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Smart Fact-Checking: Tools, Techniques, and AI Methods for Journalists

Virtual via Zoom

Instructor: Mike Reilley, Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai In a fast-changing media and AI-driven landscape, it is critical to empower community journalists to fight misinformation while building their skills in using digital investigation tools and techniques. This training will equip participants with techniques to verify content, authenticate sources, and conduct in-depth online research using…

Film Screening: Drop Dead City 

Room 308

Student Affairs invites the community to watch the documentary “Drop Dead City”. In 1975, New York City is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers, and flexers find common ground — and a way out. This documentary explores NYC’s 1975 fiscal crisis and what life was like for New Yorkers in the 1970s, blending archival…

CCM’s Year-End Celebration

Cafe/Lobby

We cordially invite you to join the Center for Community Media as we close out 2025!

We’ve Seen This Before: Lessons from Exile on Recognizing Authoritarianism

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY 219 W. 40th St., New York, United States

Across continents—from Russia to Iran, from Hungary to Venezuela—journalists have learned to read the early signals of autocracy: the slow normalization of censorship, the weaponization of “national security,” and the gradual erosion of the importance of facts. This conversation will explore the panelists’ experiences as journalists and Kronika, a platform born from the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA), as a tool to protect public memory.

Newmark Film Festival Short Docs 2025

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY 219 W. 40th St., New York, United States

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY's 2025 Short Docs screening showcases the work of students graduating from the documentary program. 

Free

Meet and Greet with Knight Press Freedom Fellow Mohammed R. Mhawish

Cafe/Lobby

Join the Journalism Protection Initiative in welcoming award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed R. Mhawish to Newmark as their new Knight Press Freedom Fellow. Mohammed will speak about his experiences reporting in Gaza and plans for the fellowship year. He will also answer your questions. Pizza will be served. This event is only open to the Newmark J-School community. Please use your…

NLGJA General Body Meeting with LOOKOUT

Room 434

NLGJA will host their first general body meeting on Feb. 4 to chat and discuss ideas for the spring semester. They will also be visited virtually by Joseph Jaafari, a Newmark alum and EIC of LOOKOUT, an Arizona-based LGBTQ newsroom. LOOKOUT is hiring through J-Corps this year, and Joseph will tell us about the newsroom and summer internship opportunity! This will…

Film Screening: Rosemead

Room 308

Join AAJA NY and AAJA Newmark for an exclusive screening of "Rosemead," the award-winning film starring Lucy Liu, written by Marilyn Fu, directed by Eric Lin, and produced by Lucy Liu, Mynette Louie, and Andrew Corkin. Inspired by a harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect…