| SANDEEP JUNNARKAR is an associate professor at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (The City University of New York) and the editorial director of Lives in Focus, a Web site that uses video, audio and photographs to present the voices of those who are rarely given space or time in traditional news media.
He entered the online journalism world at its infancy in 1994 as part of a team gathered to present The New York Times on America Online, a service called @times. He later became a breaking news editor, writer and Web producer when the paper went live on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web. He was also a frequent contributor to the Times' Circuits section.
Sandeep served as a reporter and New York Bureau chief for News.com from 1998 to 2003. He has won numerous awards, including an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association.
He received a Masters in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia in 1994, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley.
Sandeep has served on the SAJA board since 2003.
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