The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism honored two men for their accomplishments in the fields of journalism and philanthropy at the fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism gala at TheTimesCenter on May 14. Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism while Leonard Tow, a pioneer in the cable [...]

New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Lisa Armstrong, an award-winning reporter who has written for the Washington Post, National Geographic, and O, the Oprah Magazine, the recipient of its 2012 Reporting Award. Armstrong teaches Craft of Journalism and International Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The award supports a [...]

Two CUNY J-School graduates now working at DNAinfo.com and two at Dow Jones Newswires have won journalism awards in the New York Press Club’s 2012 competition. Damian Ghigliotty from the Class of ’08 and Joseph Walker, ’09, were part of the team at Dow Jones’s FINS career site that captured the prize for jobs coverage [...]

It takes more than good sources and writing chops to make it as a freelancer in radio. To pay the bills without a boss, you need strategy, time management skills, smart pitches, good contacts, and an eye for opportunity. In this video, two successful radio freelancers explain how they mix and match media, topics, and [...]

Documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen keeps piling up the awards for her latest project, “The New Black,” which examines attitudes in African American churches towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. She recently won a $10,000 Creative Promise Award from Tribeca All Access, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented groups. This honor comes on the [...]

2010 alum Almudena Toral has won the top prize in the Sports Multimedia category in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Web Photojournalism contest. Her piece for The New York Times website, Damian’s Ride, tells the story of Damian Lopez Alfonso, a world class cyclist who was severely disfigured and lost his forearms in [...]

Photojournalism instructor John Smock, a consultant for Small World News, is heading to Libya at the end of May to provide media training for local journalists in advance of the country’s June election. The election will put a national committee in place as a first step toward a new constitution and a general election. Smock [...]

Greetings, April brought us a shower of stories. Check out some of the latest news from our reporters: •Peter Moskowitz’s article about a woman’s very personal fight against budget cuts made The New York Times. •Anika Anand and Kenneth Christensen covered the Earth Fest celebration at St. Mary’s Park for the Mott Haven Herald. •Our [...]