Obituary

James Matthews (Studio 20 '10) on Monica Madariaga.

"The master of Spin Boldak"

Matthieu Akins (GloJo-Near East '11) with the Afghan border police.

Alumna Erica Westley (SHERP/Portfolio '08) on Gary McKinnon.

Prof. David Samuels with Judith Miller on the Palestinian diaspora in Arab countries.

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi on Syria and the Arab political order.

Prof. David Samuels in The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi on a season in the cheap seats at the new Yankee Stadium.

James Matthews (Studio 20 '10) on e-commerce in Spain.

Stephanie Soechtig (B.A. '98) is a contender for the 2010 Academy Award for her documentary, Tapped.

Prof. David Samuels profiles ex-MI6 spymaster Alastair Crooke.

Prof. Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney's iPhone Passion.

Matthieu Aikins (GloJo-NearEast '11) reports from Afghanistan.

Tess Taylor (Mag/Portfolio '03) on poets Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick.

Adam Penenberg on Viral Loops.

Prof. Jason Samuels on "Detroit's Drop Out Schools."

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi on how Ahmadinejad's tactics play.

Simon Constable (BER '07) anchors Wall Street Journal's new daily online broadcast, "The News Hub."

Viva of Jordan features the master's work of Charity Tooze (GloJo-International Relations '10).

Port Townscend film festival features Prof. Marcia Rock's "Salt Harvesters."

Prof. Michael Norman on the Bataan Death March.

Ethan Brown (CRC '97) on murder in New Orleans.

Prof. Prof. Mohamad Bazzi on Hezbollah.

Prof. Alyssa Katz investigates housing speculators, in the September 2009 edition of The American Prospect.

Prof. Jason Samuels on "Detroit's Drop Out Schools."

CRC director Susie Linfield weighs in on the Israel-Palestine conflict and takes issue with the "one-state" solution.

Kathryn Joyce (CRC '04) on shotgun adoption.

Prof. Thomas Lueck in a new collection.

Prof. Prof. Mohamad Bazzi on Iran.

Prof. Meryl Gordon reviews a new memoir.

CRC alum Judy Berman ('09) explores secular spirituality in the music of bands such as Animal Collective and Neutral Milk Hotel.

Matthew Fishbane, (Magazine/Portfolio '08) on El Cocuy National Park in Colombia.

Prof. Meryl Gordon on the Astor trial.

Prof. Katie Roiphe on Gay Talese.

Prof. Jill Dearman on great editing.

Simon Constable, (BER '07) had the "most-viewed" video July 30 on wsj.com.

CRC alumna Jana Prikryl assesses documentary photographer Helen Levitt.

Prof. Perri Klass counsels an overweight child.

AFRICA DISPATCH 2009

While totally immersing themselves in West Africa culture as part of various reporting and writing projects, participants in the Summer 2009 Africa Dispatch uncovered a treasure trove of feature stories along the way. From the elation that soccer conjures, to the frenzied affection for Barack Obama and even elaborate crafting of coffins. Here is a selection of some of those stories along with photographs and some video.

Margaret Wheeler Johnson, (CRC, '09) on the renaissance of manual labor.

Prof. Frank Flaherty on storytelling.

Prof. Adam Penenberg on Amazon's Kindle.

Benjamin Popper, (Magazine/Portfolio, '09) on investing in "life settlements."

Prof. Katie Roiphe reviews Cristina Nehring's A Vindication of Love.

Sarah Garland (GloJo-LatAm '04) knows gangs.

Distinguished Writer in Residence Paul Berman on Gabriel García Márquez.

CRC alumna Jana Prikryl on the Milan Kundera scandal and the ghosts of Czech history, in the June 8, 2009 edition of The Nation

An interview with Kathleen Collins (MA '96), who writes about the evolution of TV Cooking Shows.

Benjamin Peim, on Ladino - a medieval language thriving in Brooklyn..

Karen Yi (Print '10) on immigration policy.

By Michael Norman

Prof. Michael Norman on the Bataan Death March.

