Eduardo Acquarone, EJ ’15, started a PhD program in Communication Sciences at the ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon, Portugal, where he’ll investigate the effects of immersive journalism.

Alissa Ambrose, ’11, was promoted in September from senior photo editor to deputy director of multimedia and creative at STAT.

Jessica Bal, ’15, started working with Susan Meiselas, a documentary photographer with Magnum Photos, managing her digital archive of 40+ years’ work.

After interning at Tech Insider/Business Insider for six months, Prachi Bhardwaj, ’17, joined City and State New York as its first technology reporter.

Rebecca Bratek, ’14, was hired as a senior editor at Factal, a new journalism-tech startup that verifies and digests breaking news for companies.

Kathryn Casteel, ’16, joined Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative reporter.

Megan Cerullo, ’16, is leaving the New York Daily News to work at CBS MoneyWatch, where she’ll be a writer and video editor.

After more than a decade as a multiplatform journalist, Kim Choe, EJ ’15, moved into product management at Newshub, one of New Zealand’s largest news outlets.

Malik Edwards, ’17, started a job as a videographer at his alma mater Morgan State University.

Kellie Ell, ’17, is working as a finance reporter covering the business of fashion at Women’s Wear Daily in New York City.

After leaving INSIDER, Joanna Fantozzi, ’12, joined Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality as an assistant editor.

In October, Pamela Granda, ’14,  left the Fox Business Network to join Yahoo Finance as an associate producer.

Anthony Kane, ’15, was hired as a video producer at Oath’s Yahoo News.

After more than four years at Business Insider, Kevin Loria, ’12, is now a health reporter for Consumer Reports.

Doha Madani, ’16, left HuffPost to work as a breaking news reporter for NBC News in New York City.

After overseeing storytelling for The New York Times’ Instagram page for 3.5 years, Kerri MacDonald, ’10, moved to Instagram, where she is working as a design researcher and producer.

Colum Murphy, EJ ’18, moved to Shanghai where he is working as managing editor at TechNode, a publication focused on telling China’s tech story to the world.

Sophia Rosenbaum, ’13, was hired as a news editor at the Associated Press, where she’ll cover all states from Ohio up to Maine. She was previously a senior news editor at TIME.

In September Geneva Sands, ’09, joined CNN’s Washington bureau as its newest justice producer.

Danni Santana, ’15, was hired by Skift, where he’ll cover the restaurant business. He was previously an associate editor at Digital Insurance.

Roxanne Scott, ’14, is now a reporter at WABE News, the NPR station in Atlanta.

Walter Smith-Randolph, ’10,  joined LOCAL 12, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati as a reporter, where he’ll be working on stories for the station’s 11 p.m. newscasts and investigative unit.

2017 alumnae Nour Saudi and Joy Notoma launched The Shunned Project, a website that documents the stories of former Jehovah’s Witnesses who have been shunned by the organization.

Derek Scancarelli, ’15, is contributing to Forbes and has interviewed celebrities including Yoko Ono, Sting, and Alice Cooper.

Roxanne L. Scott, ’14, was hired as a reporter at WABE News, the NPR station in Atlanta.

Formerly a public defender in Queens, Margaret Teich, ’10, is now a criminal defense attorney in Asheville, North Carolina.

Taylor Tepper, ’12, was hired as a senior writer at Wirecutter.

After working as a freelance associate producer for Al Jazeera English’s web show “The Stream,” Lisa Thomson, ’16, was promoted to a staff position as assistant producer.

Teresa Tomassoni, ’10, was hired by the U.S. State Department to train journalists in Ethiopia and Malawi during December on how to cover gender-based violence and human trafficking.

Matt Townsend, ’08, expanded his reporting duties at Bloomberg News to cover the intersection of corporate America and the White House.

CNET en Español technology reporter Claudia Cruz, ’08, has been busy this year attending multiple technology panels at various events. In the past month, she was part of the following:

-Embracing Intersectionality in Tech (at the Latinx in Tech conference)

-Election night coverage (local community access channel KMVT)

-The Future of AI (Latinas in Tech Summit 2018)

When she participates in these events as a speaker, she says she likes to demonstrate by her words and actions that good journalists do their research, prepare for their interviews with sources, are fair, and seek to find the truth. She most enjoys staying updated on the forefront of technology advances. “I’m very fortunate to interview sources and attend events where the topic is, for the most part, the future, and not the past,” Cruz says.

