Gourmet Editor Ruth Reichl was upbeat about many things when she spoke to Columbia journalism students last week, even the economic downturn. "The silver lining in this recession is that it is making people cook more," she said. Reichl, the latest Delacorte Lecture speaker, has reasons to...

Joanna Coles, the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine who is featured in the upcoming reality series Running in Heels, spoke to students at Columbia's Journalism School on February 19 about editing, parenting, and working as a foreign correspondent. Her bottom line to students of journalism: B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!

Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown had some advice for Journalism School students at Columbia last week: go to India! Speaking to a packed room as part of the school's Delacorte Magazine Lecture Series, Brown talked about her transition from print to online media, and assured students that...

CBS News Anchor Katie Couric spoke with humor and candor when she hosted the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism last month. Thirteen winners received duPont batons for their enterprising reporting, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour for "God's Warriors" and author and reporter Sebastian...

Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists interviewed three foreign correspondents about their experiences covering the war for a video special report, Dateline Iraq. We spoke to Bobby Ghosh, Time magazine's world editor, James Glanz, New York Times...