The New York Times Memorial Day Op-Article: "The Memorial of the Mind"

Prof. Dean Olsher meditates on crosswords.

Prof. David Samuels from Lebanon.

David Randall (Mag '07) on life after Wall Street.

Sarah Garland (GloJo-LatAm ’04) on gangs.

CRC alumnus David Marchese (CRC '06) writes the cover story of April 2009's issue of Spin magazine.

Prof. Perri Klass on the perception that boys need special lessons in manners.

David Puner (Magazine / Portfolio '05) writes about the debate over climate change in this online edition of GOOD magazine.

Diana Eng Brings Her Hi-Tech Designs to the Masses With Her Book Fashion Geek. By Ben Popper, Portfolio/Magazine 2009.

By Alyssa Katz

Prof. Alyssa Katz on the real estate obsession.

Spring issue bylines of Prof. Ted Conover and Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-LatAm 2008)

Prof. Alyssa Katz on the trouble with mortgage

Grad student Carla Usher was the host and interviewer of Stern Professor Joseph Foudy and Executive Director of the Wasserman Center, Trudy Seitfeld on the NYU Tonight broadcast, February 24, 2008.

Kathryn Joyce's book (CRC '04) on the Christian right.

Prof. Dennis Lim in The New York Times the Berlin Film Festival.

Ben Popper (Magazine Writing/Portfolio '08) on software that's revolutionizing importing.

Prof. Perri Klass in The New York Times on when to keep a child home sick

Shahan Mufti(GloJo-Near East '08) on military equipment shopping in Pakistan.

By Pamela Newkirk

Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first century, from slavery to the war in Iraq.

Professor Pamela Newkirk is an associate professor of journalism at New York University.

Prof. Perri Klass in The New England Journal of Medicine on the medical problems related to fast food.

Charly Wilder (CRC '09) on Moroccan-born entrepreneur Aziz Senni. She also wrote and produced the accompanying video for The International Herald Tribune, December 26, 2008.

Prof. Robert S. Boynton reviews Gwen Ifill's book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, for The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Prof. Perri Klass in The New York Times on the importance of teaching manners to children.

Matthew Fishbane (Magazine Writing/Portfolio '07) on The Bones of Mendihuaca.

Jason Boog (Magazine/Portfolio 2003) on The Military-Toy-Industrial Complex and his Mediabistro blog.

Ian Daly (Magazine-Portfolio 2003) on the poet Jeffrey Miller.

Jesse Sunenblick (Mag-Portfolio 2003) profiles Dan Rather

Prof. David Samuels on a trucker who built atom bombs.

Professor David Samuels on a trucker who built atom bombs in The New Yorker.

Prof. David Samuels on mixed martial arts fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson

Professor David Samuels on a mixed martial arts fighter in The Atlantic.

Prof. Charles Seife on the Minnesota recount.

Prof. Barbara Borst interviews journalists from Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa about the challenges of reporting on turmoil in their countries and the role they see for the news media in building democracy, in the NYU online journal Perspectives on Global Issues.

Prof. Suketu Mehta on the Mumbai attacks in The New York Times and The Guardian.

Steven Bertoni (BER '08) on Billionaire Sex Scandals.

A website on new approaches to journalism education produced by Professor Mitchell Stephens and former graduate student Sarah J. Hart supported by a Carnegie-Knight grant through the Kennedy School.

Prof. Jay Rosen and Ariana Huffington thank the 12,000 who got "Off the Bus".

Prof. Perri Klass in The New York Times on how to treat a baby with a fever.

Alumna Polya Lesova (Magazine '06) with video on Thailand's economy.

SHERP students on carbon and the candidates

Magazine Writing student Julie Sobel in culture11.com

Carole E. Lee (Magazine '01) on evangelical voters

Mike Miller (GloJo'09) in Newsweek International on the innocent lives caught up in Mexico's ongoing drug war

Prof. David Samuels in The New Republic On how Ralph Ellison explains Barack Obama.

"Levine in Winter"

Prof. David Margolick on renowned caricaturist David Levine

"For four decades, David Levine’s acid-tipped portraits of everyone from Castro to Cheney gave The New York Review of Books its visual punch. Now that the greatest caricaturist of the late 20th century is going blind, is he owed more than a fond farewell?

