Category: Student News

Natalia Osipova (’12) Notches First Place in Foreign Press Association Scholarship Competition

By Amy Dunkin | February 7, 2012 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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 [...]

Entrepreneurial Student Ventures Receive $30,000 in Funding

By Amy Dunkin | December 15, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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 [...]

CUNY Journalism School Gives a Rousing Send-Off to its Fifth Class of Graduates

By Amy Dunkin | December 14, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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 [...]

Interactive I Students Produce Multimedia Report on New Yorkers’ Holiday Spending Plans

By Amy Dunkin | December 13, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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: [...]

Amy Kraft (’11) Wins Fellowship for Science Writers

By Amy Dunkin | September 19, 2011 | Featured News, News, Student News

Amy Kraft, a third-semester student in the Health & Science Reporting Program, has won a fellowship to cover travel and registration costs for the annual meeting of science writers in Flagstaff, Ariz. Oct. 14-18. She is one of 10 graduate journalism students from across the country to receive this award. The conference provides a mix [...]

J-School Launches Voices of NY Site

By Amy Dunkin | September 8, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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 [...]

New Yorker Editor David Remnick to Speak at the 2011 Commencement Ceremony in December

By Amy Dunkin | September 2, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

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 [...]

Carmel Delshad photographs street art from the Egyptian revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. She is interning for NPR in Cairo this summer.

Interning Around the Globe — and Around the Block

The Class of 2011 has hit the ground running (and blogging) at summer internships that are more far-flung, and more varied, than ever. Seventeen of the 87 students are interning abroad in 12 countries — including Canada, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Liberia, and Singapore. Among the internship partners overseas: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Winnipeg, [...]

CUNY Journalism School Acquires Community and Ethnic News Site and Awards Program

By Amy Dunkin | June 2, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

(NEW YORK, June 1, 2011) The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is pleased to announce two major steps toward the development of a Center for Community and Ethnic Media. First, the School is acquiring Voices That Must Be Heard, a weekly online publication that aggregates work from New York City’s ethnic and community press. The [...]

Craft and Interactive Students Collaborate on Multimedia Census 2010 Project

By Amy Dunkin | May 24, 2011 | Featured News, J-School in the News, News, Student News

Students from Craft of Journalism II, Craft II for Broadcast, and Interactive II classes teamed up this semester for a series of multimedia story packages built around 2010 U.S. Census data. The project, Changing New York: Census 2010, went live this week on the CUNY J-School’s NYCity News Service website. The stories are divided into [...]