Shepard to Step Down at CUNY

OPC member Stephen B. Shepard said in February that he will step down as dean of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism at the end of 2013. He said he expects to continue as a professor and work on projects including the university’s new journalism book imprint.

Shepard became the founding editor of the school in 2006 after serving more than 20 years as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek. Previously, he was a senior editor at Newsweek and editor of the Saturday Review. In 2012, he published a memoir called Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path From Print to Digital. The upcoming vacancy at CUNY follows the announcement in October that Nicholas Lemann will leave as dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in June; Columbia has not announced his replacement.