BER Application Deadline May 1st

There's still time to apply — the Business & Economic Reporting Program is accepting applications until May 1st.

A Video Look at NYU Journalism

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Cody Brown Wins Reynolds Fellowship

Charles "Cody" Brown has won a Reynolds Undergraduate Scholarship in Social Entrepreneurship. He was one of 30 finalists among 115 applicants from across the university.

Cody is a sophomore double majoring in Journalism and film at Tisch. He is the architect of the nascent "InWhyYou" all-university blog. For more information about the project, please see http://inwhyyou.com or contact codyvbrown@gmail.com.

Dean Olsher on All Things Considered

A short commentary by Visiting Professor Dean Olsher appeared Friday on All Things Considered. His account of a five-year struggle with beavers and their aftermath has been airing nationwide as part of a series called "Stories From the Heart of the Land". Next month he will host the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (Jan. 15-16, 12-2pm).

NewDocs Film Festival 2008

An annual event featuring a panel discussion and screenings of the latest documentaries produced by NYU Journalism graduate students -- free and open to the public! February 1-2.

BER Application Deadline May 1st

There's still time to apply — the Business & Economic Reporting Program is accepting applications until May 1st.

Alumna Wins Ida B. Wells Award

Women's eNews has named Cristi Hegranes (M.A. '05) one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 and the winner of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism. In 2006, Hegranes founded the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World, which trains women to become local investigative reporters focusing on issues such as reproductive health and political oppression. The institute, which has trained 10 reporters in Chiapas, Mexico and Kathmandu, Nepal, also features a news wire with readership in 50 countries.

Clinical Assistant Professor

The Department of Journalism at New York University invites applications for a three-year appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor starting May 1, 2008, pending budgetary and administrative approval. Materials are due no later than January 15, 2008. More information »

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Dean Olsher on All Things Considered

A short commentary by Visiting Professor Dean Olsher appeared Friday on All Things Considered. His account of a five-year struggle with beavers and their aftermath has been airing nationwide as part of a series called "Stories From the Heart of the Land". Next month he will host the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (Jan. 15-16, 12-2pm).

Grad Student Wins OPC Scholarship

Rollo Romig, a graduate student in Portfolio, has won an Overseas Press Club scholarship to write about the use of "blood timber" to fund the Liberian civil war.

Steiger on Pro Publica at 20 Cooper Reception

NYU Journalism recently celebrated its new space at 20 Cooper Square with 200+ guests, including Pro Publica editor-in-chief Paul Steiger, who talked about his upcoming nonprofit journalism venture: "An independent newsroom staffed at levels unprecedented for a nonprofit journalism organization." Video coverage of the talk is available, and Media Bistro has further coverage and photos.

SHERP's 25th Anniversary Celebration

More than 200 SHERP alumni, friends and faculty gathered this fall to celebrate the program's 25th anniversary with a full day of events, including a symposium on synthetic biology featuring famed geneticist J. Craig Venter and a panel of prominent journalists and policy analysts. Watch video highlights of the symposium »

Another NYU Grad Student Earns Spot in New York Times Student Journalism Institute

Arcynta L. Ali Childs, a GLOJO student in the Journalism/Caribbean and Latin American Studies joint program, has been chosen to participate in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). More »

Wasserman Talks "Vanishing Reviews" on NPR

Prof. Steve Wasserman was a recent guest on NPR's On the Media, where he discussed his widely-noted piece in the Columbia Journalism Review "Goodbye to All That," on the decline of the coverage of books. Both the audio and a transcript are available from NPR.

Screening and Q&A: WAR/DANCE

NYU Journalism presents an advance screening of WAR/DANCE, Winner of the Documentary Directing Award at The Sundance Film Festival. There will be a Q&A with director and camera person Sean Fine and producer Albie Hecht afterwards. Monday, November 5th.

SHERP Collaborates with NSF Award Winner

NYU Journalism's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, known as SHERP, is collaborating with Professor of Biology Michael Purugannan on a $4.4 million grant Purugannan received recently from the National Science Foundation to advance his research in plant genetics. Details »

NYU Journalism Open-Sources its Ethics Code

"Putting this [ethics] handbook online and inviting comments is our way to harness the wisdom of the Web," writes Prof. Adam L. Penenberg.

