The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism welcomed its second class, in August–more than doubling the student body of the nation’s newest graduate journalism program.

Tanzina Vega scored a single-byline piece in the Times, profiling a cabbie with an only-in-New-York story. Danny Massey covered the opening of the controversial new Arab language/Middle Eastern Culture middle school in Brooklyn for the News Service – and got the story published in Newsday. In another story that originated in the News Service class, [...]

What do journalists need to know about covering urban health issues? That’s the topic under the microscope at the Graduate School of Journalism’s first urban health workshop that will be held on October 12 and 13.

Danny Massey added this week to his great, ongoing multi-media series about a badly injured soldier’s return to New Jersey. Check it out on the Star-Legder of Newark’s website. Georgia Kral stirred things up this summer in New Haven, where her strong local stories for the Independent drew many responses from readers — none more [...]

It was no ordinary August day.

The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today that News Corporation has donated $500,000 to the school, payable over a five-year period.

“Employers have shown great interest in hiring a CUNY J-School intern,” said Ellen Walterscheid, the School’s Director of Career Services. “They like the idea of a public graduate school for journalists, and know that our students are being trained on the latest equipment in a multimedia curriculum.”

NEW YORK (March 22, 2007) – The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism today announced the creation of the Networked Journalism Project to assist the early efforts of professional and amateur journalists to work together. The Project is funded by a $175,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

More than 1,200 books given to the Graduate School of Journalism by two veteran journalists form the core collection in the Research Center, a library located at the heart of the school and its mission.

All 50 students at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will have paid internships at news organizations this summer, with the assistance of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.