God and the Newsroom
A talk by Paul Glader at Bethel University in 2017 and in May 2019 in New York City to leaders in media and religion
Paul Glader is a professor of journalism, media and entrepreneurship at The King’s College in New York City, where he also directs the McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute. He is founder and co- director of NYC Semester in Journalism (NYCJ) and co-advises the student online news portal, magazine and video platform, The Empire State Tribune. He serves as executive director of The Media Project, a non-profit training program for international journalists and executive editor of its award-winning ReligionUnplugged.com site. He’s raised more than $3 million in grants for journalism programs at King’s. He also is founder of the startup VettNews, which was part of the NYC Media Lab’s Combine accelerator and built its Cx technology with a grant from Knight Foundation. He was the Laventhol / Newsday Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in Spring 2018, serving as lead professor for the capstone M.A. Seminar in Business. He’s directed the business reporting program for the Dow Jones News Fund since2017.
An award-winning journalist, he spent 10 years as a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, covering a variety of beats including technology, health & science, travel, metals & mining and finance. He’s written for countless publications including The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Der Spiegel Online, The Indianapolis Star, FastCompany.com, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The American Legion, Christianity Today and Forbes.com. Appearances on international TV and radio programs include CNBC, Fox Business, Infobae, All India Radio and WSJ Radio. He speaks regularly at high school and college journalism conferences nationwide.
He has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of South Dakota, a master’s from Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at the graduate schools of business and journalism. He earned an EMBA and served as a media scholar at The Berlin School of Creative Leadership at Steinbeis University in Germany. He lived in Germany from 2011-2013, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow and as a European Journalism Fellow at Freie Universität in Berlin. He’s a roster specialist for the Fulbright Program through 2025.