Internships & Jobs

News, Awards, Honors, Internships, and Jobs

“GloJo” came together as a Journalism field of study in 2007, meaning our first graduates were the Class of 2009. Here’s a year-by-year report on what some of our recent alumni and current students are doing. You can get a good real time sense of the plentiful publishing (and gatherings) of our current students and alumni on GloJo’s Facebook page and on our @NYU_GloJo page on Twitter, too.

2020

PULITZERS! Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) and Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) were named Pulitzer Prize recipients for 2020. Molly for Audio, the first award in this category, and Ian as part of the Baltimore Sun’s winning Local Reporting team. Molly is now at the Los Angeles Times and Ian at the Washington Post. Huge congratulations to both.

Alanna Elder (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2020) is a Report for America 2020 Fellow for WITW in Harrisburg, Pa., covering the Latinx community in the wider area.

Leo Schwartz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2020) has joined the full-time staff of RestofWorld.org

Mateo Nelson (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2020) is an Overseas Press Club Scholar Award Winner for 2020, assigned to Reuters’s Beirut Bureau (now when possible.)

Tim O’Donnell (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) will be one of 15 Fulbright’s Berlin Capital program fellows this year.

Erin O’Brien (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2021) will be interning at PEN America this summer. She and Emmy Freedman (GloJo-International Relations 2021) reported on the COVID crisis and Black Lives Matter protests in New York City for Bedford and Bowery.

2019

Joseph Zeballos-Roig (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) has been appointed BusinessInsider‘s economic policy reporter, with a focus on taxes and federal spending.

Anna Pasoz (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) has accepted a feature editor producer position for BBC Reel, based in New York City.

Lauren Kaori Gurley (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) has joined Vice‘s Motherboard as a staff writer covering the labor movement in tech. She recently completed a year’s fellowship at the New Republic.

Hannah Beckler (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) is at Type Investigations for the summer.

Nidia Bautista and Hanna Wallis (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2017 and 2018, respectively) have been named Adelante fellows by the IWMF.

Aron Ouzilevski (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2020) received a fellowship to attend the seven-week Middlebury Institute of International Studies’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia (after he completes his summer thesis reporting in Moscow.)

Isabelle Caballero-Samper (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) has started full-time as a reporter for the Poynter Institute’s fact-checking site, Colombiacheck.

Grace Maalouf (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) is a senior staff editor at the New York Times after a four-year stint with the Huffington Post.

Aleesa Mann (GloJo-Africana Studies 2019) has won both the Boren Scholarship (Africa) and the FASPE fellowship (Auschwitz).

Anna Pazos (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) is on a BBC contract (she interned at the company last year) for documentaries, based in New York City.

Joseph Zeballos (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) has accepted a position as incoming Policy Reporting Fellow at Business Insider.

Stephanie Sugars (GloJo-International Relations 2018) has taken a position as full-time reporter at US Press Freedom Tracker.

Carol Schaeffer (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2017) has been awarded a Fulbright grant to further her work on the alt-right in Europe.

Lauren Kaori Gurley (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) shared honors with NYU New York and Nation’s Claire Tighe to win the Amnesty International US Student Journalism Award for their reporting for the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo on this story: “Official Reports of Violence Against Women in Puerto Rico Unreliable After Hurricane Maria.” Lauren is a full-time reporter at the New Republic.

Tim O’Donnell (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) is working at The Week.

Simone Somekh (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2018) has taken a news associate position on the New York bureau of the Associated Press. In the summer of 2017, he interned for the agency in Rome.

News from the GloJo Class of 2015: Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies) has joined the staff of ProPublica on its visual investigations team. Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies), who writes for such publications as the Nation and New Republic, is also the US correspondent for the Committee to Protect JournalistsKavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies) starts as a staff reporter at the Tampa Bay Tribune next month. And Agence France Presse transferred Maggy Donaldson (French Studies) from Washington DC to New York City and named her its US music reporter.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) – has moved from her senior editorial positions at the Huffington Post to the Deputy West Coast Editor at the Guardian.

Prianka Srinivasan (GloJo-International Relations 2017) has accepted a position in Melbourne as a reporter on ABC‘s Pacific News Desk (as in Australian Broadcasting Corp.), likely aided by her freelance work for the network from New Caledonia.

Julia Furlan (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has moved from supervising producer of the Buzzfeed Audio PodSquad to NPR in New York City, where she is rotating through a number of national shows produced on site.

Uruguay’s Film Critics Association named the documentary of Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), “La Flor de la Vida” best documentary of 2018.

Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) has joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times, in its Washington DC bureau, covering immigration, following staff positions, since graduation, at Foreign Policy, Defense One, and the Huffington Post.

Kate Drew (GloJo-International Relations 2016) has moved on from her post as senior editor at Business Insider’s BI Intelligence to become Fintech Research Manager at Grant Thornton LLP.

Emily Corona (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2019) is at Futuro Media Group this spring as a digital intern, working with NPR’s Latino USA and Latino Rebels, both of which carry the daily newsletter and enterprise of our Latin American News DIspatch, for which Emily served as chief editor last fall, succeeded for 2019-20 by Colleen Connolly and Alanna Elder (both GloJo-Latin American Studies 2020.)

Jessica Rohan (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2019) is interning at the Philadelphia Inquirer this spring.

Anna Pazos (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) is interned with the BBC in New York in the fall and now joins the New York Times Licensing Group, formerly the New York Times Syndicate, for a spring internship.

Joy McKinley (GloJo-International Relations 2019) is at NBC’s New York Live! this spring.

Leo Schwartz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2020) is interning at Roads and Kingdoms.

2018

Ayenat Mersie (GloJo-International Relations 2018), who was awarded an NABJ-Reuters fellowship for Spring 2018, has joined Reuters full time in New York as Commodities Correspondent covering sugar, coffee and cocoa. Over the past eight months at the news agency, she has covered oil markets, producer hedging, soft commodities and biofuels and worked on several data projects.

Alessa Mann (GloJo-Africana Studies 2019) has been interning at Roads and Kingdoms this fall.

Joseph Zeballos-Roig (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019), who interned at CBS’s Sixty Minutes, is interning this fall at WNYC for “The Takeaway.”

Ilaria Parogni (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) has been promoted to the position of associate editor at the New York Times Syndicate, now called the NYT Licensing Group, where she’s been working since graduation.

Joy McKinley (GloJo-International Relations 2019) is interning this spring at NBC’s “New York Live.”

Anna Pasoz (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) signed on for a spring internship at the NYT Licensing Group after completing one in the fall at the BBC in its New York City bureau..

Lauren Gurley (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) has taken a reporter-research position at the New Republic.

Ben Dalton (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2018) is working part-time at Buzzfeed.

Jesse Coburn (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2016) has a new beat at Newsday: from Babylon to the town of Hempstead, the country’s largest.

Nikki Galteland (GloJo-International Relations 2018) has a summer internship on the health beat at WNYC before heading to Dubai.

Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008), a staff writer at the New Yorker, was a 2017 Abe Foundation Fellow.

Jessica Salley (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2018) won a Fulbright Research Grant to return to Cyprus for a year of more work on her master’s project topic.

Simone Somekh (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2018) has a 2018 summer position with the Associated Press in Rome and Stephen Groves (GloJo-International Relations 2019), back from thesis reporting in Nepal and the Emirates, is with the wire service’s bureau in New York City.

Nidia Bautista (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) has a summer post at the New York Times Syndicate, where Ilaria Parogni (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) has worked full-time since graduation.

Anna Pazos (GloJo-European Mediterranean Studies 2019) won a 2018 FASPE journalism fellowship to study ethics at Auschwitz.

Tamerra Griffin (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is now the East Africa correspondent for Buzzfeed World.

Tim O’Donnell (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) has been interning this spring at The Week.

Philip Yiannopoulos (GloJo-International Relations 2019) has a spring internship at WNYC.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), of the Washington Post, won a “Feddie” Feb. 15 from the National Press Foundation for his reporting with two colleagues on the MS-13.

Dusty Christensen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016), after a post-graduation stint at WNYC, has been on the staff of the Daily Hampshire Gazette since February of 2017.

Danielle Mackey (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2015) has been named a senior fellow of the “Newsroom Without Walls” of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting’s collaboration with the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Ford Foundation.

Stephen Groves (GloJo-International Relations 2019) has been awarded a GIJN fellowship to attend its conference in Amman in February and will be interning in New York City this summer with the Associated Press.

Esmé Montgomery (GloJo-International Relations 2017) is a full-time political and diplomatic consultant for BLJ Worldwide.

Anna Pazos (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2019) has been awarded a 2018 FASPE scholarship.

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) reports that he has been awarded a Stigler Center Journalist Residency this spring at the University of Chicago, while continuing to report for the Committee to Protect Journalists on the situation in the United States — a new watchpoint this year for this important nonprofit organization.

Katie Schlechter (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2017), based in Mexico since graduation last May, was awarded International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship to report from Guatemala, starting in February.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015), follows up her fellowship at Foreign Policy with a move to ProPublica as a senior reporting fellow.