Street Level Goes Live

Faculty members Pete Hamill and Alyssa Katz launch Street Level, a magazine of NYU's best undergraduate feature writing. Find out how to apply for this year's editions and join us on October 15th to celebrate our contributors and their outstanding journalism. Read Street Level »

Radio Rebirth

NYU Journalism is pleased to welcome as a visiting faculty member this year Dean Olsher, a National Public Radio veteran and creator, host and executive producer of WNYC's highly acclaimed "The Next Big Thing". Hear his plans for engaging in our new studios with "the medium formerly known as radio." (MP3 download)

Rock's Surrender Tango Featured

Prof. Marcia Rock's documentary, Surrender Tango, will be featured at the Milan Documentary Festival, and at Ballet Hispanico by New York Women in Film & Television. Both screenings are on Sept. 27.

Prof. Rocks' The Women Salt Miners of Ada

On Saturday Sept. 15, Prof. Marcia Rock screened her work-in-progress, The Women Salt Miners of Ada at the Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival. She was part of the "Think Globally, Shoot Locally" forum of shorts and "works-in-progress."

Alumna Selected for NPR News Kroc Fellowship

Alumna Shomial Ahmad joins NPR News as a 2007-2008 Joan B. Kroc Fellow. Ahmad was one of three Fellows chosen from a record 340 applicants, coming from 10 countries, 41 states and the District of Columbia. She will work alongside NPR News broadcast and digital media reporters, producers and editors to develop production and editorial skills and will work at an NPR Member station to explore journalism at a local level. And she's off to a sweet start.

Seife on "The Universe"

Catch Prof. Charles Seife in "The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang" on the History Channel, a look at the idea that the universe, and man's very existence, began with a "Big Bang." Interviews with Seife and other leading physicists and historians explain how science arrived at such a conclusion. From Sep. 5th - Sep 15th.

Geneticist Ventner Keynotes SHERP Event

Famed geneticist J. Craig Venter, who mapped the human genome and now heads a global effort to create "designer microbes" to address some of the world's most vexing global environmental and health problems, will keynote a symposium on the subject on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. at New York University's Cantor Film Center, as part of SHERP's 25th Anniversary. Details »

NYC Pavement Pieces: "Excellence in Journalism"

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association recently announced its 2007 Excellence in Journalism awards, and Prof. Yvonne Latty's Spring 2007 WRR II/Newspaper class grabbed second place for their work on "NYC Pavement Pieces: LGBT NYC," an online multimedia project profiling LGBT people in New York.

Latty's Book at the Temple University Theater

An adaptaion of Prof. Yvonne Latty's book In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out On Duty, Loss and the Fight To Stay Alive will be performed at Temple University from Oct. 3rd-13th. The production will feature twelve actors performing 21 of the vets portrayed in the book. Download the flyer.

Solomon on NPR Weekend Edition

Prof. Stephen D. Solomon discusses his latest book Ellery's Protest on NPR's Weekend Edition. Ellery Schempp, from the Supreme Court case the book is named after also speaks on the show.

Penenberg Wins 2007 Deadline Club Award

Prof. Adam Penenberg won a 2007 Deadline Club Award for his piece "Revenge of the Nerds," published in Fast Company. The Deadline Club in New York City is one of the largest chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Deadline Club Awards honor the best in New York based journalism.

Off The Bus: The '08 Campaign Trail

Prof. Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net and The Huffington Post are launching a new joint venture in campaign journalism: Off The Bus. The goal is to use a wide range of citizen journalists to cover the campaign outside of the usual focus on polls and in-fighting. More info from Rosen's PressThink, The Huffington Post, and the NYTimes.

Grad at Asian American International FilmFest

Recent grad student Barnaby Lo's documentary MD-RN, on the exodus of nurses in the Philippines to the U.S., will be playing at the Asian American International Film Festival, Sunday July 22. More info »

Grad Student Wins Middlebury College Fellowship

Graduate student Carolyn Kormann has won a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, which includes $10,000. She will be working with Bill McKibben (the New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's, etc.) next year, among others, and the program will help her publish her master's project.

Ten Questions for Pete Hamill

"[Bush and Cheney] didn't grow up in Brooklyn, where you know if you punch a guy in the mouth, he's going to come back with three other guys and punch you back." Prof. Pete Hamill sits down for a Q&A with the Boston Globe (registration req'd).

