George Clooney on Murrow and Journalism
December 15, 2005
George Clooney, Grant Heslov and David Strathairn visit NYU and discuss Edward R. Murrow, Good Night and Good Luck, and what journalism can do.
New Faculty, New Chair
December 08, 2005
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
November 01, 2005
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
September 01, 2005
The Fall 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.
SERP Speakers
July 01, 2005
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.
Big in Japan!
July 01, 2005
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.
2005 New York Press Club Award
June 01, 2005
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.
Greetings from Russia! - Summer 2005
June 01, 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.
Pete Hamill Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
May 01, 2005
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.