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About
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The Master of Arts in Journalism degree at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is an intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.Learn More →
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The course of study for the M.A. in Journalism degree is challenging and requires full-time attendance. Students complete 45 units of course work in three semesters, participate in a comprehensive summer internship, and produce a substantial final or capstone project.Learn More →
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Our goal is to attract a diverse group of the highest caliber aspiring journalists to our Master of Arts in Journalism program, then to guide and support them every step of the way, from application through graduation and beyond.Learn More →
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The Career Services Office will work with you from the beginning of your time here to the day of graduation -- and beyond. (We’re available to help alums, too.) Among other things, we review resumes, weigh in on cover letters, brainstorm with you about internship and employment choices...Learn More →
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Research Center
Research Center
The CUNY J-School Research Center is dedicated to providing students and faculty with the latest research training, tools and resources for journalists.Learn More →
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Source: Source: Feds Approve State Sandy Recovery Plan; City Plan Awaits Approval, Gotham Gazette, April 26, 2013
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Your research quiz is here. You have 20 minutes. It is open-note.
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Today, we’re going to discuss some web-based tools that are available to you for researching business. Then I want to discuss any challenges you’re having with our final project. For public companies and private companies, there are wide differences in what information is publicly available. Publicly-traded companies are required by law to file information with [...]
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Last week’s marathon bombings offer some lessons on how not to cover breaking news. Some of the missteps last week reminded me how CNN Headline News almost reported (falsely) that George H.W. Bush had died in January 1992 during a trip to Japan . Eager producers wanted to rush a story onto the air; the announcement was [...]
Charles Wilson wrote a new blog post: Some lessons from last week’s marathon bombing coverage 1 month ago · View
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Ivan, the Shaman Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Freak by Dominik Wurnig https://vimeo.com/63711300 In Palisades, NY, lives Ivan Szendrö, a modern day shaman who reveals “your legend” for $75. Knowing your legend, and subsequently your hero, heals you and helps you solve your problems. He is convinced that his message is worth a bigger audience.
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Kiss it Goodbye: Lady Pink Paints New York City – By Jane Teeling https://vimeo.com/52989678 Ecuadorian transplant, Queens resident, professional artist and former graffiti artist Lady Pink cut her teeth painting New York City subway trains in the 1970s. At that time, she was one of the only ladies in the graffiti scene. Today her work [...]
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We’re going to begin today with a short exercise using Open Secrets, an excellent resource created by the Center for Responsive Politics. You can access the exercise here . I’ll give you 4 minutes. We’ll then discuss briefly how a search like this could be useful, looking briefly at this series about presidential pardons from the non-profit newsroom, [...]
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The CUNY J-School Research Center is closing at 5:30 on Monday, April 8th.
We will resume our regular hours tomorrow, which on Tuesdays are 10am-8pm.
Barbara Gray
Interim Chief Librarian
Barbara Gray wrote a new blog post: Research Center Closing at 5:30pm on Monday April 8. 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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Today’s lesson will provide you an introduction to fact-checking your work. Nothing will be more important to your career as a journalist than your credibility. The time you devote to verifying your work prior to publication can save you from unnecessary embarrassment and grief . You have five minutes to complete the following drill. You may use the [...]
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The Research Center is closing at 5pm on Monday March 11th, so stop by before 5 if you need research help.
Barbara Gray wrote a new blog post: Research Center Closing at 5pm Monday March 11th 2 months, 1 week ago · View
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First, we’re going to start off with a brief exercise to practice our skills in Census fact-finding. A link to the American FactFinder is here . In today’s lesson, we are going to discuss how to do advance background research on people you are covering (or even editing). It is not enough to trust what a person tells [...]
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We are going to start today’s lesson by doing a quick Nexis exercise , to refresh ourselves from last lesson. This exercise is “open book”; you can refer to my lecture notes . You can access Nexis through the CUNY Library Resources page here (you should have this page bookmarked if you don’t already). I will give you about 5 [...]
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The Research Center is closing early today, due to Winter Storm Nemo.
We hope to be open again tomorrow at 1pm. Please check back here for details.
Barb Gray
Barbara Gray wrote a new blog post: Research Center closing at 4pm on Friday February 8 3 months, 1 week ago · View
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Why should I care about a backpack? Marketing people are using emotional storytelling to sell their products. Why? Because it works! Here are two online videos from LL Bean: This one uses a lot of still photos. It also has a journey in a non narrated interview. http://youtu.be/ct3xv2brh8k This one also uses still photos [...]
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If you run into trouble finding Census info, call a Census topic expert. Here’s the contact list . When you call, tell them you need some help finding data on your story and would like some help finding it on American Factfinder . The topic expert will help you navigate through the site to locate the specific data you [...]
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Be careful using $$ amounts for income or rent value from past Census and ACS data. From Infoshare: How do I convert dollar values from earlier Census data to current values? The Census asks respondents to report their income for the previous calendar year (e.g., for 2009 in the 2010 survey). The inflation factor to convert earlier to [...]
Barbara Gray wrote a new blog post: Making sure Census data in $$ is adjusted for inflation 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Are you patient enough to get to the end? Why or Why Not?btw, one of the exercises is a story without an interview. This would be an A+
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