Kevin Lerner

@klerner.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media at Montclair State University. I am a journalism historian, studying press criticism, and literary & alternative journalism.

Photo of a New York Times headline: “Human Touch Wins Support for President in South Korea”
Close-up of a corner of an issue of New York Magazine, showing a cover date of December 16–19, 2024.
Photograph of a full-page advertisement for the satirical newspaper The Onion, in the New York Times for June 22, 2025
Screenshot of the New York Times showing bullet points for “how it started” and “how it’s going” in reference to a feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Photo of a hand holding a Columbia Journalism reporter’s notebook.
Screen shot of Kentucky Derby betting odds showing a horse named Journalism as the favorite.
Marquee of the Bardavon theater in Poughkeepsie, advertising Chris Hayes
Image announcing the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Alumni Achievement Award recipients: Meredith Averill, Lauren Blum, Jenny Creech, Heather Dinich, Michelle Hoover, Kevin Lerner, Aaron Sharockman, and Randy Yeip.
Photograph of page A5 of the New York Times for February 15, 2025, showing two headlines: “A Detour Deep in the Belly of a Whale … Well, Nearly,” and “In Wales, the Hard Right Gains Some Ground.”
Inflatable doll of Edvard Munch’s painting ‘The Scream’ wearing a Marist Red Foxes trucker cap in a professor’s office.
Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads "Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited"
Screenshot of the first line of a New York Times story reading "Mr. Trump said he would spin the reporters himself."