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi in The New York Times Magazine on violence on the streets of Lebanon

Prof. David Kushner writes about the dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, PA .

"Watchdogs, Lapdogs, and Attack Dogs,"

Reported and written by students in Professor Mark Dery's undergraduate course in press criticism, "Watchdogs, Lapdogs, and Attack Dogs," turns a critical eye on the news media.

Arcynta Ali Childs (Glojo '08) on the battle over Langston Hughes's House.

Prof. Frankie Edozien's report is supported by the Project for International Health Journalism Fellowship Program as part of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Media Fellowships Program.

Magazine Writing Prof. Meryl Gordon investigates the hidden betrayals of a family beyond reproach in Mrs. Astor Regrets, being published this fall by Houghton Mifflin.

Prof. Charles Seife, of the Institute's Science & Environmental Reporting Program, examines fusion energy's messy history in his new book.

Professor David Samuels on New York's Jews in New York Magazine.

Prof. Pete Hamill returns home to find that everything, and nothing, has changed.

Michael Miller (Glojo '09) on escalating violence in Bolivia for Newsweek.

Arcynta Ali Childs (Glojo '08) on the battle over Langston Hughes's House.

Elizabeth McNamara (Mag '08) takes a look at what's on the breakfast table of some famous politicians and the journalists who cover them.

Magazine/Portfolio alum Matthew Fishbane reports from Colombia in The Walrus with a piece on discovering graves of victims of paramilitary violence.

Gabriela Reardon (Glojo-Latin American Studies 2007) is back in City Limits with a piece on punishment without crime for the undocumented.

Alison Bowen (Glojo-Latin American Studies '10) covered both the Democratic and Republican national conventions for Women's E-News.

CRC graduate Ira Boudway discusses the evolution of the Walkmen and their new album, You & Me. New York Magazine, September 7, 2008.

SHERP/Portfolio grad Erica Westley's article on ethics, patient rights, and conflicts of interest in pediatrics appears in Columbia Magazine.

CRC alumnus and NYU teaching professional Dennis Lim speaks with actor Michelle Williams about life after longtime boyfriend Heath Ledger's death. The New York Times, September 4, 2008.

CRC professor Claudia Roth Pierpont explores the life of one of the Renaissance's most controversial figures: Machiavelli. The New Yorker, September 15, 2008.

Professor Perri Klass on medicine and baseball.

Current Magazine student Elizabeth McNamara rides the bus to D.C. for the Washington Post.

Fueling the future? The hunt for a sustainable biofuel

Magazine/Portfolio student Robynne Boyd's article appears in appears in the Earth Island Journal.

Professor Mary Quigley in Newsday on a remedy for the empty nest.

Professor Barbara Borst, who teaches international reporting to graduate and undergraduate students, wrote a feature story for The Associated Press on a village in western Kenya that two local women have helped rescue from the devastation of the AIDS epidemic. The AP story, which included 14 photos by the author, was picked up by The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, Newsweek, NPR, Yahoo, Google, AOL and others.

How medical marijuana is transforming the pot industry.

Professor David Samuels on medical marijuana in The New Yorker.

Professor Dan Fagin on air pollution's toll on children in Scientific American.

"Canadians Among Us!,"

CRC student Leigh Kamping-Carder's piece about the Canadian "Newest New Yorkers" appears in The New York Observer.

A website on new approaches to journalism education produced by Professor Mitchell Stephens and former graduate student Sarah J. Hart supported by a Carnegie-Knight grant through the Kennedy School.

CRC alumnus Thomas Rogers gauges the media's coverage of the Thomas Beatie pregnancy. Salon, July 3, 2008.

By the time Thomas Beatie, "the Pregnant Man," strode across Oprah Winfrey's stage on April 3, his story had already become a worldwide phenomenon. Beatie — a transgendered man who was born a woman and became pregnant through artificial insemination — had captured headlines, and worldwide attention.

