Internships and Jobs
News, Awards, Internships, and Jobs
"GloJo" came together as a Journalism field of study in 2007. Here's what some of our alumni and current students are doing.
2012
Merel van Beeren (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) has a spring internship at Psychology Today.
Clint Rainey (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) has an internship at New York Magazine, assisting John Heilemann.
2011
Andrew O'Reilly (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) is reporting full-time for Fox News Latino.
Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has been accepted for the Spring 2012 "Politics & Journalism Semester" of the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism.
Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) is reporting full-time for the New York Daily News.
Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) is a fact-checker at The New Yorker.
Charity Tooze (GloJo-International Relations 2010) is the Washington-based senior communications officer for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) moved from magazine editing to become a news producer at Uraguay National Television. She still makes documentaries, too.
Jelena Kopanja (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is the Vienna-based editor of The Croatian Times.
Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) has started law school at Emory University.
Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) completed a summer position as a Washington D.C.-based reporter at Reuters and has taken a job in New York as a news desk editor at The Huffington Post.
Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) and Clint Rainey (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) both are interning this fall at The New Yorker. Ian has been awarded a scholarlship from the Hugh Fulton Byas Memorial fund, named for a British New York Times journalist who, like Ian, also spent time in Japan.
Natalie Rinn (GloJo-French Studies 2012) has a fall internship at BBC International.
Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) has a fall internship with Slate.
The Summer 2011 Thesis Reporting Roundup: The GloJo class of 2012 is far-flung this summer, reporting on the thesis topics they finalized this past spring for the long-form work they will produce -- under the guidance of faculty advisers from both disciplines -- in time for graduation in May 2012. These reports in so far: Merel van Beeren (GloJo-Near East 2012) is in Turkey; Ian Duncan (GloJo-IR 2012), whose project is domestic, is one of six New York Times-NYU interns at The Local East Village; Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian Slavic Studies 2012) has been reporting (and blogging) from all over Poland; Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) posted from Dearborn, Michigan, to The Revealer, where she writes regularly; Jessica Eise is posting from Nicaragua and Dana Sherne is blogging from Accra and also writing for the Accra newspaper, The Daily Graphic.
Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) has been named Associate World Editor of The Huffington Post.
Stephen Rex Brown (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008), who has specialized in local community news since graduation, started in May as the first senior correspondent of New York Times-NYU The Local East Village.
Habib Battah (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2010) won the 2011 European Union's Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award for his story on Beirut's remaining Jews.
Stephanie Butnick's (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) Spring 2011 internship at Tablet turned into a full-time job as editorial assistant at graduation.
Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2012) has accepted this summer travel fellowship to Auschwitz, which Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) traveled on in Summer 2010.
Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) joined The Economist in New York as an online producer for Ideas.
Elissa Lerner (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) has a spring internship with The New Yorker and is posting regularly at the newyorker.com.
CC Glenn (GloJo-French Studies 2011) has accepted a full-time position at FrancePress, where she had been interning since September.
Merel Van Beeren (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) has a spring internship at The New Yorker.
Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012) is interning for the second term with the investigative unit of CBS News.
Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) has a spring internship with The Nation.
Ryann Liebenthal (GloJo-French Studies 2010) has the spring Harper's internship.
Jessica Eise (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has spring internships at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Shamira Muhammad (Glojo-Africana Studies 2011) has a spring internships at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Shirin Barghi and Grace Maalouf (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) are interning with UNDP as Jessica Eise (GloJo-International Relations 2012) did last fall.
Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) moves from a fall internship at Guernica to a job at the publication as editorial assistant.
Stephen Brown (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), after a year at the Brooklyn Paper, honored by his former colleagues with this video tribute, has become the inaugural AOL Patch editor for Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) has a paid fellowship to report for four months on LGBT immigration issues for Feet in Two Worlds.
2010
Charity Tooze (GloJo-International Relations 2010) has self-published her multi-media master's project about on Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan, parts of which have appeared under Charity's byline on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360"CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" and at the Huffington Post. Her site is Living in Limbo .
Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) has a paid fellowship to report for four months on LGBT immigration issues for Feet in Two Worlds.
Jessica Eise (GloJo-International Relations 2012) submitted an application for the SAIFF contest and won! She was a host on the 2010 South Asian International Film Festival red carpet.
