The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism 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 obsesity and diabetes in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx.

Spearheaded by Trudy Lieberman, the journalism school's director of health/medicine reporting, the program will use blogs, wikis and slide shows to reach children in Hunts Point who are obese and likely to become diabetic. Students working on the online project will also produce an in-depth report investigating the issues surrounding diabetes in the South Bronx and the information needs of the community. Read More »