The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has begun a trial run of five new courses in entrepreneurial journalism as part of its efforts to find ways to help sustain the future of the news industry. The School opened the courses to 11 students, alumni, and mid-career professionals who want to become involved in the developing [...]

Students from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s fourth graduating class stood at attention on December 15 as Dean Stephen B. Shepard conferred upon them the degree of Master of Arts in Journalism. The packed auditorium at TheTimesCenter on W. 41st Street erupted in cheers and applause as the beaming Class of 2010 filed out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Barbara Gray, director of news research for The New York Times, will join the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism faculty starting Monday, October 18. She will oversee the School’s Research Center and will coordinate instruction in research methods at all levels of the curriculum. Her title will be Distinguished Lecturer and Interim Chief Librarian. Gray [...]

Professor Sarah Bartlett, director of the Urban Reporting Program, and Baruch College Professor Douglas Muzzio, who teaches Covering City Government and Politics in the urban concentration, interviewed New York’s Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch on Oct. 12 about the state’s fiscal problems, Medicaid, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and other topics. The show will be aired in [...]

Professor Roslyn Bernstein, who teaches Feature Writing at the CUNY J-School, has come out with a new book, “Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of Soho.” Co-authored with Shael Shapiro, “Illegal Living” is the story of the building at 80 Wooster Street and the people who lived and worked there. The first of [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded two $3 million grants to help it establish the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and the nation’s first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism.

Faculty members of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism did a lot more than lie on the beach reading pulp fiction this past summer. Many of them were engaged in significant journalistic work. Here’s a roundup of their projects, travels, awards, and grants over the past few months.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will be offering a new four-semester entrepreneurial journalism track under the direction of Jeff Jarvis, head of the Interactive Journalism Program. Here’s what Dean Stephen B. Shepard had to say about it in his latest Dean’s Corner column: It’s Time to Take the Next Big Step In the four [...]