A 2004 essay in The New Republic by Associate Professor Peter Beinart has been nominated as one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade, 2000-2009. The winners will be selected in the next week by faculty from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, together with a group of outside judges, [...]

Greg David’s weekly column for Crain’s New York Business has won a Best in Business Journalism Award for 2009 from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). The former longtime editor of Crain’s, David now directs the Business & Economics Reporting Program for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Crain’s submitted four of [...]

The Encyclopedia of Journalism, including the Key Documents volume edited and written by Prof. Glenn Lewis, has been awarded the distinguished 2010 Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention. Lewis, who teaches Feature Writing and Narrative Journalism at the CUNY J-School, is director of journalism at CUNY’s York College. The American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal, given annually by [...]

Former Crain’s New York Business Editor Greg David, who has taught business and urban journalism at the CUNY J-School for the past three years, has agreed to serve as director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program, effective January 1, 2010. He takes over from Prof. Sarah Bartlett, who will continue to head the Urban [...]

Prof. Lonnie Isabel’s podcast “The Reporter’s Notebook,” which is produced in the radio studio of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is now broadcast weekly on WHCR, 90.3 FM in Harlem and Upper Manhattan and at www.WHCR.org. The podcast features interviews with global personalities and news makers who operate and think on the edge. These [...]

Joanna Hernandez, who is part of the Craft of Journalism faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has been elected vice-president of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. She will be serving alongside newly elected president Barbara Ciara, chosen to complete the term vacated by Rafael Olmeda after he resigned as UNITY president this past [...]

In his new column for The Daily Beast web site, Associate Professor Peter Beinart slammed the Nobel Committee for awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama. (Hear Beinart interviewed about the Nobel Prize on NPR.) The weekly column by Beinart, who teaches national political reporting and opinion writing at the CUNY Graduate [...]

Jeff Jarvis, who is leading the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s efforts to find new sustainable business models for the media industry, is the subject of a profile on the NPR news show, “All Things Considered.” The piece refers to Jarvis, director of the J-School’s interactive journalism program, as one of the most ubiquitous digital [...]

Prof. Sarah Bartlett, director of urban and business journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, will participate in a panel addressing the recession’s impact on news organizations at the New York Press Club Foundation’s 2009 Journalism Conference. The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 26 from 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at New York [...]

A delegation from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is in Aspen, CO this week to lead a discussion on sustainable models for gathering and disseminating news. The J-School group, which includes Dean Stephen B. Shepard, Associate Dean Judith Watson, and Associate Professor Jeff Jarvis, head of the interactive media program, is taking a lead [...]