Andie Tucher

Andie Tucher, a historian and journalist, is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism and the Director of the Communications Ph.D. Program at the Columbia Journalism School. She writes on the evolution of conventions of truth-telling in journalism, photography, personal narrative, and other nonfiction forms. Her book "Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History," published by Columbia University Press in 2022, won the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award, the AEJMC History Division Book Award, the ICA Journalism Studies Division Book Award, and the Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.

Her previous books are "Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories From Twelve Generations of an American Family" (University of Massachusetts 2014), and "Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium" (UNC 1994), which won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. Her articles on aspects of journalism and cultural history have appeared in American Journalism, Book History, Journalism History, Photography and Culture, Cultural Studies, Journalism Practice, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, the New York Law School Law Review, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, the Columbia Journalism Review, Media Studies Journal, Common-place.org, Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society's History of the Book in America series, Mark Canada's edited volume "Literature and Journalism" (2013), and other scholarly and popular publications.

Before coming to Columbia, Tucher served as a speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was an editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television and edited his book World of Ideas II (1990). She also served as editorial producer of the historical documentary series The Twentieth Century at ABC News and an associate editor of Columbia Journalism Review.

Tucher graduated magna cum laude from Princeton as a Classics major, earned her M.S. With Honor in rare-book librarianship from the Columbia University School of Library Service, and holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from New York University. She is a faculty member and a member of the Academic Advisory Board in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) Program.