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.
Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has 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.
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 includes $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.
