Looks like that extra hour was put to good use this week: •How’s this for J-School teamwork: Kerri MacDonald and Nadia Sussman shared the byline on this New York Times story about local Guineans casting votes in their home country’s elections. Kerri and Nadia also combined efforts on a related video. Khristina Narizhnaya contributed to [...]

In a New York Press Club event at the CUNY J-School on Nov. 4, media critic Ken Auletta spoke about Google, the rise of technology companies, and the current state of newspapers.

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The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is rolling out a new curriculum in the Spring 2011 semester for students who want to specialize in health journalism. The Health & Science Reporting Program will take students through the process of finding and reporting on health and medical news. The goal is to produce reporters who can [...]

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Greetings, A new month brings new links. Check them out below. Our News Service has been particularly busy: •Members of Prof. Mifflin’s class teamed to look at some of the winners of a YouTube-Guggenheim digital art contest. Lauryn Barnett, Megan Finnegan, Jessica Dailey, Krissy Dolor, Vineeth Thomas and Jordan Shakeshaft contributed to the coverage. •Speaking [...]

Sat. Oct. 23, 2010 — In its first community service project, the CUNY J-School’s Alumni Association helped beautify Brooklyn’s P.S. 178 by painting murals, doors, windows, and interior walls, and planting bulbs. The 15-member team – including four students from the current classes and two from the faculty – had a fun (and messy) time! [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will establish a training program for journalists working in New York City’s ethnic and community press, funded by a $150,000 grant from The Ford Foundation. The CUNY J-School will supplement the funding for the two-year program through in-kind contributions of staff and technology. “New York City’s 350-plus ethnic and [...]

Joanna Hernandez, who teaches Craft of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, was voted president of UNITY: Journalists of Color. Hernandez, a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post who had been serving as vice-president of UNITY, was chosen for the top job on Oct. 24 over incumbent Barbara Ciara. Her term as president [...]