Faculty

Edith Updike

Edith Updike began her journalism career in Japan in the late 1980s, writing corporate materials for some of Japan’s top companies while serving as managing editor of the arts and entertainment monthly Tokyo Today. In 1994, she worked on the business desk of New York Newsday before joining Business Week as a foreign correspondent, later becoming an editor for the magazine’s entrepreneurial editorial venture, Enterprise. As founding news editor, Updike led the Long Island Press, which in just three years grew to the fourth-largest alternative newsweekly in the U.S., through its prize-winning expose of circulation fraud at Newsday. She has consulted to Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups, notably in media relations, information architecture and Internet marketing. Her freelance work has appeared in U.S. papers from Chicago to Dallas, and around the globe in publications such as Asia Money & Finance and Travel Journal International. Updike has often appeared as a guest or panelist in public venues and broadcast media, including National Public Radio and CNN. She received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

Edith Updike teaches Business and Media Writing, Working with the Media, and Advanced Communications Project.