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Prof. Lonnie Isabel's Podcast Hits the New York City Airwaves

By Amy Dunkin | November 24, 2009 | Faculty News, J-School in the News, News

Prof. Lonnie Isabel’s podcast “The Reporter’s Notebook,” which is produced in the radio studio of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is now broadcast weekly on WHCR, 90.3 FM in Harlem and Upper Manhattan and at www.WHCR.org. The podcast features interviews with global personalities and news makers who operate and think on the edge. These [...]

Studs Terkel's FBI File, Obama Oil and the Bernie Madoff Auction

By Collin Orcutt | November 22, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News

Here are some stories guaranteed to make good weekend reading and viewing: Valerie Lapinski’s exclusive about the contents of Studs Terkel’s FBI file, posted on the News Service, went viral – The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post and scores of other news sites and [...]

The Yankees Parade, Murdoch v. Google and a New Use for a Facebook Status

By Collin Orcutt | November 22, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News

The stories are piling up faster than autumn leaves – it’s getting hard for me to keep up. Here are some of the latest efforts: Damiano Beltrami’s story about a teenager cleared of a robbery thanks to a Facebook status alibi hit The New York Times trifecta: The front page of the New York section, [...]

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Spring Semester Classes Begin

By Amy Dunkin | November 18, 2009 | Events

Poll

By Consuella Askew | November 18, 2009 | Research Center Polls

Did you know you can check out DVDs (in the general collection) overnight?(survey)

January Academy Begins

By Amy Dunkin | November 17, 2009 | Events

The January Academy is a series of enrichment workshops open to CUNY J-School students, alumni, applicants, and select CUNY undergraduates.

Class of 2009 Graduation

By Amy Dunkin | November 17, 2009 | Events

Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, will be the keynote speaker at the Class of 2009’s graduation ceremony on December 16. Launched in May 2005, the HuffPost has become an influential media web site covering politics, business, technology, entertainment, and the green movement. It is also a platform for thousands of bloggers [...]

The NYC Marathon, Handwriting Training and a Sci-Fi Rock Band

By Collin Orcutt | November 11, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News

Things got off to a running start with the Marathon, and haven’t stopped: Almudena Toral’s story about a marathoner from Spain made the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta. Talk about a relay race: Carla Candia, Michael Cohen, Juan DeJesus, Musikilu Mojeed, Walter Smith-Randolph, Rochana Rapkins, Jordan Shakeshaft, Andrea Swalec and Margaret Teich contributed vignettes and/or pictures [...]

Child Fruit Pickers, Gubernatorial Races and Pink-Slip Parties

By Collin Orcutt | November 5, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News

Hope everybody enjoyed the weekend’s extra hour. Here are some of our latest examples of time well spent: The reporters in our Interactive Fundamentals sections fanned out around the city, Flip Video cameras in hand, and asked dozens of New Yorkers: “Tell us one way the recession has changed your life.” The results of the [...]