News
October 4, 2007
They left for the summer as students. They came back as professionals. The 50 students of the Class of '07 made their mark during paid summer internships at a variety of media outlets, including ABC News, Bloomberg Television, BusinessWeek.com, The Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press, the New York Daily News, ESPN The Magazine, NY1 News, the New York Times web video group, Reuters Television, WNYC Radio and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
September 18, 2007
Iranian blogger Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, who fled his country after facing charges that arose from his writings critical of fundamentalists and conservatives in the Iranian regime, is the first "International Journalist in Residence" at the new City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
September 18, 2007
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism today announced that it has received a $100,000, two-year grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in the school’s unique course in entrepreneurial journalism.
September 13, 2007
What do journalists need to know about covering urban health issues? That's the topic under the microscope at the Graduate School of Journalism's first urban health workshop that will be held on October 12 and 13.
September 2007
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is getting set to welcome its second class, come August—more than doubling the student body.
August 21, 2007
It was no ordinary August day. The temperature outside was 59 degrees, a record low for Aug. 21st – and the month, for that matter. Inside the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a new class of students arrived, eager to make a mark of their own in the city. The more than 50 students became the second class to enter the only publicly supported journalism school in the Northeast.
May 2007
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today that News Corporation has donated $500,000 to the school, payable over a five-year period.
May 2007
"Employers have shown great interest in hiring a CUNY J-School intern," said Ellen Walterscheid, the School's Director of Career Services. "They like the idea of a public graduate school for journalists, and know that our students are being trained on the latest equipment in a multimedia curriculum."
March 2007
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism today announced the creation of the Networked Journalism Project to assist the early efforts of professional and amateur journalists to work together. The Project is funded by a $175,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
March 2007
All 50 students at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will have paid internships at news organizations this summer, thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
March 2007
More than 1,200 books given to the Graduate School of Journalism by two veteran journalists form the core collection in the Research Center, a library located at the heart of the school and its mission.
February 2007
J-School going digital: As print demand shrinks, programs stress Web work.
February 2007
From Maine to California, bloggers and other online contributors are being hauled into court as lawsuits relating to online publishing mount. News organizations have lawyers to train and protect their staff journalists. But what can bloggers and other citizen contributors do to protect themselves against legal risk?
January 2007
In most graduate programs, January is a fallow time between semesters where students catch up on their sleep, and, if they’re lucky, spend a long weekend in a sunny clime.
In CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, January is for exploration.