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 [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is rolling out a new curriculum in the Spring 2011 semester for students who want to specialize in health journalism. The Health & Science Reporting Program will take students through the process of finding and reporting on health and medical news. The goal is to produce reporters who can [...]

New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley came to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Oct. 1 to pressure his colleagues at the Fed to act aggressively to revive the economic recovery, and students from the School’s business concentration were there to report the news. Dudley was the keynote speaker at the fall conference [...]

This year’s International Journalist in Residence is Sonali Samarasinghe, an award winning investigative reporter from Sri Lanka.  Samarasinghe has been a leading fighter for justice and government in her country for more than a decade. Samarsinghe fled her country shortly after her husband, journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, was assassinated in early 2009.  Samarasinghe received numerous threats [...]