May 25, 2012
Alexis Gelber ’80, former chair of the Alumni Board at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, received an Alumni Medal at the Columbia University Commencement on May 16.
The Alumni Medal, first awarded in 1933, recognizes alumni for distinguished service of 10 years or more to the University—including its schools, alumni associations, regional Columbia Clubs, and University-wide initiatives.
Gelber is an editorial consultant and adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has served as The Daily Beast’s founding book editor, Newsweek’s national affairs editor and Newsweek International’s managing editor, and she edited special Newsweek coverage of the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections that won a National Magazine Award. In 2011, as a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Gelber published “Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network.” She is a former president of the Overseas Press Club of America.
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