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 [...]

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 [...]

Sonali Samarasinghe, who spent last year at the CUNY J-School as its fourth international journalist in residence, has been honored by Images and Voices of Hope, a non-profit group that advances a global dialogue on the media as an agent of change. Samarasinghe, a Sri Lankan investigative reporter and editor, received the organization’s Award of [...]

Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with two other women on Oct. 7, is an adviser to a media project founded and directed by Visiting Associate Professor Prue Clarke. Clarke, who teaches international reporting at the CUNY J-School, has worked closely with Gbowee on New Narratives, [...]

Daniel Massey, a 2007 alumnus who covers labor for Crain’s New York Business, and Juan Manuel Benítez, a NY1 Noticias political reporter who teaches Broadcast News Writing & Production, have been named to the list of 40 rising stars under 40 by City Hall News. The annual compilation recognizes up-and-comers in government, politics, non-profits, and [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has launched Voices of NY, a redesigned and renamed website to showcase great work being done by local and multicultural publications around the city and by our students. The Voices of NY platform is the new face of Voices That Must Be Heard, the award-winning online publication that features [...]

David Remnick, longtime editor of The New Yorker, will address graduates at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s 2011 commencement on Dec. 14. The ceremony will take place at TheTimesCenter auditorium adjacent to the J-School on West 41st Street in Manhattan. Remnick began his reporting career at The Washington Post in 1982 and became a [...]