CRC alumna Jana Prikryl looks at the poems of forgotten Scandinavian poet Henry Parland. The Poetry Foundation Online Journal.

The first thing to know about Henry Parland is that you're excused for never having heard of him. While he is a recurring name in books on Scandinavian literature, his death at 22, in 1930, ensured his eclipse. His work itself is defined by compression and jagged wit, qualities that — at least during the confessional half century following his passing — seem to lend dispatch to an already amputated oeuvre, and the scarcity of translation from the Swedish would appear to have sealed his literary fate. Yet by the time Parland died of scarlet fever, he was an important figure in Finland's active Swedish-speaking literary scene.

2008 NewsDoc alumni James West's new book from Penguin (Australia) and Cuttyhunk (US) US, on the year he spent as an exchange employee from Australia at China Radio International, exploring the Beijing tourists rarely encounter, from dancing on the Great Wall at a rave, to asking candid questions of budding entrepreneurs and successful business people by day and exploring China's new frontiers of bloggers, punk-rock dens and underground gay (tongzhi) and lesbian (lala) culture by night.

Prof. Perri Klass' new novel, The Mercy Rule.

The Mercy Rule is a novel about the all-important job of taking care of children. Lucy’s work takes her back into the world of families living on the edge, where every day she must decide whether a parent’s actions are so incompetent—or so clueless—that a child is in danger. It’s her job to make the call, and to step in when she has to. As she moves between her disparate worlds—from worrying about her own brilliant but odd son being labeled with a diagnosis to worrying about parents struggling with drugs and impossible living situations—Lucy must judge herself as a parent, critique other parents, and also deal with the echoes of her childhood.

In Far Rockaway, Pretty Beach Meets Housing Bust

Portfolio and Reporting New York student Matt Schwartzfeld tells the story of the Rockaway Peninsula's tortured development history in City Limits.

The Rockaway Peninsula's tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fated spec buildings disintegrating next to successful new housing development, and a rezoning belatedly attempting to instill order.

…and five other vexing medical-ethics dilemmas, examined.

Prof. Mark Dery on Scott McClellan in the Los Angeles Times

CRC alumna Lamar Clarkson reports on artists exploring innovative solutions to environmental problems. Art News, June 2008.

From recycling urine and testing algae to creating animal habitats and transforming landfills into parks, artists are finding novel and sometimes quirky ways to heal the world.

CRC Professor Katie Roiphe's most recent book has been published in paperback by The Dial Press.

Originally published in hardcover last June, Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which called it "vintage Roiphe: provocative, dishy, substantive and fun." Using biographical sketches of historic literary figures ranging from Rebecca West to Radclyffe Hall, the book probes our contemporary notions of attraction and affection. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Tina Brown declared it "the perfect bedside book for an age like our own, when everything is known and nothing is understood."

Dr. Perri Klass, professor of Journalism and Medicine, in the The Moral of the StoryNew England Journal of Medicine.

Prof. Michael Norman on remembrance in the Lives column of The New York Times Magazine.

CRC alumnus David Ng talks with the actor/director about his new stage work, based on the life of serial killer Jack Unterweger. Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2008.

The choreography of murder is a messy business. For Malkovich, it's an artistically challenging one as well. The actor is playing real-life Austrian serial killer and bestselling author Jack Unterweger in a world premiere production, "Seduction and Despair," scheduled to run this weekend at Barnum Hall Theatre in Santa Monica.

Malkovich is no one's idea of a conventional movie star, so it should come as little surprise that when working on stage he gravitates toward projects that are eccentric and potentially disturbing. "Seduction and Despair" is an unabashedly experimental work that combines elements of theater, opera and digital video art into what its creators hope will be a new artistic form.

"The Meat of the Matter,"

Magazine/Portfolio student Justine Sterling had her chat with a bloodthirsty carnivore in Saveur chosen as an article-of-the-week by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

CRC director Susie Linfield reviews the "Archive Fever" photography show. The Nation, May 5, 2008.

Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.

CRC Professor Katie Roiphe reviews Germaine Greer's Shakespeare's Wife. The New York Times Book Review, April 27, 2008.

