has appeared on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, CBS News’ 60 Minutes, and ABC’s World News Tonight. His reporting has examined the International Olympic Committee, Qatar’s rise in global sport, the NCAA’s treatment of student-athletes, the NFL’s disability system, and how Vladimir Putin uses sports to further his repressive regime. He’s a two-time winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In Fall 2026, he will teach “Investigative Journalism: Crime, Corruption and Abuse in Sports.”
Christo Grozev is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker writing for Der Spiegel and The Insider. He previously served as lead Russia investigator and executive director at Bellingcat. His work has exposed the perpetrators behind the Skripal poisoning and the Navalny poisoning, identified the assassin of a Chechen exile in Berlin, and uncovered numerous Russian clandestine operations. He co-produced the films “Navalny” and “Antidote.” This fall, he will teach the principles and ethical framework of forensic journalism and big-data-driven story discovery.
Carolyn Kormann is a journalist, author, and editor. She writes for The New Yorker about climate change, nature, energy, and science. She has also published articles in New York Magazine, Harper’s, and Daedalus, the journal of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her book, “How to Be a Bat,” will be published in 2027. She is a story editor at Now Voyager, a new print magazine of global reporting. She returns to Princeton this year as a Visiting Ferris Professor in Residence. She will teach the Spring 2027 undergraduate seminar “Reporting the Anthropocene” on environmental journalism.
Mary Beth Sheridan has spent four decades as a reporter and editor working on international and national news, most recently as Mexico bureau chief for The Washington Post. She has covered wars and revolutions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but has focused in recent years on transnational issues such as migration and drug trafficking. Her Spring 2027 course, “Reporting Across Borders,” will use journalistic tools to analyze and produce compelling stories about globalization, focusing on the links between the United States and Latin America.
For more information about the 2026-27 visiting faculty and a list of journalism courses offered in the fall, please visit the Program in Journalism website.
