Visiting Faculty Spring 2026

Saeed Ahmed is the VP of News for Digital Platforms at the AP. He leads the news organization’s efforts to deepen engagement with audiences on site, social and other emerging platforms — and bring AP’s world class journalism to more people, in more modern ways.

Prior to that, he was the head of digital journalism at the BBC, tasked with conceiving and executing on a strategy to radically grow audience, impact and commercial revenue in North America. 

Ahmed also served as the director of digital news at NPR and he led CNN’s content diversity initiative.

Chris Megerian is a White House reporter at the Associated Press. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Times in Washington and California, covering the Russia investigation, the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, natural disasters and political campaigns. He also covered crime and politics at the Star-Ledger in New Jersey.

He is originally from the Boston area and he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta. He has taught political journalism and campaign journalism at Georgetown. 

Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company, she’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation. Her work has been recognized with several Emmy and Peabodys wins among other notable awards. 

Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor (the youngest ever to hold that role), and now as a senior leader wrestling with big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. 

Paul Elie is a senior fellow in Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

He is the author of two books, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage” (2003) and “Reinventing Bach: Music, Technology, and the Search for Transcendence” (2012), both National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, as well as dozens of essays, articles, reviews, and prefaces — for The New York Times and its Book Review and Sunday magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and Commonweal, as well as The New Yorker.

His third book, “The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s,” will be published in May 2025.

Bhumika Tharoor is managing editor at The Atlantic. She was previously with CNN and The Washington Post. Bhumika has her MBA from Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC with her husband and daughter. 

Neil Bedi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times. He is a member of the Visual Investigations team, which uses advanced digital techniques like satellite imagery, visual forensics and social media analysis. Previously, he worked at ProPublica and the Tampa Bay Times.

Bedi came to journalism from a job developing software on Wall Street and has built a career combining old-school watchdog reporting with modern data-driven techniques.

 Mike Hume is a Senior Managing Editor for The Athletic overseeing fantasy and sports betting coverage. Before joining The Athletic, he spent over 9 years in a number of editing roles at The Washington Post, helping launch The Post’s national sports coverage efforts in 2014, founding a vertical to cover the video game industry and culture, and overseeing the Post’s collection of puzzles and games as part of the Emerging News Products team.

Prior to his time at The Post, he worked for ESPN and notes that working at the company’s Bristol headquarters is exactly how it’s depicted in the company’s SportsCenter commercials. 

A Connecticut native, Mike now resides with his family in Arlington, Va., and is a graduate of Georgetown University (COL ’03).