By Jane Teeling Class of 2012 David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, told members of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Class of 2011 that their most important responsibility as journalists is to exert pressure on power. “If you are not involved with that along the way,” he said, “something is deeply wrong at [...]

First-semester students from the Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism classes have completed a project in which they interviewed some 270 New Yorkers about how the economy was affecting holiday spending. The project featured an extensive multimedia component with more than 80 video and audio clips, all gathered using smart phones. Have a look at the results: [...]

Indrani Sen, a journalist and CUNY J-School faculty member, will take over as editor of Voices of NY, an online publication that showcases the best work being done by the city’s community and ethnic media. Her appointment becomes effective Feb. 1, 2012. Sen has extensive experience as a reporter, editor, and journalism teacher. Early in [...]

Veteran journalist Gersh Kuntzman has been named the new collaborative editor of The Local, an innovative hyperlocal news site run by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in partnership with The New York Times. Kuntzman, editor-in-chief of The Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn Courier, will succeed J-School alum and Brooklyn Based Senior Editor Annaliese Griffin, who [...]

From Safety of New York, Reporting on Distant Home By BRENDAN SPIEGEL Published: November 19, 2011 in The New York Times WHEN news breaks in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore is there. His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born “underwear bomber” arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s NYCity News Service and The Local, the J-School’s online news collaboration with The New York Times, were finalists in Editor & Publisher’s annual EPPY Awards competition. The NYCity News Service was cited in the Best College University Journalism Website category, which was won by Central Michigan University’s Grand Central [...]

Join the New York Press Club for a panel discussion Nov. 14 of issues related to the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon including the response so far by the New York City government and police, the monopolization of a privately owned public space, and the impact of the OWS siege on neighborhood businesses and residents.

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 [...]

Professor Jeff Jarvis talks with John Paton, (CEO of Journal Register, MediaNews, and Digital First Media) and Justin Smith (president of Atlantic Media), two executives who are building Digital First futures for their print companies. The discussion drills down to the specifics of how they are executing their strategies: covering content, revenue, costs, staffing, and [...]