Solomon is an associate professor at New York University (NYU) and the director of
graduate studies in the Department of Journalism. He is also the founder and director of
the NYU Master of Arts program in Business and Economic Reporting. He
received his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His academic specialty is First
Amendment law; he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on freedom of speech and freedom
of the press in Journalism as well as in the freshman honors
program in the College of Arts and Science. He was awarded NYU's Golden
Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.
Solomon was a writer at Fortune magazine and has written for many other national publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Nation.
His articles have won the two most prestigious awards for business
writing, the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for
Excellence, as well as the Sidney Hillman Prize. Professor Solomon is
also co-author of Building 6: The Tragedy at Bridesburg, an
investigation of the working conditions that caused the deaths of 54
men from respiratory cancer at Rohm and Haas, a Fortune 500 chemical company
in Philadelphia. The revelations in the book led to legal action by
victims' families against the company, and they received a
multi-million dollar settlement.