Latty's Book Hits Off-Broadway Theaters

Excerpts from Prof. Yvonne Latty's book In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out On Duty, Loss and The Fight to Stay Alive is being performed in several off-Broadway theaters by students of Wilton High School in Connecticut in June. Details »

Mehta Wins Premio Napoli 2007

Prof. Suketu Mehta's book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found has been selected as one of the three ex-aequo winners of the Premio Napoli 2007 literary award for the "foreign fiction" section.

New Faculty Hires

The department is pleased to welcome three new professors to its full-time faculty: Mohamad Bazzi, Suketu Mehta, and Katie Roiphe.

Professor Roiphe this fall becomes the assistant director of the graduate Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. Professor Mehta, who has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, will begin teaching next spring. Professor Bazzi, who this coming year will be the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins teaching in the Fall of 2008.

We've moved!

The Department of Journalism is now located at 20 Cooper Square, a short walk from the Washington Square campus and our previous location.

Grad Wins Student Academy Award

Recent News & Documentary graduate student Megan Thompson has won a student academy award! Details »

Undergrad Selected for NAHJ Convention Project

Denise Martinez, an undergraduate and previous winner of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) scholarship, was one of only 14 students nationwide selected to participate in the El Noticiero/TV News Project program for NAHJ's annual convention this summer.

Assignment Zero on The Citizendium

The first piece of citizen journalism created by Assignment Zero, a "pro-am" collaboration between Wired and Prof. Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net, explores crowdsourcing. The project still has a month to go, but here's a preview on Wired's site.

Weschler Wins National Book Critics Circle Award

The Department congratulates Distinguished Writer in Residence Lawrence Weschler, on winning The National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism with Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.

Media Criticism Curriculum Revamped

The Department is blazing new trails in the cutting-edge subject of media criticism. Professors Mark Dery and Mitch Stephens have recently completed the reinvention of the undergraduate concentration in Media Criticism, rationalizing our curriculum and re-thinking our angles of theoretical attack on this vitally important (and increasingly popular) subject.

New course offerings in press criticism, methods of media analysis, and do-it-yourself media (a course titled "New Forms") emphasize the social roles, corporate influences, and ideological agendas of the media, as well as the Web 2.0 revolution in self-publishing and social networking — so-called "citizen's media."

The undergraduate concentration in Media Criticism equips students with the analytical strategies, historical knowledge, and writing and reportorial skills necessary to engage critically with the ever more mediated world around them.

Good Morning, Dangme

Recent grad student Takaya Kawasaki's film, Good Morning, Dangme has been selected as a special feature for the UN Documentary Film Festival. It will be screened at the festival on April 22, 2007. The UN chose only two films as special features for the festival. Takaya's film was part of this year's NewDocs Film Festival.

Travel Writing Awards

Summer undergrad student Jessica Kerry and grad alum Janna Leyde have both won Solas Awards, an honor for excellence in travel writing, from the publisher Travelers' Tales. Both Jessica's piece, about the lives of Israeli soldiers, and Janna's, about climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, will be considered for inclusion in a Best Travel Writing anthology. Awards were made in 21 categories, drawn from about 300 entrants.

The Alumni Mentor Program

The Journalism Department is pleased to announce a new Alumni Mentor Program for undergraduate and graduate students. The goal of the program is to link current grad and undergrad students with alumni who know what it takes to succeed in the journalism world. How it works »

Arwa Gunja Wins Internship Scholarship

Arwa Gunja, a senior in the Journalism Department, has won the May and Samuel Rudin Memorial Internship Scholarship for $1,000. Arwa is an intern this spring at ABC News "Nightline."

BER Student Wins OPC Scholarship

Andy Greenberg, a student in Business and Economic Reporting, has been awarded an Overseas Press Club Scholarship, funded by Reuters. Andy's essay focused on the ongoing conflict between Chinese government censors and the Chinese Internet users who are trying to expand their own freedom of expression. Andy is a second-semester student.

New: Assignment Zero

Prof. Jay Rosen's new online venture, Assignment Zero, is a collaboration between Wired.com and his NewAssignment.Net. The idea: lots of people work on one story, with many parts. And with editors. CRC alum Lauren Sandler plays a starring role. Here's the New York Times coverage.

