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Beth
Knobel. Assistant Professor of Communications and Media Studies.
A.B, Barnard College, Columbia University; M.P.P., Ph.D. Harvard University.
Department
of Communications and Media Studies, Fordham College at Rose Hill.
 Office:
Fordham University
441 E. Fordham Road
Faculty Memorial Hall Room 454
Bronx, New York 10458
Email:
Phone:
(718) 817-5140, Departmental Assistant is at (718) 817-4850
Fax:
Subjects Taught:
Introduction to Journalism
Television News Innovators
Biography:
Dr.
Knobel joined Fordham from CBS News, where she served as the Moscow Bureau
Chief from 1999-2006. In nine years at CBS, Dr. Knobel was an on-air
correspondent as well as an Emmy-award winning producer. In addition to her
Emmy, won for the coverage of the hostage taking at a Moscow theater, she
received Edward R. Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards for her coverage of the
Beslan school siege in 2004. Professor Knobel lived in Russia for 14 years beginning in 1992, where she worked for The Los Angeles Times, and the
television news agency Worldwide Television News before joining CBS.
She has also worked for The New York Times and Ladies’ Home Journal
magazine. Her dissertation, written under the supervision of former CBS and
NBC correspondent Marvin Kalb, focused on the use of the media by former
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Current Interests and Research:
Dr.
Knobel is writing a book entitled, “Out of This World,” about how foreign
news coverage has changed on television over the past 40 years.
Recent Publications:
“Journalists in Peril,” in Battlegrounds: The
Press, Greenwood Press, upcoming.
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