In the fashion equivalent of the locavore food movement, Class of ’09 alum Jenni Avins made her own fur vest in New York from the pelts of foxes trapped in the wilds of nearby Pennsylvania. She even skinned one of the critters in the process. Then she wrote about the experience for the cultural website, [...]

Class of ’11 alum Carmel Delshad is in Cairo working on 18 Days in Egypt, a crowd-sourced web documentary chronicling the Egyptian revolution that began in 2011. Created by Jigar Mehta and Yasmin Elayat, the project aims to to discover the stories that have yet to be told through traditional media. There are thousands of [...]

Recent graduate Matthew Draper (’11) has been selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the American Copy Editors Society’s ACES Education Fund. The prize is one of five awarded annually to undergraduate or grad students who have demonstrated an interest in and aptitude for copy editing. It includes free registration and travel expenses to the [...]

Sophia Tewa’s documentary, The People the Rain Forgot, about how climate change and drought have ravaged Kenya, was named Best Documentary Feature at the Winter 2012 Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. Tewa, a native of France, is a 2009 alumna of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a graduate of CUNY’s Lehman College. [...]

Musikilu Mojeed, an investigative reporter from Nigeria who graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in 2010, has won the Editor’s Courage Award for a series of stories that documented efforts by Nigerian government officials to enrich themselves at the expense of the country’s oil industry. Mojeed received the prize from the Forum for [...]

Class of 2009 graduate Rima Abdelkader worked on two stories that will air on the first show of NBC’s new news magazine, “Rock Center with Brian Williams.” The show premieres Oct. 31 at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Abdelkader, an assistant producer for the program, contributed to two of the pieces airing the first night: [...]

A Chicago political blog edited by 2007 graduate Andrew Greiner has captured a top prize for Online Topical Reporting/Blogging from the Online News Association at its 2011 awards banquet in Boston. Ward Room, conceived by the editorial team at NBCChicago.com in early 2010, follows nine political heavyweights in the Windy City, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, [...]

Daniel Massey, a 2007 alumnus who covers labor for Crain’s New York Business, and Juan Manuel Benítez, a NY1 Noticias political reporter who teaches Broadcast News Writing & Production, have been named to the list of 40 rising stars under 40 by City Hall News. The annual compilation recognizes up-and-comers in government, politics, non-profits, and [...]

Walter Smith-Randolph (Class of 2010)General Assignment Reporter, WENY-TV Brigid Bergin (Class of 2007)Producer, WNYC New York Public Radio Tanzina Vega (Class of 2007)Reporter and Producer, The New York Times Nicole Turso (Class of 2009)Writer, NY1 News

Aisha Al-Muslim’s enterprise story about noise caused by low-flying airplanes landing on a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport made the front page of Newsday on July 20. (Airplane_Noise_page_1) This was the first lead story at the Long Island newspaper for Al-Muslim, who is covering the Town of Hempstead as part of a two-year [...]