Jessica Bal, ’15, was selected to attend the 2018 Double Exposure Film Festival in October as a Fledgling Fund Fellow, an opportunity for journalists focused on reproductive rights reporting.

Alexandra Boothe, ’17, received the awards for “Best Editor” and “Student Choice Award ” at the CUNY Film Festival for her short documentary “Mixed Feelings.”

2016 alums Joaquin Cotler and Michael O’Brien are wrapping up a radio documentary about the tech industry’s incursion into Puerto Rico’s post-Maria recovery for a new and unnamed podcast that will be produced by Futuro Media.

Kizzy Cox, ’12, (far left in photo above) moderated the Empowering Women in Media panel organized by the non-profit Positive Women United on October 19. The diverse group of panelists included (left to right) Simone Swink, executive broadcast producer of Good Morning America; Angela Ellis, former content producer and programming executive for Good Morning America; and Klenimber Torres, filmmaker and CEO of Cosmos Entertainment.

Dale W. Eisinger, ’10, received a grant from the Institute for Policy Studies’ Economic Hardship Reporting Project for a story he is working on about the application of forensic anthropology to the migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Lori Freshwater, ’16, published her capstone, What Happened at Camp Lejeune, in Pacific Standard.

Rebecca Harris, ’14, is featured in 2019’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Media list for her project, Purple.

Patrick Hickey Jr., ’11, was elected chairman of the CUNY Journalism Discipline Council, where CUNY undergraduate journalism faculty and directors share ideas with representatives from our grad school.

City and State New York added Joe Hirsch, ’07, editor of The Hunts Point Express and Mott Haven Herald, to The 2018 Bronx Power 50, its annual list of the most influential people in the city’s northernmost borough.

Mariana Keller, ’10, and her NBC News Digital team won an Emmy award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine for Battling Dementia: A Mother and Son’s Incredible Journey.

Barbara Marcolini, ’17, and her New York Times team won an Emmy award for their Las Vegas coverage in the “New Approaches: Current News” category.

Transit writer Angely Mercado, ’16, was interviewed by Emma Whitford from New York Magazine’s Intelligencer column about the L train shutdown, where her perspective was captured in a cartoon form. 

“Three Rivers Rising” by PublicSource‘s environment and health reporter, Oliver Morrison’s, ’14, was named a finalist in the “Explanatory Reporting” category by the Online News Association.

Jeanne Pinder, EJ ’10, is a TED resident this fall.

Ramnath Subbaranan, EJ’14, co-wrote The Aadhaar Effect, a journalistic account of India’s digital identity project.

Pauliina Siniauer, ’17, is a finalist for The Food Sustainability Media Award 2018. You can vote for her story, “A trashcan lady is now feeding the neighborhood,” in the “Written Journalism and Unpublished” and “Best of the Web” categories.

Caroline Shin, ’16, expanded her project, Cooking with Granny™, into a video and event series, where diverse immigrant grandmothers cook family recipes and tell cultural stories.

Almudena Toral, ’10, head of feature video at Univision News Digital,  won an Emmy in the “Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish” category for Fear in Trump Territory – This is the U.S. City with the Highest Proportion of Undocumented Immigrants.

 Matt Townsend, ’08, was recognized by 2018’s Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards. 

Linda Villarosa, ’13, New York Times Magazine contributing writer and City College of New York assistant professor of journalism, is working on her book, Under the Skin: Race, Inequality, and Health of a Nation, which will be published by Doubleday in 2020. She was also awarded a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

María Villaseñor, ’14,  produced a piece for Retro Report about the future of water. 

Nine Newmark J-School pieces were nominated for the 2018’s EPPY Awards.  NYCity News Service won its third straight Editor & Publisher EPPY Award for the best site of its kind in the country.

In October, Jere Hester, director of Reporting and Writing, News Products and Projects, and the NYCity News Service, left the Newmark J-School  to become the founding editor of The City, a new, nonprofit news outlet that will produce in-depth coverage of New York City. 

Jeanette Tavarez joined the admissions team as associate director of admissions. She previously worked in the admissions office at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Spanish-language Program Director Graciela Mochkofsky received a Maria Moors Cabot Prize on October 10.