Sissel McCarthy

Award-winning international business journalist Sissel McCarthy is a Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Journalism Program at Hunter College and founder of NewsLiteracyMatters.com, an online platform dedicated to teaching people how to find credible information in this digital age. She has been teaching news literacy and multimedia reporting and writing for more than 16 years at Hunter College, NYU, and Emory University following her career as an anchor and reporter at CNN and CNBC. Before her career in television news, she worked on Wall Street as a vice president of proprietary trading at Lehman Brothers and Bankers Trust. McCarthy earned her bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College and two master’s degrees at Columbia University.