Weinberg Resident Journalists

The Resident Journalist program is sponsored by the family of Robert L. Weinberg, a member of the Class of 1940 and devotee of Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken. Resident journalists give a presentation to Upper School students and meet with classes throughout the day.

2023-24 Resident Journalist: SophieĀ NeimanĀ ’13

Sophie is a freelance journalist based in Uganda, where she reports for leading outlets including Al Jazeera, The Christian Science Monitor,Ā New Internationalist, andThe New York Review of Books. She holds a master’s degree in African Studies from the University of Cambridge, and is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center. Sophie is a proud former editor-in-chief of theĀ Postscript, Park’s award-winning student-run newspaper, where her passion for journalism began.


Past Weinberg Resident Journalists

2022-2023

Michelle Singletary

Michelle Singletary writes the award-winning and nationally syndicated personal finance column “The Color of Money,” which appears in The Washington Post on Wednesdays and Sundays.

In 2021, she won the Gerald Loeb award for commentary. She has written four personal finance books, including, What to Do With Your Money When Crisis Hits: A Survival Guide and The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom. Singletary was the financial expert for “The Revolution,” a daytime program on ABC. For two years, she was the host of her own national television program, “Singletary Says,” on TV One. She is a frequent contributor to NPR programs and has appeared on national talk shows and television networks, including CNN, PBS, NBC’s “Today” and “The Early Show on CBS.” In 2020, The Washington Post celebrated her long and distinguished career at the paper with the Eugene Meyer Award, its highest journalistic honor. 

2019-2020

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is an award-winning journalist and author. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Previously, Elizabeth worked at the New York Times, where she wrote the Metro Matters column and served as the paper’s Albany bureau chief. Her three-part series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest and the 2006 National Academies Communication Award. She received a Heinz Award in 2010, and won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.

She is the editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 and the author of The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit; Field Notes from a Catastrophe; and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She received the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017.


2018-2019

Sacha Pfeiffer

A print and broadcast journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer is a member of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its stories on the Catholic Church’s cover-up of clergy sex abuse. That reporting is the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “Spotlight.” Pfeiffer has also been the host of “All Things Considered” and “Radio Boston” at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, where she won a national 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting. Pfeiffer was a 2004–5 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University and is a co-author of the book Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church. (www.bostonglobe.com)

2017-2018

April Ryan

April Ryan is a reporter, author, and White House Correspondent for The Grio. Ryan is one of only three African Americans to serve on the board of the prestigious White House Correspondents Association, and was named the 2017 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She is also an esteemed member of the National Press Club. Ryan is the author of the award-winning book, The Presidency in Black and White, and At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White.

2016-2017

Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. A former reporter and editor for The Washington Post, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 2003. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012, among others. Boo was named a MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow in 2002. A series she wrote for the Washington Post on the treatment of the mentally disabled in D.C. earned a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000.


2015-2016

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and the New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, for which he won the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations.”


2014-2015

Aaron Henkin

Aaron Henkin is co-creator and producer of The Signal on WYPR. His work has aired nationally on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, PRI’s Studio 360 and The World, and APM’s The Story. Aaron is also creator, producer, and host of the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings radio series, Tapestry of the Times.


David Maraniss

2013-2014

David is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate-editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election.


2012-2013

Frank Bond

Frank is a 23-year veteran of television news. He’s producer for the Newseum and The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation that champions the First Amendment.


2011-2012

Panel Discussion

With a special focus on Baltimore news, Susan Weintraub and Peter Warren moderated a panel discussion with three local journalists. Panelists include:

Deborah Weiner ’82, Anchor and Reporter, WBAL-TV

Steve Young, News Editor, The Baltimore Sun

Fern Shen, Founder and Editor, Baltimore Brew


2010-2011

Helene Cooper

White House correspondent for The New York Times.


2009-2010

Josh Tyrangiel ’90

Editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek and former deputy managing editor of Time magazine, where he oversaw Time.com.


2008-2009

Alix Spiegel ’89

A graduate of Park School and a reporter with NPR’s National Desk, covering social policy.


2007-2008

Bill McKibben

Environmentalist, educator and author of The End of Nature and Enough.


2006-2007

Ed Burns

Emmy Award-winning television writer. Creator of The Wire and The Corner. Burns is a former Baltimore detective and public school teacher and often draws upon these experiences for his writing.


2005-2006

Seymour Hersh

Contributor to The New Yorker and author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.


2004-2005

Mark Crispin Miller

Director of the Project on Media Ownership at New York University and author of Boxed In: The Culture of TV.


2003-2004

Walt Handelsman ’75

Park School Graduate and two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner; Editorial Cartoonist for Newsday.


2002-2003

Dee Dee Myers

Former Press Secretary to President Clinton.


2001-2002

Frank Rich

Op-Ed Columnist and former Drama Critic for The New York Times.


2000-2001

Dudley Clendinen

Member of the Editorial Board, The New York Times


1999-2000

John Eisenberg

Baltimore Sun Sports Section.


1998-1999

Howard Fineman

Senior Editor and Chief Political Correspondent for Newsweek.