NYU's Blog-Reading Habits

Journalism students in Professor Kroeger's Foundations of Journalism class surveyed nearly 2,000 NYU undergraduates across the campus to learn that fewer than half of them read blogs and of those who do, the favored topics are entertainment and gossip. Top news sources among those sampled: nytimes.com and cnn.com. Details at WSN.

Prof. Yvonne Latty on the History Channel

Prof. Yvonne Latty shares the tale of a young black medic who saved more than 300 lives on the beach, regardless of color, only to be denied a medal of honor by the U.S. military, in a History Channel special. Details »

Wall Street Journal Fellowships

The Wall Street Journal is sponsoring fellowships for two journalists working in Asia to study in NYU's program in Business and Economic Reporting. Details »

Megan Thompson Wins a "Gracie"

Alumna Megan Thompson won the Gracie Allen Student Documentary Award from the American Women In Radio and Television for her piece, "Ladies of the Land." She receives her award at the ceremony at Tavern on the Green in June. Her film was part of the New Docs 2007 festival.

Street Level to Launch

NYU faculty Pete Hamill and Alyssa Katz are co-editing a new online magazine of NYU's top undergraduate journalism. Submit stories to Street Level and get your work seen by editors and producers.

Summer 2007 - Study Abroad

Love to travel? Want to do some very-out-of-town reporting? Apply now to study journalism abroad this summer in London, UK, or Accra, Ghana, or Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Prof. Jane Stone Wins Another duPont Award

Prof. Jane Stone picked up an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism (her second) for her work on NBC News' coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Only 14 programs were chosen from over 500 entries.

Grad Student Wins a Place in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute

Laura Rivera, an NYU graduate student, has won a coveted place in the first New York Times Student Journalism Institute for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). The program, held Jan. 3-13 at Florida International University in Miami, is giving 20 student journalists from 15 colleges the chance to work closely with professionals from The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Times Company's Regional Media Group. Details »

Pamela Noel, Career Services

The department welcomes Pamela Noel as our new head of Career Services. She comes to NYU from The New York Times, and brings both journalism know-how and a belief that effective career counseling is a vital part of journalism education.

"The Audition" - Brooke Kroeger to NYU Graduates

Department Chair Brooke Kroeger spoke at the December 4th graduation ceremony of NYU's College of Arts and Science. The faculty feels this speech reflects the ideals and standards of our department and we are pleased and honored to present it to a wider audience. Read the transcript.

A Tragic Loss: Professor Ellen Willis

The Department of Journalism mourns the death, November 9, 2006, of our friend and colleague, Professor Ellen Willis. Some of the many remembrances: The New York Times, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Observer.

Our Future Home: 20 Cooper Square

In Summer 2007, the Department is scheduled to move to new, state-of-the-art facilities at 20 Cooper Square, a short walk from the NYU Washington Square campus in Greenwich Village. Details »

Three Department Openings

The Department of Journalism invites applications for three important positions: A full-time tenured or tenure-track position (open rank), a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the CRC Program and an Associate Director to head the Career Services program.

Women's National Book Association Award

Professor Perri Klass, M.D. was recently announced as the recipient of the 2006 Women's National Book Association Award. The award has been presented continually since 1940, to American women who have done "meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation." Previous recipients have included Eleanor Roosevelt, Rachel Carson and Barbara Bush.

NYU Journalism's New Programs

Beginning in the fall of 2007, NYU Journalism will offer three new graduate concentrations for incoming students. Details »

National Television Academy Awards for Three Broadcast Students

Eleanor Applewhaite, Bruce Paisner, Mickey Dwyer-Dobbin, Sarah Frank, Marlene Sanders, Marcia Rock, Megan Thompson, Christos Gavalas and Carielle Doe.

Three broadcast students, Megan Thompson, Christos Gavalas and Carielle Doe received the National Television Academy New York Foundation Lee and Rosalind Begman Assistantship Awards totaling $5000. The money provided much needed support for their traveling last summer to produce their capstone documentary projects. The ceremony was held at the new Hearst building.

Our Future Home: 20 Cooper Square

In Summer 2007, the Department is scheduled to move to new, state-of-the-art facilities at 20 Cooper Square, a short walk from the NYU Washington Square campus in Greenwich Village. Details »

Speakers Series, Fall 2006

The Department is hosting three speaker series this fall: the Distinguished Speakers Forum, a new series, the long-running Brown Bag Speaker Series, and the "Inside Out" Speaker Series, sponsored by the Department's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP).

