# Media & Journalism ## expand\_more [### Abigail Crutchfield Arzoumanov ](/people/abigail-crutchfield-arzoumanov)Class of 2010, Modern Europe Vice President of Washington and Special Events Programming, CNN **Thesis Title:** Mirror to a City: A Reinterpretation of George Balanchine's "Abstract" Ballet Agon as a Reflection of 1950s New York City **What Now:** I am now the Vice President of CNN's Washington and Special Events Programming. I oversee all shows produced... ![crutchfield.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/crutchfield.jpg?itok=etWA_Tpx) [### Raquel Coronell Uribe ](/people/raquel-coronell-uribe)American Studies, Class of 2024 Politics reporter at NBC News **What Now:** Politics reporter at NBC News When I first arrived at Harvard, I had no idea the History & Literature department even existed — much less that I would end up concentrating in it. I spent my first two years pre-med and a Government concentrator... ![Raquel Coronell Uribe](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Raquel%20Coronell%20Uribe.jpg?itok=25b_dody) [### Nicholas Fandos ](/people/nicholas-fandos)Class of 2015, America Metro Correspondent, The New York Times **What Now:** Metro correspondent for *The New York Times* **What Next:** Hopefully many more long nights in a newsroom, any newsroom. I knew I wanted to be a journalist before I ever decided to concentrate in History & Literature. Now, I can’t imagine my career... ![Nicholas Fandos](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/for_hl.png?itok=7_M39DxZ) [### Michael Grynbaum ](/people/michael-grynbaum)Class of 2007, America National Correspondent, The New York Times **Thesis Title:** A Joke by Any Other Name: Hoax as a Social Protest (Three Case Studies) **What Now:** National Correspondent, *The New York Times* Three years of History & Literature trained me to explain the nuances of postmodern theory and American culture... ![michael_grynbaum_07_photo_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/michael_grynbaum_07_photo_1.jpg?itok=s2Y-Sj2P) [### Mattie Kahn ](/people/mattie-kahn)Class of 2015, America Writer **Thesis Title:** "A Magazine of High Character": Failure, Foresight, and the Literary Project of Edgar Allan Poe **What Now:** Writer I knew from the beginning that I wanted to concentrate in History & Literature. I wanted to be able to read and write with abandon... ![Mattie Kahn](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screenshot_2023-05-26_at_11.06.41_am.png?itok=S89ETIXy) [### Leah Reis-Dennis ](/people/leah-reis-dennis)Class of 2013, America Producer, Poetry in America & Co-Founder, Verse Video Education **Thesis Title:** Lifting up the Lower East Side: Uptown Jewish Women, "Ghetto Girls," and the Effort to Redeem Jewish Female Delinquency in New York, 1900-1924 **What Now:** Producer of *Poetry in America*, Co-Founder of Verse Video Education **What Next:** Producing... ![Leah Reis-Dennis](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/1a42ce71-e590-475e-bb48-78cdae6ec6b2.jpg?itok=TTX8dOQa) [### Amy Weiss-Meyer ](/people/amy-weiss-meyer)Class of 2015, America Senior Editor, The Atlantic **Thesis Title:** *New York*, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977 **What Now:** Senior Editor at *The Atlantic* **What Next:** As long as it exists, I have no plans to leave magazine journalism! Being able to choose research topics and craft my own... ![amy_weiss-meyer_15_photo_1.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/amy_weiss-meyer_15_photo_1.jpeg?itok=3gykaSRM)