Two CUNY J-School graduates now working at DNAinfo.com and two at Dow Jones Newswires have won journalism awards in the New York Press Club’s 2012 competition.
Damian Ghigliotty from the Class of ’08 and Joseph Walker, ’09, were part of the team at Dow Jones’s FINS career site that captured the prize for jobs coverage in the Internet Consumer Reporting category.
A picture taken by Ben Fractenberg, ’09, for DNAinfo.com was voted the best Internet Feature Photo. It showed a vigil held for 16-year-old Tysha Jones, who was killed in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
The Internet Spot News award went to Andrea Swalec, ’10, and her colleagues from DNAinfo.com for their coverage of Hurricane Irene in August 2011.
More than 400 entries in over 20 categories of reporting were submitted by New York area news organizations and individual journalists for the NYPC’s 2012 contest.