Geanne Belton

Professor Geanne Belton, a Baruch College journalism professor and an attorney, teaches media law and ethics and news literacy at Baruch College of the City University of New York and helped found and design the programming for Press Pass NYC. She also directs Baruch College's High School Journalism outreach program, now in its 18th year. She has freelanced for The New York Times, the National Law Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, and many other newspapers, magazines, and digital publications and previously served as a columnist for the National Law Journal and a staff writer for Investor’s Business Daily, Investment Dealers’ Digest Magazine, and The New Haven Register. Professor Belton is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Law, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Bryn Mawr College. She is an alumna of Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. The journalism education projects and programs she has led have been supported by the Harnisch Foundation, the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, and other grant-making organizations.