Leonard Tow accepts the Distinguished Service to New York award at the CUNY J-School's 2012 awards gala on May 14. Among Tow's many philanthropic activities, he helped establish the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY. (Photo by John Smock)

Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler receives the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award, moments after he was introduced by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at the CUNY J-School's fifth annual awards gala on May 14. (Photo by John Smock)

Julie Snyder, senior producer for the public radio show "This American Life," comments on a story pitch by Rachel Sapin ('12) during a recent discussion of freelancing for radio. Also on the panel were CUNY J-School instructor Alex Goldmark, freelancer Monica Miller, and David Krasnow, senior editor of “Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.” (Photo by John Smock)

Lisa Armstrong, who teaches Craft of Journalism and International Reporting, learns to throw a jab from one of the U.S. women's Olympic boxing coaches. Lisa's on assignment for Essence, which is sending her to China for the Women's World Boxing Championships.

View the latest batch of videos from students in Bob Sacha's Video Storytelling for the Web class. This still is from "Gotham City Roller Wars" by Alex Robinson, '12.

2010 alumni Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville, whose story on immigrant detention was a lead piece in The Nation, spoke to Craft students about their investigative journalism. (Photo by Alistair Wallace)

Students test out panoramic photo equipment recently purchased with an Emerging Technology Fund set up to encourage experimentation with new media tools. (Photo by Nabil Rahman, Class of 2012)

Brianne Garcia, Adda Birnir, and Brian Reich are three of the 2012 Tow-Knight Fellows in Entrepreneurial Journalism. Learn more about our new master's degree and advanced certificate programs in Entrepreneurial Journalism .

Class of '09 alum Maya Pope-Chappell has been promoted to online news editor for The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong. She was previously an assistant web producer for The Journal's Greater New York section. (Photo by Dov Friedman)

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.