Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Bots for News

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

Learn how news organizations are using AI and internal and external bots.

Event Series Basics of Narrative Writing

Basics of Narrative Writing

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

In the two day session, learn how to pick topics, discuss how to present them using different writing techniques and write and rewrite short paragraphs. In the second session, bring your own short narrative essay on the topic of their choice and workshop it in class under the instructor’s guidance.

Event Series Basics of Narrative Writing

Basics of Narrative Writing

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

In the two day session, learn how to pick topics, discuss how to present them using different writing techniques and write and rewrite short paragraphs. In the second session, bring your own short narrative essay on the topic of their choice and workshop it in class under the instructor’s guidance.

Getting Started with Excel

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

In this workshop, we will learn how to get around a spreadsheet, import data sets into Excel, types of data stories, clean and format data, some useful formulas, and Pivot Tables (time permitting).

Magazine Fact-Checking

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

You'll come away with the basic skills to fact-check at any news outlet, and you'll also have tips on how you can apply these steps to your own work if you don’t have the luxury of working with a fact-checker.

Portrait Photography

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

This day-long workshop will start with a brief presentation of portraiture through various genres and a discussion of the essential skills required to shoot striking portraits.

Intro to Blockchain for Journalism

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

Learn how blockchains could help with integrity of news stories and micropayments for writers. Also learn what blockchains proponents think this could mean for the future of journalism and media.

Covering the Middle East and its Peoples in the USA

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

In this workshop, go over the skills journalists need to have when covering such communities that have long been either invisible in mainstream coverage, or hyper-visible in sensationalized and problematic ways.