News
J-School Contingent to Cover UNITY Conference in Chicago
Prof. Trudy Lieberman Hosts Webcasts for Health Journalists
J-School Receives $3 Million Grant for New Media Innovation
Dean Baquet Joins Advisory Board
Record Enrollment for Class of '09
Brokaw, Top Graduates Feted at J-School Gala
Renowned broadcast journalist and author Tom Brokaw received lifetime achievement honors at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's first Excellence in Journalism Awards – and returned the favor by offering young reporters words to live by in the Internet age. More »Prof. Sandeep Junnarkar Awarded Grant for Prisoner Families Project
A digital project to help families of prisoners interact with each other and the public has been selected as one of 10 winners of a $17,000 New Voices grant. More »J-School's Fulbright Scholar Wins $600,000 Knight News Challenge Grant
Alexander Zolotarev, the Fulbright Scholar from Moscow who has spent the past year at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism while working on his PhD dissertation, has just been named one of 19 winners of the 2008 Knight News Challenge. More »Degrees Now Backed By Ongoing Professional Education Commitment
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is making a new promise to its students. As the tools of journalism continue to evolve in the Internet age, they can return to the school throughout their careers to update their technical and professional skills. More »NYCity News Service Wins Award
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's NYCity News Service took first-place honors for Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication in the Society of Professional Journalists' Region 1 Mark of Excellence awards. More »Knight Foundation Gives CUNY J-School $250,000 for Summer Internship Program
The CUNY J-School requires a summer internship of each member of its diverse student body as part of its basic journalism curriculum. Because many news organizations don’t pay their interns, the Knight grant guarantees that every student will get up to $3,000 if they get an unpaid or low paying internship. More »CUNY Establishes New Emergency Notification System
The City University of New York (CUNY) has recently established a new emergency notification system, CUNY Alert, which enables the CUNY's campuses to inform students, faculty and staff of an emergency and provide timely information. More »Students Rack Up Summer '08 Internship Offers
Many of the School's 47 students will intern for the same media organizations as the first class did last summer—including ABC News, BusinessWeek, NY1 News, the New York Daily News, the New York Times online video department, and WNYC Radio. New partners include ProPublica, Telegraph.co.uk in London, The Associated Press in Chile, and Diario Libre in the Dominican Republic. More »New International Reporting Concentration Added to Curriculum
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will offer a new concentration in international reporting beginning in the Spring 2009 semester. This will be the fifth area of expertise students can choose to pursue at the school. The others are arts and culture, business and economics, health and medicine, and urban affairs. More »First Annual CUNY Awards for Excellence in Journalism to Honor Brokaw, Students
Renowned broadcast journalist and author Tom Brokaw will be honored along with three students from the pioneering Class of 2007 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's first Excellence in Journalism Awards gala on May 12. More »Five Students Awarded Time, Inc. Scholarships
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has awarded $10,000 scholarships to five students for their second and third semesters. The awards, made possible by a generous grant from Time Warner, Inc., are specifically intended for CUNY Journalism students. More »J-School Launches Media Law Web Site for Citizen Journalists
CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight Citizen News Network, has launched an interactive, multimedia Web site to provide training on legal rights and responsibilities related to news gathering and online publication. More »Student Team Hits New Hampshire
A group of CUNY J-School students descended on New Hampshire to cover the Jan. 8 primary, teaming with Off the Bus, a Huffington Post off-shoot, to produce multi-media pieces. More »J-School's First Class Graduates
New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Dean Baquet told members of the first graduating class of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism they would have an "absolute blast" as journalists if they apply humanity to their craft. More »
Time for Scholars
Time Warner, in a strong show of support for the CUNY J-School, is providing $100,000 in scholarship stipends to deserving and needy students over the next two years. Ten students will be designated Time Inc. Scholars, and receive $10,000 apiece to help defray second- and third-semester tuition and other expenses. More »
Using Journalism to Battle Obesity and Diabetes in the Bronx
The CUNY J-School has been awarded a two-year $50,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to build a new model of consumer health journalism that will focus on combating obesity and diabetes in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx. More »
Promising Grad Earns Duggan Award
Daniel Massey, a member of the J-School’s pioneering Class of '07, received the first annual award from the Dennis Duggan Memorial Scholarship Fund, established by the Society of the Silurians in honor of the beloved Newsday scribe. More »
Summer Internships a Success
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. More »
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Events
| Wednesday, July | 30 |
Info Session for New York Law Journal/American Lawyer Media
Kris Fischer, Editor in Chief of the New York Law Journal, will discuss internship and career opportunities at her publication and at other American Lawyer Media properties. For CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students. 6:30 p.m. at the third-floor Cafe.| Thursday, October | 2 |
Meet the Media Makers
For CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students: Come meet local news editors and producers and learn all about their content needs and internship and freelance opportunities. 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.| Friday, November | 14 |