Sara Afzal (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) has taken a job at MSNBC as a digital producer.

Nigar Hacizade (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2017) has taken a position at Dataminr, where Chris Looft (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) has been since graduation and now holds the position of manager.

After eight years at Reuters, Emily Flitter (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2007) has joined the New York Times to cover banking. Read this laudatory Times‘ announcement about her career to date.

Jamiles Lartey (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) informs us that the Guardian, where he has been since before graduation, is moving him to New Orleans to, as he puts it, “take on a remote version of my role with the Guardian US that will allow me to dig deeper into issues of race, justice and inequality in the US South.”

Jamiles’s reassignment reminds us to note that Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) was moved last year to Austin for the Huffington Post to cover developments along the US-Mexico border and other national news. Jesselyn Cook (GloJo-International Relations 2019) has managed to keep up with her master’s degree while continuing to work full-time at the publication.

Simone Somekh (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2018) is interning at Tabletmag this spring.

Philip Yiannopoulos (GloJo-International Relations 2018) is interning this spring at WNYC’s On the Media.

Steven Cohen and Emily Corona (both GloJo-Latin American Studies 2019) are interning this spring with the New York Times Syndicate, where Ilaria Parogni (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) is on the full-time editorial staff.

Tim O’Donnell (GloJo-International Relations 2019) interned at The Week.

2017

Kyle Walker (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2017) moved to Seward, Alaska, with his new bride, a physician, and became a full-time reporter for the Seward Journal.

Stephen Groves (GloJo-International Relations 2019) interned this fall at CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS , where Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012) is an associate producer.

Trey Strange (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2019) interned this fall CNBC Special Reports.

Katie Schlechter (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2017) has been awarded a French-American Foundation’s Journalism Immigration Award for 2017.

More job news: Clare Church (GloJo-International Relations 2017) is a research officer and issues expert for the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Sabahat Zakariya (GLoJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017) has become deputy editor of Lahore’s The News On Sunday. Mariam Elba (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016), having completed her internship at the Nation, has taken a full-time position as fact-checker at the Intercept. She also is co-editor for Egypt and North Africa for Muftah and covers grassroots initiatives for the publication. Layla Quran (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017), after summer internship in Amman for the AP and a spring internship at WNYC, is now on the foreign desk at PBS News Hour. Rachel Leah Klein (GloJo-Africana Studies 2017), on return from yet another summer in Ghana, started full time this fall at Salon . Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) via Senegal and Haiti for Reuters, is headed to Washington, DC, for the wire service; Clare Busch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017) begins her Fulbright in Turkey in September; Sara Afzal (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) is a digital producer at CNN, Prianka Srinivasan (GloJo-International Relations 2017) has started in DC for the Human Rights Campaign.

Recently caught up with Tom Finn (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014), who has been reporting full-time for Reuters from Doha since the year after graduation after a stint with Mideast Eye. Deganit Perez (GloJo-International Relations 2016) is a video and web editor for NuovoEN. Nadeen Shaker (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) has become an associate editor at The Cairo Review, the global affairs and pubic policy journal of the American University of Cairo. Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015) and Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) both are recent recipients of IWMF reporting grants. Kavitha for Rwanda and Kenya and Molly for Mexico. Both have reported for Foreign Policy. Molly as a full-time reporter and Kavitha, as a 2016-17 fellow.

Prianka Srinivasan (GloJo-International Relations 2017) is interning this spring at First Look Media, working on a new podcast about immigration called “Maeve in America.”

Sabahat Zakariya (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017) interned for JUS24/7, a television channel aimed at the Punjabi Indian diaspora before returning to Pakistan.

Esmé Montgomery (GloJo-International Relations 2017) interned at the BBC World Service in New York City this spring and took a full-time position with BLJ Worldwide.

Clare Church (GloJo-International Relations 2017) is at ProPublica on an investigative project team.

Rachel Leah Klein (GloJo-Africana Studies 2017) is interning at Salon.com this spring.

Natasha Bluth (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2017) is interning at World Policy Journal.

Jessica Salley (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2018) is a multimedia intern on NBC’s national team.

Nigar Hacizade (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2017) is interning at the New York Times Syndicate.

Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) has won an Award for Excellence in Reporting on “Breaking Stereotypes in Migration Reporting” from the International Labor Organization.

Jesse Coburn (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2016) has started as a staff reporter for Newsday, covering Babylon. He had the summer 2016 Mary J. Corey internship at the Baltimore Sun and is an Overseas Press Club Scholar. In early February, he presented his thesis research on abandoned East German housing projects that have become home to the influx of migrants ( which had been published in part by Foreign Policy ), at a conference at the Columbia University School of Architecture, titled The Spatial Impact of Forced Migration. In the summer of 2015, he interned with the New York Times bureau in Berlin and did reporting for the Metro Desk in New York in the spring of 2016.

