Class of 2010 student Khristina Narizhnaya, who interned with the Associated Press in Moscow this summer, accompanies an AP cameraman and photographer to a burned-down village in the Ryazan region, one of the worst hit by recent forest fires in Russia.

Perry Santanachote from the Class of 2010 reports at a local vegetable market while interning at Mizzima News Agency in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Some 75% of the class that graduated from the CUNY J-School in December 2009 are working in full-time, part-time, or regular freelance jobs in journalism. That’s about as good a record as you’ll find at any competing graduate journalism program. Here's '09 alum Maya Pope-Chappell at The Wall Street Journal in New York, where she is an assistant web producer.

Hot off the presses: Read the latest issue of the CUNY J-School newsletter, Inside Story.

Class of 2010 student Hannah Rappleye, who is doing her summer internship at the Mail & Guardian in South Africa, works at her desk in Johannesburg.

This is the facade of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism right off Times Square in New York City, one of the 10 reasons to choose CUNY.

Charlie Rose, winner of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, poses with Class of '09 honorees Aisha Al-Muslim, Collin Orcutt, Karina Ioffee, and Jenni Avins at the J-School's Third Annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism on May 10, 2010.