Mark Feldstein
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs

Phone: (202) 994-4632
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: feldy@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 411

Expertise

Media history, Ethics and Law; Broadcast News Journalism; Investigative Reporting and Freedom of Expression.

Courses Taught

JOUR 111, Reporting and Writing the News
JOUR 122, Broadcast News Reporting
JOUR 190, Investigative Reporting

Selected Works

Television Broadcasts:

"Saving Richard," Dateline NBC one-hour documentary on child abuse, June 2000.

"Keeping the Peace?" Dateline NBC broadcast on human rights atrocities by United Nations peacekeepers, Jan. 1999.

"Crossing the Line," Dateline NBC series on sex harassment at Ford Motor Co., June 1998.

"Divided Unions," CNN one-hour documentary on corruption in the Teamster's Union, Dec. 1996.

"Profiting from Poverty," CNN one-hour documentary on waste and corruption in U.S. foreign aid program, Dec. 1991.

"Prisoners of the Harvest," ABC News "Nightline" series on migrant farmworker slavery, Aug. 1983.

Background

Mark Feldstein has been beaten up and sued in the United States, detained and censored by authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed guard in Haiti. But in 2002, this highly-acclaimed investigative reporter embarked on a different type of adventure as a member of the SMPA faculty.

With more than two decades of experience as a broadcast journalist and investigative reporter, Feldstein is best known in the nation's capital for his expos�s of drug use and corruption by former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and his administration. He went on to spend seven years as an on-air investigative correspondent for CNN's Washington bureau, where his daily, magazine and documentary reports appeared on all major shows including Inside Politics, Reliable Sources, CNN Presents and Headline News. From 1998 to 2000, Feldstein was Washington investigative producer for Dateline NBC, the Today show and MSNBC, where he uncovered scandals ranging from human rights atrocities by UN peacekeepers to sexual harassment at the Ford Motor Company. As a correspondent for ABC News in New York, his stories appeared on Nightline, World News Tonight and Good Morning, America.

His numerous journalism prizes include two George Foster Peabody awards for expos�s of medical malpractice and migrant farmworker slavery. He has also won the Edward R. Murrow broadcasting award, the Columbia-Dupont silver baton, and nine regional Emmys. Feldstein's achievements also extend to print reporting where his freelance articles have appeared in such publications as Time, The Washington Monthly, and The Nation.

No stranger to the classroom, Feldstein has lectured in journalism, law and broadcasting at American University Law School, Duke University, GW, University of Michigan, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also been featured as a guest speaker at government agencies and media organizations such as the FBI training academy in Quantico, Va., the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Freedom Forum.


Click here to read Feldstein's profile in GW's By George.

Education

Ph.D., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

B.A., Government, Harvard University, 1979.