The master's project of Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008), a narrative study of glacier melt in the Andes, later published by Virginia Quarterly Review, has been listed as a notable submission in Bill Buford's Best Travel Writing of 2010.
Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2008) has special responsibility for the Near East, North Africa and Latin America as an editor at Roubini Global Economics.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is a based in Beirut as a research associate in the Middle East and North Africa program of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is the film and web editor of Trois Couleurs, a small Paris-based culture magazine.
Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) has accepted a full-time general assignment reporting position with Metro NY.
Michael E. Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is a full-time reporter for The Miami New Times.
Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) remains in New York at the French-American Foundation, where he is working on a major program about immigration and internal media and writes the foundation's weekly news report. He recently organized a conference on the subject in Miami.
Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) had a summer internship at the Associated Press bureau in Mexico City after a spring internship with Newsweek International.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is an assistant reporter in the United Nations bureau of the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, writing in Arabic.
Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) completed a City Room internship at The New York Times.
Adriana Leoff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is Editor in Chief at Búsqueda Weekly in Montevideo Uruguay.
2009
Jeremy Tanner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has a news position at WPIX-TV.
Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is an editor at rgemonitor.com.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is working at Cultures of Resistance.
Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) interned in the summer of 2009 for The New York Times for the Brooklyn edition of The Local in Fort Greene.
Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) was promoted to assistant online editor of The Americas. He continues to consult for Hearst on search engine optimization. The blog he started with a group of friends in 2005, The Seminal, is to become part of Fire Dog Lake. The week of June 22, 2009 he will be presenting a conference paper in Havana on the sustainable agricultural practices Cuba developed following the fall of the Soviet Union. The conference is organized through the Research Network in Cuba.
Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) is reporting full-time for The East Hampton Press.
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is interning at the New York Daily News.
Jelena Kopanja (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) interns at salon.com.
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) won the 2009 Stan Swinton Scholarship of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. As part of his award, the Associated Press posts him in Mexico City in the summer of 2009.
Jeremy Tanner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is interning at CNN Espanol.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is the Middle East intern for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) works full-time for Hearst Magazines Online.
Stephen Brown (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) has a Spring 2009 paid internship at The Daily Beast.
Shahan Mufti (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) became the Pakistan correspondent for GlobalPost.com as the website launched early in 2009.
2008
Clementine Gallot (Glojo-French Studies 2008) is a New York reporter for the French magazine, France-Amerique
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) had a fall 2008 internship at Newsweek International.
Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) had a summer 2008 internship at CNN International in New York City.
Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) landed a summer 2008 internship at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. In fall 2008 he worked with Radio France Internationale on Election 2008 as RFI prepared to and then broadcast live from the Institute's own studios.
Gabriela Reardon's (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) takeout for City Limits, based on her master's project on asylum prospects for Latin American gang members won the 2007 PASS award in the Web category. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency sponsors the award.
Jeffrey Iverson (GloJo-French Studies 2007) reports from Paris for Time magazine.
Amy Van Vechten (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is currently a multimedia producer for FLYP magazine. In the summer of 2007, she reported for LiveWire from the European Union in Brussels for six weeks and produced a piece that appeared in Abroad View. On her return from reporting her master’s project in Brussels and Paris, she and fellow NYU graduate students Nadia Taha, Joy Keh, Michael Rundle and Clare Trapasso placed second in the NLGJA (National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association) Excellence in Student Journalism Award for their multimedia project and Amy was one of four students selected and sponsored to attend the program in San Diego. In the fall of 2007, she interned for the ABC News long-form unit.
Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) interned in the summer of 2007 at The New York Times Paris bureau and in the 2007-8 school year at New York 1.
Arcynta L. Ali Childs (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) was chosen to participate in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). This was only the second year of the NAHJ program, and the second time an NYU Journalism graduate student has won one of the 20 spots.
Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) won a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, which included $10,000. She worked with Bill McKibben (the New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's, etc.) among others, and the program is helping with publication of her master's project.
Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2007) interned at the Council on Foreign Relations and wrote backgrounders on the French military that also appeared in The New York Times. His other backgrounders are archived on the CFR site. He now does research and produces for the web for The French-American Foundation.
Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) reported from Miami for The New York Times during her Institute fellowship and wrote "An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless." From New York, she published repeatedly during the internship that followed. She then moved on to Newsday.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) writes for the Damascus-based weekly, Thara.