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 [...]

The start of the fall semester will mark two major achievements for Prof. Glenn Lewis, director of journalism at CUNY’s York College and a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. On Sept. 12, the new Encyclopedia of Journalism, which includes the Key Documents volume Lewis edited and wrote, is due out from [...]

Lens, a daily photojournalism blog launched by The New York Times on May 18, was conceived by senior staff photographer James Estrin, a multimedia coach at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, with the help of two of his students. Kristen Joy Watts and Nicholas Loomis from the Class of 2009 have been assisting on [...]