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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]