Newhouse School of Communications

Joel Kaplan
Associate Dean, Professional Graduate Studies
Newspaper_Online_Journalism

M.S.L. 1990 Yale Law School
M.S. 1979 Journalism, University of Illinois
B.A. 1978 Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Office: Newhouse 2 Rm. 330A
Telephone: (315) 443-1429
Email: jkkaplan@syr.edu

Professor Kaplan teaches advanced reporting and communications law. Prior to that, he covered city hall for The Chicago Tribune and was a member of the newspaper's investigative team. From 1979 to 1986, he was a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered the state legislature. In 1986, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series on then U.S. Rep. Bill Boner.

He is a co-author of Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final Rampage of Laurie Dann (Warner Books). The movie version of that book originally was broadcast on CBS. He was a Nieman Fellow (1985) at Harvard University and a Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School (1991), where he received a master's in the study of law. He also has a master's in journalism from the University of Illinois.

He is a former treasurer and board member of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE). Kaplan and his wife, Susan Miller Kaplan, who teaches on-line database searching to Newhouse students, live with their four children, Ellie, Noah, Jack, and Liam in DeWitt.

Expertise:

• Investigative Reporting
• Law (Communications, First Amendment)