Layla Quran (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017), has a spring internship with WNYC.

2016

Lauren Gurley (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2018) received an Equal Voice Journalism Fellowship Award from the Marguerite Casey Foundation, resulting in this fine work from West Virginia for In These Times.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011), after a stint as community editor for News Deeply, returns to the Huffington Post, where she was World Editor, but this time she’ll be based in the company’s San Francisco Bureau.

Natalie Shure (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2014) is back as a story producer for the second season of TruTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything.”

Sara Afzal (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) has joined CNN‘s new news app team to develop mobile content as a Mobile Producer.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) and Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015), on a team with Laura Flynn and Beenish Ahmed, won the 2016 award for EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM in radio/audio from the Northern California Society for Professional Journalists for their piece for from Morocco, “Invisible Workers: Laboring in the Shadows,” for “Making Conctact. They were commended for their excellent use of sound and descriptive writing. Thalia and Maggy were also part of the Global Beat team which, from the same reporting trip to Morocco, took second place for their work for PBS News Hour in the Religion News Association’s 2016 awards for Enterprise Reporting about Religion.

Natalie Rinn (GloJo-French Studies 2012) is the executive editor of Brooklyn Magazine.

Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations 2013) joined the staff of Business Insider as Innovation Editor. Kate Drew (GloJo-International Relations 2016) is an editor at the publication, too.

Carol Schaeffer (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2017) has a fall internship at WNYC.

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi placed third in the 2016 Religious News Association awards for News Analysis on a Religion topic.

Nadeen Shaker (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) and Hanna Wallis (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2017) are part of the team (orchestrated by NYU Journalism’s graduate Studio 20: Digital First program, with which GloJo students routinely collaborate) that produced pieces for a “NYC Values” package that won the Student Journalism Award for Large Universities at Online News Association 2016.

Mireia Triguero-Roura (GloJo-International Relations 2016) has a full-time position at Salon.com.

Esmé Montgomery (GloJo-International Relations) has been awarded the Hugh Fulton Byas Memorial Scholarship to help complete her studies.

Carmen Cuesta Roca (GloJo-French Studies 2016) has taken a web editor position with Agence France Presse in Washington, DC, joining Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015), who is a news editor with the agency in the city.

The National Association of Black Journalists honored Jamiles Lartey (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) as “Emerging Journalist of the Year” for his work on police brutality at the Guardian.

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists awarded Professor Mohamad Bazzi first place in its 2016 awards for online columns and blogs.

Kat Thornton (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) and Jesse Coburn (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2016) produced pieces for this series, which won an Award of Excellence from the College Photographer of the Year competition.

Zehra Rehman (GloJo-international Relations 2016) has accepted a research position with Ark Media. Zehra presented on her thesis research at McGill University in Montreal in February at the “Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Health,” a meeting called to prepare a proposal for the United Nations. Zehra’s project centers on the high rate of suicide among indigenous Canadians and was published in full by Buzzfeed LongForm.

Camila Osorio (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) has joined the staff of the New Yorker in the fact-checking department, preceded by Yasmine Al-Sayyad (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015), who joined the magazine last year.

Ilaria Parogni (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016), after a spring internship with the company, has joined the staff of the New York Times News Services and Syndicate.

Lynn Edmonds (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) has become an investigator with the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Deganit Perez (GloJo-International Relations 2016) has joined the staff of UN Radio for the summer. In the spring she interned with UNDP, based in New York, but with a Paris foray in December 2015.

Layla Quran (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017) has the AP internship in Amman, Jordan for Summer 2016. She had a spring internship with Al Jazeera English and won a $5,000 Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights for her summer thesis reporting.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) has left her post as World Editor of the Huffington Post to become Community Editor for News Deeply.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015), after a year producing and narrating great pieces NPR/WNYC’s The Takeaway, was awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright Young Professional Journalists Program fellowship in Germany.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015) has been awarded a 2016 fellowship with Foreign Policy fellowship in Washington, DC.

Mariam Elba (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) has accepted the Democracy Now! social media internship for 2016-17. She interned in the spring with POV Productions.

Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) has become a news editor in the Washington, D.C. bureau of Agence France Presse. As a student, Maggy interned for the AP in Paris and did subsequent stints shortly after graduation at The Guardian and ABC News.

Christopher Looft (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) has joined the full-time staff of Dataminer.

