CNN Business has hired Paul Glader to be a senior editor overseeing company coverage.
Glader previously was 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 the NYC Semester in Journalism (NYCJ) and co-advises the student online news portal, magazine and video platform, The Empire State Tribune.
He served as executive director of The Media Project, a non-profit news platform and training program for international journalists and executive editor of its ReligionUnplugged.com site. Glader was the Laventhol / Newsday Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in the Spring of 2018, serving as lead professor for the capstone M.A. Seminar in Business.
Glader has raised more than $3 million in grant funding for journalism programs at King’s. He also is founder and CEO of a startup called VettNews, which is one of eight university teams to participate in the NYC Media Lab’s Combine accelerator in the Spring of 2019.
An award-winning journalist, Glader 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.
