"Joan Konner" is an American academic and journalist who is an Emeritus Professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Konner received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.S. from Columbia University before becoming a journalist with the Bergen Record. She has produced over 50 documentaries and television series, including the PBS series The Power of Myth, and She Says/Women in News, which won a 2002 Emmy Award. In September 1988 she became the first female Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, a position she held for 8 years. From 1988 to 1999 she was the publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review.

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Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

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Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

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I don't like blurring lines between news and editorial. If Cooper and the others are working out their search for meaning in life on the air, that is not the role of a journalist.

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That's the least they could do, ... This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

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This life isn't bad for a first draft.

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