Tom Brant (GloJo-French Studies 2016) moved to San Francisco full-time for PC Magazine.

Katie Whittaker (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2016), after a Spring internship with Saveur , is now full-time at the magazine.

Esmé Montgomery (GloJo-International Relations 2017) has won a scholarship from International House at Columbia University, where she will be living next year. This past spring, she interned for the UK publication, Living North.

Jessica Eise (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has her first book out: The Communications Scarcity in Agriculture.

Katharina Kempf (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2014) has been presented with a “New York Times College Scholarship Teachers Who Make A Difference Award, nominated by one of these student scholarship winners.” She teaches Spanish and Latin American History at Bard High School Early College Queens.

Carmen Cuesta Roca (GloJo-French Studies 2016), after producing multimedia packages for UN Radio in the spring and for NPR’s “Planet Money” last fall, has accepted a full-time position with Musonomics.com.

Rachel Klein (GloJo-Africana Studies 2017) is interning at Mass Appeal and writing under her pen name, Rachel Leah. She is in Ghana for the summer as assistant to summer program director Frankie Edozien and doing thesis research.

Clare Church (GloJo-International Relations 2017) interned with the public affairs documentary firm, Ark Media in the spring, doing research for historical and political documentaries intended for PBS.

Clare Busch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2017) interned in the spring for the magazine, Women Across Frontiers.

Natasha Bluth (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2017), Dusty Christensen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016), and Daniel Hoffman (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2017) spent spring break in Ukraine on a reporting trip with Prof. Jason Maloney‘s Global Beat class, selected for their reporting savvy and relevant language skills. (Dusty was in the Peace Corps in Ukraine before coming to NYU.) They all stayed on for further reporting of their own after the group project for PBS “News Hour.”

Mari Hayman (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) joined the staff of the Huffington Post as a news editor in New York City. Her GloJo mate, Grace Maalouf (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012), holds a similar post based out of Los Angeles and Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) is a HuffPo National Reporter, whose focus, not surprisingly, is Latino and Latin American issues.

Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International relations 2011) moved from Atlantic’s DefenseOne to a new position at Foreign Policy.

Nadeen Shaker (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) had a spring internship in the New York news bureau of CNN.

Anna Kim (GloJo-International Relations 2014) is a Global Health Communications Officer for the International Rescue Committee.

2015

Jared Malsin (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) was named Mideast Bureau Chief for Time magazine.

Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) and Yasmine Al-Sayyad (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) have been drafted by ABC News to work during the post-Paris attack news rush.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015) have been awarded a transAtlantic Media Fellowship on Migration & Integration and Digital Societies from the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and have gone to Germany to further their migration reporting.

Katie Whittaker (GloJo-International Relations 2016), in Greece all summer reporting for her thesis, has been helping out at the Reuters bureau doing fiscal crisis reaction.

Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations 2013) just checked in to report that she’s at Time Out NY, where she manages the front section of the magazine and the blog.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015), Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015), and Peter D’Amato (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2014) all have been chosen to participate in the Berlin Capital Program of the German-American Fulbright Commission.

The Latin American Studies Association honored Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) at its international congress in Puerto Rico for his reporting on Latin America and Hispanic politics, highlighting his work on the Central American migration crisis as one of the “few critical voices” challenging both the Obama administration and GOP talking points while contextualizing the U.S. role in causing the crisis.

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) is in a staff writer position at Vice, where he has freelanced often. He started at the end of June.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015) has taken a video position with CNN Money. She interned in Fall 2014 with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and Storyhunter and the Associated Press Rome bureau in between.

Nadeen Shaker and Alex Kane (both GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) has won 2015 Deadline Club scholarships.

Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) has moved on from the French-American Foundation, where he had been since graduation, to the UN Alliance of Civilizations where he has taken on the organization’s Media and Migration portfolio along with new initiatives. So far he has focused his research on hate speech and the use of technology in migration reporting.

Mel Bailey (GloJo-French Studies 2014) is a digital specialist on the Africa54 team for VOA, based in Dakar, Senegal.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) has been promoted to deputy editor of Tablet magazine, where she was worked in a variety of editorial positions since graduation, most recently as senior editor, responsible for its new blog, “The Scroll.”

The Fund for Investigative Journalism has offered support for the thesis project of Camila Osorio (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) in her native Colombia.

Jamiles Lartey (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) will be working full-time with The Guardian on a long-term project tracking police violence.

Maggie Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) has a Paris bureau internship this summer with the AP.

Jesse Coburn (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2016) is interning this summer with the New York Times bureau in Berlin.

Lauren Morton (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is an associate producer at CNN, working on the Ashleigh Banfield show and New Day Weekend.

