The Silurians Press Club

Joseph Berger has been a prize-winning reporter, editor and columnist at The New York Times for more than 30 years, focusing on education, religion and the ethnic and cultural richness of New York City. He retired in 2014, but contributes regularly to The Times and teaches urban affairs at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. Among his honors, he received the Silurians’ Peter Kihss Award in 2011. Prior to joining The Times in 1984, Berger covered religion at Newsday, then moved to The New York Post, reporting on the 1973 Middle East War and Watergate. He is the author of the highly acclaimed memoir “Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust.”