Sean Jacobs founded Africa Is a Country a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African Left in 2009. Over the last 10+ years, Sean has grown the site from a solo show to a niche yet influential media company with a core team of six paid permanent team members, and a host of freelance contributors working on everything from content to design to fundraising.
NYC leaders have promised to pursue tough penalties for perpetrators of hate crimes against Asians, Jews, and other targeted groups. But as THE CITY reported in a story co-written by Claudia Irizarry Aponte '18, most hate crime charges get pleaded down or dropped before conviction. Join Daryl Khan, director of Urban Reporting, as he interviews Irizarry Aponte on the story behind this important criminal justice story.
Elena Kostyuchenko, a former international-journalist-in-residence at the Newmark J-School, safely left Ukraine recently after her paper, Novaya Gazeta, suspended operations.
The prizes given to four alumni recognize excellence in social justice, business, and investigative journalism as well as the graduate who best exemplifies the values, spirit, and excellence of Newsweek magazine.
The #LMS22 is a hybrid, bilingual Spanish-English, two-day event that brings together elite journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and industry leaders to converse in meaningful ways about the ideas, innovations, and opportunities for Latinx journalism and its community.
The two-day training led by Daryl Khan, director of Urban Reporting at the Newmark J-School, will examine investigative stories that exposed corruption in the wake of two killings by police. It's part of the Newmark J-School's Criminal Justice Reporting Initiative funded by The Tow Foundation.
Professional development courses in digital skills, video and social storytelling, journalism innovation, and NYC writing and reporting during the month of July.
The newest Ravitch fiscal reporting program--a three-day session on local economic reporting--examines economic reporting, tax incentives, and inequality and offers workshops on small business, real estate, and economics. It will involve 19 journalists who work at nonprofits, American City Business Journals, Crain's, and major local outlets.The program is funded by New York civic leader and Newmark J-School supporter Richard Ravitch and pays all travel, lodging, and food expenses for participants.
The five-day fiscal session enters its eighth year with sessions on budgets, bonds, pensions, and tax incentives. The 26 journalists attending is a new record. The program is funded by New York civic leader and Newmark J-School supporter Richard Ravitch and pays all travel, lodging, and food expenses for participants. It's led by Greg David, director of the Business and Economics Reporting Program at the Newmark J-School.
The entering class of students will join us for the first on-campus orientation since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