Sara Afzal (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) is a content curator at Facebook.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), after five years of award-winning reporting at Miami New Times, joins the staff of the Washington Post.

Bailey Wolff (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) has been awarded a Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace to cover all the expenses of the Middlebury summer language program.

Makini Brice‘s (GloJo-French Studies 2015) OPC Flora Lewis Fellowship will take her to Senegal this summer to work in the Reuters bureau.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) and Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) traveled to Morocco in March with the Bureau of International Reporting to report for several outlets.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Medterranean Studies 2015) and Danielle Mackey (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2015) traveled to Brussels at the end of March on a European Union study trip.

Christopher Looft (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) is interning this spring at New York Magazine.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011), who has been climbing up the ranks of Tablet since graduation, has been promoted to the position of senior editor, responsible for the onine magazine’s new blog, “The Scroll.”

Tamerra Griffin (GloJ–Africana Studies 2014) is a news assistant at Buzzfeed.

Mireia Triguero-Roura (GloJo-International Relations 2016) is interning this spring at Public Books and will intern this summer with Al Jazeera in Kuala Lumpur.

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) and Peter D’Amato (GloJo Latin American Studies 2014) are at the New York Times Syndicate this spring.

Christopher Looft (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) is interning this spring at New York Magazine.

Sally Lynn Edmonds (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) has accepted a spring internship with MSNBC show, NOW with Alex Wagner.

Nicki Fleischner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) is interning with NACLA.

Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2012) celebrates her first year anniversary as a writer for Today.com, the website of NBC’s Today show.

Irina Vukosavic (GloJo-European-Mediterranean Studies 2016) and Carmen Cuesta Rocca (GloJo-French Studies 2016) have joined the staff of NYMag.com’s Bedford + Bowery, produced at NYU Journalism.

Natalie Shure (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2014) is now the World News writer for a new site, Blouin News, where she will be writing about foreign policy.

Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) has won an Overseas Press Club scholarship for 2015, as did Tom Finn (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014, now at the London-based Middle East Eye) and Michael E. Miller, who covers the Caribbean and Miami vice for The Miami New Times.

Nadeen Shaker (GLoJo-Near Eastern Studies 2016) is a Gallatin Global Fellow for 2015 and will be interning at the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights.

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) has accepted a spring internship with The Nation, where Dusty Christiansen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) interned in Spring 2014–just before his admission to GloJo–and Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011), now a correspondent for Atlantic.com’s DefenseOne, interned as a student in the Spring of 2011.

Yasmine Al-Sayyad (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) spent the summer and fall of 2014 as a junior research with the UNDP, the UN Development Program.

Bailey Wolff (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) is following the lead of Lynn Edmondds (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) this past semester and doing a spring internship at Psychology Today.

Jessica Eise (GloJo-International Relations 2012) is a departmental communications director at Purdue University.

2014

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012), who has been at the Baltimore Sun since graduation, has been assigned away from courts to cover intelligence and military issues.

Grace Maalouf (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) is a news editor at the Huffington Post.

Lynn Edmonds (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) has a fall internship at Psychology Today .

Sara Afzal (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) has accepted a position starting mid-November as a communications assisant at ProPublica.

Mel Bailey (GLoJo-French Studies 2014) has been hired by Voice of America to join its West Africa team as a digital media specialist.

Tom Finn (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) has accepted a London-based full-time position with Middle East Eye.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011), now based in San Francisco, has been promoted to Senior World Editor of the Huffington Post.

Jamiles Lartey (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) has a fall internship with the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC.

Michael E. MIller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), a senior writer at New Times Miami, has won the Emerging Writer award at the Mayborn conference.

Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) after significant stints with Atlantic’s The Wire and before that, Slate, joined the general assignment newsdesk of the Washington Post to “generate digital enterprise and provide coverage of ongoing stories.”

Michael Lee (GloJo-East Asian Studies 2014) has taken a position in the gaming universe of Digital Trends.

Matthieu Aikins (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) won two major awards this year for his reporting for Rolling Stone from Afghanistan: The George Polk Award for Magazine Writing and the Medill Courage in Journalism Award.

Anna Kim (GloJo-International Relations 2014) is now a communications officer with the International Rescue Committee.

Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations 2013) is working at Time Out, editing the blog and the front section of the magazine.

Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) has joined the Atlantic Companies DefenseOne as its first political reporter.

Julia Furlan (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is Buzzfeed’s Audio Editor.

Lauren Morton (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) has been hired full-time as an editorial assistant for CNN New York, where she interned this past spring.

