Joseph Berger
President Emeritus
Joseph Berger has been a prize-winning reporter, editor and columnist at The New York Times for more than 30 years, focusing on education, religion and the ethnic and cultural richness of New York City. He retired in 2014, but contributes regularly to The Times and teaches urban affairs at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. Among his honors, he received the Silurians’ Peter Kihss Award in 2011. Prior to joining The Times in 1984, he worked at the NY Post from 1971-77 and reported on the 1973 Middle East War and Watergate. He moved to Newsday in 1977 where he covered religion. He is the author four acclaimed books, most recently "Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence," published in 2023.
