Claire Regan

A passionate journalist with more than 30 years of experience in the newsroom and the college classroom, Claire Regan is an assistant professor of journalism and faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Wagner College, her alma mater in New York City.

She served as the 106th national president of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) from 2022 to 2023 and was a three-term president of the Deadline Club, SPJ’s New York City chapter.

Claire’s reporting, editing, and design work as longtime associate managing editor at the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance, her hometown newspaper, has been honored by the Associated Press, the Society for News Design, the New York Deadline Club, and the New York Press Club.

She completed a yearlong fellowship in journalism ethics at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and received the Charles O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association. She earned the Diversity and Internationalization Award from Wagner College for her work with the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a program for young African leaders.

Claire is a founding board member of the Journalists Association of New York and a member of the Silurians Press Club of New York.