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 [...]

An alumni group from the New York School of Printing (NYSP) has made a $62,000 gift to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to support a paid media internship each summer for a deserving student. The money will be used to establish the Benjamin and Mildred Greenwald Journalism Internship Fund, named for the group’s beloved [...]

Class of 2012 student Natalia Osipova, who started her journalism career as a 14-year-old intern at a hyperlocal television station in Moscow, is the winner of the Foreign Press Association’s first place scholarship award of $10,000. Osipova wants eventually to produce multimedia international stories and to own an international media company. “I would like to [...]

Greetings, Here are some great stories to help kickoff the new semester. (Note: Work from Class of 2011 members who have completed their studies soon will be moving to our increasingly crowded Alumni Corner.) •Elbert Chu wrote about a principal in trouble for The New York Times’ SchoolBook blog. Hannah Miet’s follow-up story on the [...]

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

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 [...]

Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has written the cover story for this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on Judith Clark, a ’60s activist who took part in the notorious 1981 Brinks robbery that left two police officers and an armored-car guard dead. Titled Judith Clark’s Radical Transformation, [...]

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. [...]

The New York State Education Department has given the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism permission to offer the first Master of Arts in Entrepreneurial Journalism beginning in the fall of 2012. The new four-semester degree program will be offered in conjunction with the School’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism that was established a year ago [...]

After four months of learning how to develop an idea into a business plan, students from Prof. Jeff Jarvis’s Entrepreneurial Journalism class had 10 minutes to persuade a demanding jury of media professionals why their projects should receive seed funding. “Pitch Day never gets old,” said Jarvis, who started the innovative third-semester course five years [...]