Two Awards for Alumna Shomial Ahmad

Department alumna Shomial Ahmad recently won two reporting awards: 2nd place for Student/Print work in the 2006 Lone Star Awards, given by the Houston Press Club for her story "Awakening Islam" in the Fort Worth Weekly, and the Judy Mann Scholarship ($600) to attend the JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium) Fall Symposium in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Evelyn Hernandez Named Nieman Fellow at Harvard

Prof. Evelyn Hernandez is one of twenty-eight U.S. and international journalists named to the 69th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Prof. Hernandez teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department, and is the opinion page editor of El Diario/La Prensa. At Harvard she will study the role of media in preserving Hispanic institutions, communities and identity and building new ones, given the ongoing changes in the U.S. Hispanic population.

New Faculty: A Welcome to Yvonne Latty

The Faculty of the Department of Journalism is pleased to welcome Yvonne Latty, reporter and author, as a Clinical Associate Professor, starting in the Fall of 2006. Prof. Latty will be teaching Journalistic Inquiry and graduate level Writing, Research and Reporting classes.

Scarlet Letter Wins Two Deadline Club Awards

Graduate student Sarah Jacob's documentary The Scarlet Letter has won two Deadline Club awards from the NYC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The awards are scholarships for academic journalistic achievement. The Scarlet Letter explores the phenomenon of acid attacks against women in India.

Recent graduate Anna Boluda's documentary Queer Spawn to air on thirteen/WNET in June

Recent graduate Anna Boluda's documentary Queer Spawn will be broadcast in June on channel thirteen/WNET during the June LGBT Pride programming. It is scheduled for June 15th at 10.30pm. Details »

Dept. seeking candidates to hire as adjuncts for the Fall 2006 undergraduate gateway lecture, Foundations of Journalism

The Department of Journalism is seeking six superb candidates to hire as adjuncts in Fall 2006 to work with Prof. Brooke Kroeger in teaching the large undergraduate gateway lecture, Foundations of Journalism. Details »

Alum wins 2006 ASNE Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by an Individual

NYU Journalism alum John Simerman ('94) is the 2006 recipient of ASNE's Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by an Individual. Simerman, a reporter at the Contra Costa Times, wrote his prize-winning story "bleary-eyed" at 3am after having witnessed the midnight execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams at San Quentin State Prison on December 13, 2005. One of only seventeen print and broadcast journalists selected to witness the execution, Simerman's 600 word news story is a chilling piece of reportage, written in plain, dispassionate language. It's a style he owes to his old NYU professor Michael Norman, who Simerman credits for teaching him the technique: "Witness the liberal use of the simple declarative sentence in this story: This is the Norman curse, rearing its head 12 years later at 3 a.m., when defenses are weak." Professor Norman learning of his former student's recent success had these declarative statements of his own. "John was always a strong writer and aggressive reporter, devoted to accuracy and to the great virtues of the simple declarative sentence. His award-winning story, written on an extreme deadline, is sensational."

Darwin, "Design" and the Reporter's Dilemma

Listen to the recent discussion hosted by the Department, featuring a leader of the ID movement, one of his most prominent critics, and the national religion correspondent from The New York Times.

Undergraduate Adivising Information

Contact information and office hours for undergraduate advisors: Details »

Info Sessions for the New Undergraduate Curriculum

We have scheduled three informational sessions to explain our exciting new journalism curriculum to you. All meetings will be held in the atrium of 10 Washington Place. Please do your best to make it to one of these gatherings. Hopefully, we will answer all your questions and allay any of your fears. If you can’t make it to a session, make an appointment to see Cathleen Dullahan (cd8@nyu.edu) or Michael Ludlum (ml2@nyu.edu) before registration begins.

• Monday, Feb. 27, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Tuesday, Feb. 28, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m
• Tuesday, Feb. 28, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

More information »

New Undergraduate Curriculum

The faculty and staff are excited to announce the new undergraduate curriculum for Fall 2006 and beyond. Our intent is to enliven, deepen, and enrich the experience. The undergraduate Honors program has also been reworked and improved.

There will be a transition program for those students already studying in the Department, and information sessions to further cover and discuss the upcoming changes.

Details: undergraduate requirements.

