Eric Alterman

Dist Professor
English

Location: 2416 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3560
Fax: 718.951.4612
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Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished professor of English and Journalism. He is also "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation, a fellow of the Nation Institute, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute in New York. Alterman is the author of nine books, including, most recently, The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama (2012) and the national best-sellers What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, 2004) and Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992). He has been a columnist and/or contributing editor for The Guardian, The Jewish Daily Forward and Rolling Stone, among other publications and a media fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He has previously taught at NYU and Columbia.

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