Molly O’Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) spoke to a Carnegie Council audience about her prime reporting subject area, veterans, in a presentation called “The Invisible Casulaties of America’s Longest Wars.”

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) was recently featured in Newsweek, cooking her way through the classical Puerto Rican repertoire with health-conscious updates.

Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) is reporting this spring as an intern at City Limits.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European Mediterranean Studies 2015), Mel Bailey (GloJo-French Studies 2014) and Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) all went to Senegal to report over spring break with the Bureau for International Reporting, led by Prof. Jason Maloney, and this is the segment they produced for PBS News Hour on the children obliged to beg all day as a traditionally accepted part of their Koranic study. It aired 2 May 2014.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) has been hired as a production assistant at Storycorps.

Samantha Balaban (GLoJo-Latin American Studies 2014) has been hired as a production assistant at NPR‘s Morning Edition.

Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), for the second year running, has won the Sigma Delta Chi awardfor his article for Miami New Times about a murderous male porn star. He is a senior reporter at the paper.

Anna Callaghan (GloJo-International Relations 2014) is on a six-month fellowship at Outside magazine.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Mediterranean Studies 2015) has accepted an offer to intern this summer at the AP in Rome.

Matthieu Aikins (GloJo-graduated Near Eastern Studies 2011) has won a 2014 George Polk Award for his reporting from Afghanistan for Rolling Stone.

Anna Kim (GloJo-International Relations 2014) is interning this spring at the New York Times syndicate.

Rosario Yori and Katharina Kempf (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2014) both presented on their research at the Latin American Student Association’s annual conference in Austin.

Natalie Shure (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2014) spent March in Siberia working on collaborative journalism with the U.S.-Russia Social Expertise Exchange.

Anna Callaghan spent a week in Brussels in March with other American journalism students at the invitation of the European Union.

Sasha von Oldershausen (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) has taken an editorial position at The Real Deal.

Anna Kim (GloJo-International Relations 2013) is now a graduate research intern at Amnesty International USA.

Rosario Yori (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2014) has a spring internship at the New York Times syndicate.

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) has a spring intership with NYU- CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Lauren Morton (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is interning this spring at CNN‘s New York bureau.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European and Mediterranean Studies 2015), after a fall internship in her first semester with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, is moving to a start-up this spring called storyhunter.tv, a company that seeks to distribute high-quality international reporting in video.

Samantha Balaban (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2013) follows up her internship last summer with WBUR covering the Whitey Bulger trial, to take a similar position with NPR in Washington, D.C. with “Morning Edition.”

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) will intern this spring at the New York public radio affiliate, WNYC.

Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) will intern this spring at WNYC.

2013

Natalie Rinn, (GloJo-French Studies 2012) has taken a full-time position with VHX.tv, a firm that creates software and websites for filmmakers that enables them to sell directly to their audiences. She’ll be doing all the writing, social media and think pieces for the site.

Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010), former senior features writer for Metro-US, is now a features editor at the Chicago Tribune.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European and Mediterranean Studies 2015) is interning with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, keeping company with Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012), who is on the staff as a full-time PA.

Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian Slavic Studies 2012) is a news editor for the AOL/Huffington Post Media Group, working as a homepage editor for AOL.

Shahan Mufti (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009), whose first book, The Faithful Scribe, comes out Sept. 13, is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Richmond.

Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-International Relations 2013) has been promoted from a position to CBS This Morning to be assistant to the executive editor of CBS Sixty Minutes.

Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) is now a full-time staff writer at The Atlantic.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009 ) has won a Silver Baton DuPont award for her reporting from Syria.

Samantha Balaban (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2013) has a summer position at WBUR in Boston, starting soon.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-LatAM 2009), in his second Florida award of 2013, has been named “Journalist of the Year” in the Sunshine State Awards competiton of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Matthieu Aikins (GloJo-finished Near Eastern Studies 2011) is 2013 a Livingston Awards finalist in the international reporting category.

Clint Rainey (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) has taken a job as assistant editor at New York Magazine.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-LatAM 2009) has won a major award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his story on one of the bloodiest operations ever by Miami-Dada police. SPJ http://www.spjvideo.org/sdx/sdx12/deadline-reporting-nd.pdf

Nicole Disser is doing a spring internship at Vice.

Mari Hayman (GloJo-LatAm 2010) is associate editor of Americas Quarterly, where she also writes.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) was promoted from associate editor to the new World Editor of the Huffington Post.

Shirin Barghi (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) reports that she has been interning for the past six months at the Huffington Post along side recent alumni and permanent staffers Eline Gordts (Near Eastern Studies), Roque Planas (Latin American Studies) and Molly O’Toole (International Relations). She also writes regularly for The Guardian and has a bylined chapter in a recently published book, Beyond Zuccotti Park, in which she compares and contrasts Occupy Wall Street with the Iran’s popular uprising.

