Iranian blogger Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, who fled his country after facing charges that arose from his writings critical of fundamentalists and conservatives in the Iranian regime, is the first “International Journalist in Residence” at the new City University of New York…
Georgia Kral notched a co-byline in this New York Times story about the primary election victory of the under-investigation mayor of Hartford. Mathew Warren shared a byline in this Times story about the evacuation of a troubled West Harlem building.…
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism welcomed its second class, in August–more than doubling the student body of the nation’s newest graduate journalism program.
Tanzina Vega scored a single-byline piece in the Times, profiling a cabbie with an only-in-New-York story. Danny Massey covered the opening of the controversial new Arab language/Middle Eastern Culture middle school in Brooklyn for the News Service – and got…
What do journalists need to know about covering urban health issues? That’s the topic under the microscope at the Graduate School of Journalism’s first urban health workshop that will be held on October 12 and 13.
Danny Massey added this week to his great, ongoing multi-media series about a badly injured soldier’s return to New Jersey. Check it out on the Star-Legder of Newark’s website. Georgia Kral stirred things up this summer in New Haven, where…
It was no ordinary August day.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today that News Corporation has donated $500,000 to the school, payable over a five-year period.
“Employers have shown great interest in hiring a CUNY J-School intern,” said Ellen Walterscheid, the School’s Director of Career Services. “They like the idea of a public graduate school for journalists, and know that our students are being trained on…