In a special appearance at the CUNY J-School on Apr. 12, legendary New York City reporter Jimmy Breslin reminisced about his long career. Investigative journalist in residence Tom Robbins moderated. One of Jimmy Breslin’s rules for finding a good story is “go to the loser ahead of the winner.” Here’s the rest of the evening [...]

On March 17th, Adam Davidson, founder of NPR’s Planet Money, participated in a discussion with the J-School’s Matt McAllester and Prue Clark. The theme of the talk was that journalists must understand business and economics to intelligently report their subjects. Here are a few selected tweets: #bbpBox_48499765566119936 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0000ff; }#bbpBox_48499765566119936 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; [...]

Edward I. Koch reflected on his three terms as New York City mayor from 1978 to 1989 and the political legacy that influences the city’s politics to this day at a New York Press Club event held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on January 19, 2011. In a far-reaching discussion, Koch also commented [...]

One month before leaving office on January 1, 2011, David Paterson talks about his 34-month term as governor of New York State at a New York Press Club forum at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

In a New York Press Club event at the CUNY J-School on Nov. 4, media critic Ken Auletta spoke about Google, the rise of technology companies, and the current state of newspapers.

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 [...]

Join us and Neal Cortell, veteran financial television journalist, for a preview of his political-news documentary, “The Media” on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The film, still in progress, examines the corporate control over news and the uncertain future of journalism on the Internet. The documentary is narrated by Dr. Bill Baker, president emeritus of New York [...]