The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s NYCity News Service and The Local, the J-School’s online news collaboration with The New York Times, were finalists in Editor & Publisher’s annual EPPY Awards competition.

The NYCity News Service was cited in the Best College University Journalism Website category, which was won by Central Michigan University’s Grand Central Magazine.

The Local was a finalist in the Best Crowd Sourcing or Citizen Journalism category for sites with under 250,000 unique monthly visitors. Bakersfield.com‘s Capture Kern County project took the top prize in that category.

The NYCity News Service feeds student-generated, professionally edited content to various news organizations, including The New York Times, the New York Daily News, The Huffington Post, and DNAInfo.com, among many other media outlets of various types and sizes.

The Local, which serves Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, is a re-imagined neighborhood news outlet whose mission is to give the community the tools, training and platform to report on itself. J-School students are charged with producing stories in multiple media, as well as working with community contributors.

The site, which is part of nytimes.com, is run day-to-day by J-School professors and students, in consultation with The Times.

The winners of the 16th annual EPPY Awards were announced on editorandpublisher.com Nov. 30.

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