Special Library and Online Research and Reporting Workshops for Graduate Students

Tue, Wed and Thu, Feb. 7, 8 and 9, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m and 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sign up is mandatory. Sign-up sheets on the door to the chair's office, Carter Room 502.

Wed and Thu, Feb. 22 and 23, deep research workshops in Culture, Science, Business and Statistics and Data. Sign up also on the door to the chair's office, Carter Room 502. More details »

George Clooney on Murrow and Journalism

George Clooney, Grant Heslov and David Strathairn visit NYU and discuss Edward R. Murrow, Good Night and Good Luck, and what journalism can do. Watch it! »

New Faculty, New Chair

This past fall the Department appointed 12 new faculty members including six full-time professors and six Distinguished Writers in Residence. Most will teach both graduate and undergraduate classes. In addition, Brooke Kroeger, a member of the faculty since 1998, has been named department chair for a three-year term.

Prof. Susie Linfield Wins an IPPIE

Her piece in Dissent this past winter, entitled "The Dance of Civilizations: the East, the West, and Abu Ghraib," has won an IPPIE award for excellence from the Independent Press Association.

Brown Bag Speakers: Fall 2005

The Fall 2005 "Brown Bag" lunchtime speakers program will feature a roster of instantly recognizable names. Details...

SERP Speakers

The SERP program is hosting a series of evening speakers featuring some of the best science, health and environmental journalists in the business. Events begin at 6:00 p.m. in the 5th floor atrium. Details...

2005 New York Press Club Award

Ed Beeson (M.A. May '04) recently won the New York Press Club's 2005 Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award, for a package of stories he wrote for The (N.J.) Herald News between July and December 2004.

Pete Hamill Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has awarded its Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award to Pete Hamill, one of the department's Distinguished Writers in Residence.

Greetings from Russia! - Summer 2005

Now in its third year -- students report from Rostov, Russia, in an intensive, four-week program that brings American and Russian journalism students together. Follow along and check out photos, stories and video from this and previous years in On Location: Rostov, Russia.

PressThink Wins 2005 Blog Freedom Award

Congratulations to Jay Rosen, whose PressThink won the 2005 Blog Freedom Award from Reporters Without Borders for weblogs "defending freedom of expression." The contest was international, with winners from Afghanistan, Iran, Germany and Italy among others. For more info read Jay's post.

Journalism in London - Summer 2005

Six amazing weeks to explore one of the greatest cities of the world, and 8 credits toward your degree.

Dept. Students Awarded Prestigious Internships

Numerous students from the department have won highly competitive, paid Summer 2005 internships at the following publications—with more to come as they're awarded!

• Russell Berman (undergrad): The Los Angeles Times, Dow Jones editing internship
• Kristy Buller (undergrad): Lancaster (Penn.) Intelligencer Journal, reporting internship
• Mallory Carra (undergrad): The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer, sports reporting internship
• Renee DeFranco (undergrad): Self (Conde Nast), American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) internship
• Michael de la Merced (grad): The Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News, reporting internship
• Daniel Del Re (grad): Time Inc. internship
• Lisa Fleisher (undergrad): The Boston Globe, reporting internship
• Marissa Harris (undergrad): NPR, All Things Considered, internship
• Christina Jeng (undergrad): The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer, reporting internship
• Ben Margulies (WSN'er): The New York Times, Dow Jones editing internship
• Andres Martinez (undergrad): Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, reporting internship (summer); The Miami Herald, editing internship (fall)
• Kate Meyer (undergrad): New York Daily News, reporting internship
• Jon Mummolo (undergrad): Newsday, reporting internship
• Serena Ng (grad): The Wall Street Journal, reporting internship (was also offered the Washington Post internship)
• Amy Padnani (undergrad): Newsday, reporting internship
• Geraldine de Puy (grad): In Style, Time Inc. internship
• Christina Rogers (grad): The Roanoke (Va.) Times, reporting internship
• Cristina Silva (undergrad): The Boston Globe, reporting internship
• Jonathan Steiman (grad): Time Inc. internship
• Emily Tan (undergrad): Erie (Penn.) Times-News, Dow Jones business reporting internship
• Divya Watal (grad): U.S. News & World Report, reporting internship

Overseas Press Club Awards

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Matthew's winning essay described a bike trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Charles told the story of the people of Nagaland, a small state in northeastern India, who have been embroiled in an insurgency since the country gained independence from colonial Britain in 1963. Wanfeng, a first-semester BER student who previously covered business and politics for China Daily, wrote in her winning essay about the emerging Chinese economy.

