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 [...]

Greetings, Check out these end-of-semester reports: •The Class of 2012 teamed for a big multimedia vox pop for ToilTown, getting video and audio of scores of New Yorker talking about their holiday spending plans. •Tuan Nguyen produced a holiday video vox pop of his own for DNAInfo.com. Jesse Leon and Colin Weatherby teamed on a [...]

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 [...]

Greetings, I’m proud to report that our News Service and The Local were finalists in Editor & Publisher’s national EPPY Awards. Here is the latest batch of stories worthy of recognition: •Hannah Miet’s article about a New Orleans neighborhood’s ongoing battle to recover from Hurricane Katrina made the front page of the Times-Picayune. •Tristan Hallman’s [...]

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 [...]