Elizabeth Shim (GloJo-East Asian Studies 2014) will intern Summer 2013 at the Associated Press in Seoul.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) since January has been a Beirut-based Producer for NPR.

Natalie Shure (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2014) has won a FASPE fellowship to travel to Germany and Poland in summer 2013.

Mel Baily (GloJo – French Studies 2014) is research assistant to Lisa Armstrong for her award-winning project on sexual violence in Haiti.

Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012) in February accepted a full-time position at CNN as PA for Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Tom Finn’s H.L. Stevenson fellowship from the Overseas Press Club (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) will take him to Reuters’ Cairo bureau this summer. Here is the announcement –with photos. (Tom is on the right.)

C.C. Glenn (GloJo-French Studies 2011), has put her deep interest in food to work as Raleigh Metro Magazine‘s goumet columnist.

Hania Mourtada’s (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) byline is appearing regularly in the New York Times with a Beirut dateline.

Katie Cella (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) has been invited to spend a week at the European Union in Brussels, learning about EU foreign policy vis a vis the Middle East and to gain a better understanding of the EU’s role in the region.

Anna Callaghan (GloJo-International Relatons 2014) has accepted a summer 2013 internship with the Reporting Project in Sarajevo, focusing on organized crime and corruption. Anna won a $5000 Global Fellowship in Human Rights from NYU’s Gallatin School, which led to this assignment.

Tamerra Griffin (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is interning this winter at Ebony.

Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-International Relations 2013) is interning this winter at CBS 60 Minutes.

2012

Tom Finn (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2014) has won an Overseas Press Club scholarship for 2013.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has won the Florida Press Club‘s Lucy Morgan Award for In-Depth Reporting plus a First Place Prize for public safety coverage.

Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) has moved from Fox Latino to Huffington Post Latino Voices, joining his classmates Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) and Molly O’Toole (GloJo-IR 2011), who are full-time at Huffpost.

Dana Varinsky and Sasha von Oldershausen took internships this fall at the NYTimes.com Local East Village and reported hard on the aftermath of Megastorm Sandy, among other news.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) has received a Special Recognition Rpeorting Award from the Anna Lindh Foundation for her reporting on Syria and will accept the award Oct. 18 in Berlin.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) has gone from intern to editorial assistant to editor of Jewcy.com to full-time staff writer, all for Tablet magazine.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012), following his summer stint as a Washington-based reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has taken a full-time reporting position at the Baltimore Sun. (And, July 19, he got married.)

Summer Class of 2013 Thesis Reporting Roundup: Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-Latin American Studies) is in interviewing sources in Argentina, where she has been all summer; Katie Cella (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies), preceded her internship at Foreign Policy with a month in the UAE, interviewing for her thesis; Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations) is working sources in Panama City; Sasha von Oldershausen (Glojo-Near Eastern Studies) heads to Iran at the end of her internship with Huffington Post – World; and Jared Malsin (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies) worked an intensive course in Arabic into his summer reporting foray to Cairo, where he has been since May. Fatima Malik (GloJo-NearEastern Studies) is scouring rural Sindh in Pakistan and meeting in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad with sources.

Shamira Muhammad (GloJo-Africana Studies 2011) has moved to France24 in Paris, where she is a freelance assistant producer and researcher.

Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2012) was a production assistant – with credit line – on Prof. Jason Maloney’s recent documentary on Cambodia for PBS.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has won the Ed Diamond Award for graduate students, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s singular top student honor, for 2012.

Katie Cella (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) is interning and writing regularly this summer for Foreign Policy.

Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-International Relations 2013) will be interning at the Council on Foreign Relations this summer.

Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) has been a Slatest writer for Slate all spring. She interned at Slate last fall.

Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012) follows up her experiences during two terms as an intern on the investigative unit at CBS News and last summer at The Graphic in Accra, Ghana, with a turn at ABC’s World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has been placed at the Los Angeles Times for his Washington Center for Politics & Journalism fellowship, where he is publishing regularly.

Sasha von Oldershausen (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) has accepted an internship position on the World Desk at the Huffington Post, starting April 1, where Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) is associate World Editor.

Natalie Rinn (GloJo-French Studies 2012) will be visitng the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels at the invitation of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) is working as blog editor and manager of Guantanamo Memory Project, which sseeks to build public awareness of the long history of the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo, Bay, Cuba, and foster dialogue on its future and the policies it shapes. She designed, launched and writes and edits for the site.

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.