Kevin McKenna

Kevin McKenna has taught at Baruch since 2018. He had a 40-year career as an editor at The New York Times and spent much of it helping to guide the paper’s transition to the digital age.

After starting as a copy editor on the foreign desk, he went on to serve as assistant foreign editor, as deputy news editor overseeing the paper’s front page, and as assistant metropolitan editor. In 1995, he became editorial director of the fledgling electronic media operation that created nytimes.com. He later served as the paper’s technology editor and as editor of Circuits, an award-winning weekly section devoted to personal technology.

As a deputy business editor, he was involved in expanding online efforts in business news and for eight years oversaw coverage of economics, energy and the auto industry on all platforms.

Earlier, he worked as a reporter for The Associated Press in Los Angeles and Raleigh, N.C., and as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

Professor McKenna received a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Southern California, where he was editor of the campus newspaper, The Daily Trojan.  He received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.  In 1997-98, he was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, focusing on the intersection of technology, business and communications.