Business concentration student Vincent Trivett has won a $3,000 scholarship from the New York Financial Writers Association. The organization awarded 10 scholarships to New York area students interested in careers in business and financial journalism. The other winners were students at Columbia and NYU.   Trivett, who has just completed his second semester at the [...]

UNITY: Journalists of Color has awarded Amy Stretten, a student in the International Reporting Program of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a 2011 Global Reporting Fellowship to cover the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York from June 6-11. The conference will bring together world leaders to discuss the global response to [...]

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism interactive students are teaming up with the NYCity News Service to provide live coverage of nearly a dozen events around New York City this weekend. Using mobile technology that’s increasingly part of the School’s classroom curriculum, the student teams will liveblog, tweet, post photos, and stream live audio and video [...]

Few people would choose to watch a slide show about brain surgery while eating their lunch, but perhaps that’s what distinguishes health journalists from the rest of humanity. Eight students in the CUNY J-School’s Health & Science Reporting Program traveled to Philadelphia on April 16 with Prof. Emily Laber-Warren to attend the annual meeting of [...]

The first videos from students in the new Video Storytelling for the Web class are up and running. The course, taught for the first time this semester by multimedia journalist Bob Sacha, focuses on non-narrated, character-driven visual narratives. In other words, “there is no reporter with a microphone,” Sacha said. Sacha said he was very [...]

Class of 2010 alumni captured two first-place and one second-place SPJ Region 1 Mark of Excellence awards today for work they did while students on the NYCity News Service and The Local hyperlocal news site the CUNY J-School produces in collaboration with The New York Times. “Big Goals For Sled Hockey Team,” a video by [...]

For the fourth time, a student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has been selected for a summer internship sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York at the award-winning Brian Ross investigative unit of ABC News. Selly Thiam, a Class of 2011 student in the International Reporting program, is one of just four [...]

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism alumni have captured two of four 2011 media awards from the Council on Contemporary Families for “outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues.” 2009 graduate Jacqueline Linge won for her photo and video essay on same-sex bi-national couples who face separation because federal immigration law [...]

Students from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s fourth graduating class stood at attention on December 15 as Dean Stephen B. Shepard conferred upon them the degree of Master of Arts in Journalism. The packed auditorium at TheTimesCenter on W. 41st Street erupted in cheers and applause as the beaming Class of 2010 filed out [...]