Reporting Ghana - Spring 2005 in Accra

NYU and Ghanaian journalism students team up in Accra and report on local issues from politics to health care to immigration. Check out student Mara Dajevskis's live online journal Gone to Ghana, recounting her experiences in Ghana and beyond. For more info on NYU in Ghana, see the Study Abroad site.

Big in Japan!

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This two-page color spread introduced the cover story on colleges around the world in the October 27 issue of Newsweek Japan. The photo (by Malcolm Linton) shows Prof. Jim O'Grady and his "Writing, Research and Reporting I" class in Carter Hall. The text seems to be extolling N.Y.U. for having one of the largest enrollments in the United States. Perhaps it also notes the students thoughtful expressions and devilish good looks.

Spring 2005 Brown Bag Speakers

The Spring 2005 "Brown Bag" lunchtime speakers program will feature a roster of instantly recognizable names. Most events begin at 12:00 p.m. in the 5th floor atrium, and end at 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. This spring's first speaker was Pete Hamill, who read from his new book Downtown: My Manhattan. View details and schedule...

Broadcast Students Hit the Film Fests

Our Cause: Burmese Freedom Fighters in America by Frederic Vernet will be playing at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, taking place June 4-10. You can also watch it online (if you can't make it to Dallas this summer).

Koji Hiyasaki's film Leung's Journey was accepted at the 2004 SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in Washington D.C., and is playing on June 18th and 19th. View the SILVERDOCS website for details, or watch it online.

Elbow Grease

After revising and re-revising her final paper for Professor Jim O'Grady's magazine class, undergrad Erin Kandel "had the guts to pitch it" to The New York Times's "Circuits" section, says O'Grady. The Times bought it. Let that be a lesson to you.

Brides of the Drug Lords

An alumna of the Portfolio program, Fariba Nawa recently published a story on the drug trade in Afghanistan as the cover story in the Times of London.

Crazy Bastard Trying to Cover the War

A "crazy bastard trying to cover the war": That's how self-embedded blogger-turned-war correspondent Chris Allbritton described himself, in a recent New York article. Allbritton, who taught undergrad digital journalism at NYU, is back in Iraq.

NATAS Awards for NYU Journalism Students

Photo: Bill Hanauer, Executive Director of the NY Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Katrina Markel, Sara Pellegrini, NYU Journalism Professor Marcia Rock.

The Foundation of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Lee and Rosalind Begman Assistantships to NYU Journalism graduate students Sara Pelegrino and Katrina Markel.

Each received a check for $2500 for their documentary projects they will complete next Fall. Markel's story is on "Bikers Against Child Abuse: Breaking the Chains," and Pellegrini's is on "Doing Time on the Outside -- Wives and Girlfriends of Incarcerated Men."

Nat Hentoff Named National Endowment for the Arts 2004 Jazz Master

Nat Hentoff, who has spoken to our students twice as a Brown Bag speaker and who taught a highly successful Fall 2003 course on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights, has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of its 2004 Jazz Masters. He is the first writer to be given such an award. Others honored this year include Herbie Hancock and Nancy Wilson. This is an award that one does not apply for—Mr. Hentoff was honored in recognition of his more than 50 years writing about jazz. He was a former New York editor of Down Beat, has produced record labels, and has written several books about jazz.

Broadcast News

A scene from Leang's Journey.

Two recent graduates of the Department's broadcast journalism program are earning impressive honors. Koji Hayasaki's documentary, Leang's Journey, is a finalist in the shorts category of the Arizona International Film Festival and was just accepted into the New York Asian American Film Festival, the oldest and most prestigious Asian Film Festival. Most recently, the film has been officially selected to participate in the 2003 Asian Film Festival of Dallas, May 2003.

Carey Fox's documentary, Memory/Memorial: The Memorial for September 11, was officially selected for the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

Undergraduate broadcast student Lauren Acuna received the New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Scholarship of $1000. She will receive the award at their dinner on May 22.

Lauren also won a Kaiser Media Internship. She will work at KXAS-5 TV as an intern in urban health reporting.

Professors Invited to Serve on Journalism Commission