Beth Knobel

Beth Knobel had a 20-year long career as a journalist before joining Fordham University in 2007. She brings experience in all major areas of journalism—newspapers, magazines, television, radio and Internet--to her classes. From 1999 to 2006, she was the Moscow Bureau Chief for CBS News. In nine years at CBS, she worked as both an on-air correspondent as well as a producer. She is a recipient of an Emmy award for coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege, and Edward R. Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards for coverage of the 2004 Beslan school siege. She still works as a freelance producer for CBS News. Dr. Knobel spent 14 years total living in Moscow, where she worked for The Los Angeles Times, the television news agency Worldwide Television News, and the production company Feature Story before joining CBS News. Earlier in her career, she worked for The New York Times and Ladies‘ Home Journal magazine, and during her student days edited The Columbia Daily Spectator and Governance: The Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Dr. Knobel received masters and doctoral degrees in public policy from Harvard University, and her bachelors in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Her research interests include Journalism Studies; Watchdog Journalism; Television Production; Press, Politics and Public Policymaking; Political Communication; Russia

Companies

• Associate Professor of Comm. & Media Studies, teaching Journalism; Director of Graduate Studies Fordham University (2018)
• Expert witness, legal cases in intellectual property, journalism, and broadcasting Freelance (2014)
• Alumni Trustee Columbia Daily Spectator (2010)
• Freelance Producer and Reporter; Expert on Russian Affairs CBS News (2007)
• Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Associate Chair Fordham University (2007 — 2018)
• Moscow Bureau Chief and Producer. Emmy, Murrow and SPJ Award Winner. CBS News (1997 — 2006)