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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]