The prevailing image of Ann Hathaway is that of an illiterate seductress who beguiled the young Shakespeare, conceived a child and ensnared him in a loveless union. Germaine Greer's task in her ingenious new book, "Shakespeare’s Wife," is to expose the construction of this fantasy, tracing its evolution from early biographers like Thomas de Quincey through the work of respected modern scholars like Stephen Greenblatt. "The Shakespeare wallahs," she writes, "have succeeded in creating a Bard in their own likeness, that is to say, incapable of relating to women."

Professor David Samuels has published a collection of his long-form narrative journalism and essays for Harper's and The New Yorker titled Only Love Can Break Your Heart.Critic Michael Washburn wrote in The New York Observer: "With an intelligence and unsparing lucidity reminiscent of Joan Didion's work circa Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Mr. Samuels has written some of the best long-form literary journalism of the past decade."

The collection, which has also received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, was published by The New Press along with The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue, an expanded version of Samuels' 2001 profile of Hogue in The New Yorker. Kirkus Reviews has called the book "a dizzying, exhilarating tale of deception, duplicity and the search for personal identity."

Professor James McBride's's book, Song Yet Sung looks to both the past and the future not only of the black community, but of America itself, as his story poses questions about the true meaning of freedom, redemption, and justice. His is a morally complicated world, in which people may be seen as black or white, but right choices often are not. Yet it is also a world in which the infinite human capacity for love transcends all else, including issues of race, identity, and conflict. Song Yet Sung will resonate powerfully for his legions of devoted fans and draw thousands of new readers of transfixing, touching, eloquently written fiction of consequence.

Professor Adam Penenberg leads Fast Company with a profile of Ning's founder.

CRC alumna Hailey Eber examines the vogue of lo-fi photography in the digital age. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Nonfiction: Weird America"

CRC alumnus Thomas Rogers reviews Gregory Gibson's new book, Hubert's Freaks. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Noise-Pop, Rachael Ray, and the Magic Box: SXSW 2008"

CRC alumnus John S.W. MacDonald crams 2,000 bands into four days at Austin's annual music festival. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Don't Hate the Nader, Hate the Game"

Current CRC student Charly Wilder reviews William Poundstone's latest book. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Just Another American Dreamer"

CRC student Vincent Rossmeier reviews and interviews writer David Samuels about his new book, The Runner. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Hobsbawm's Empire"

CRC student Leigh Kamping-Carder reviews the latest collection of essays from celebrated historian Eric Hobsbawm. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.

"Ballet as a Reality Show," "Diana Vishneva at City Center"

Current CRC student Margaret Fuhrer has two pieces on dance in the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail. In "Ballet as a Reality Show," she writes about a surprisingly well-attended open dress rehearsal held by the New York City Ballet, and in "Diana Vishneva at City Center," she reviews internationally renowned ballerina Diana Vishneva's foray into contemporary dance.

Long the domain of male performers, the drag scene has gradually given birth to a movement of women known as faux queens. Storming cabaret stages from coast to coast, these flamboyant females are seizing the fake lashes from their gay boyfriends, and proving that sisters are gluing it for themselves.

CRC alumna Evie Nagy reports on women who impersonate women. Bust, April/May 2008. The article was also edited by a CRC alumna, Priya Jain, who is the features editor at Bust.

CRC alumnus John MacDonald reviews the latest Sun Kil Moon record. The Village Voice, April 1, 2008

CRC student Vincent Rossmeir talks politics and media coverage with Paul Waldman, co-author of Free Ride: John McCain and the Media. Salon, April 4, 2008.

It was a tale of sex, violence and a young girl crossing the color line. It was raw, gripping, sad and triumphant, tracing the heroine's successful escape from an environment of abandonment, abuse, poverty and gangs. It was supposed to be true.

Not a word of it was.

Alumna Stacey Patton in The Washington Post on the Margaret Seltzer memoir hoax

Current CRC student Leigh Kamping-Carder writes about failing G train activism. The New York Observer, March 21, 2008

As infomercials move into mainstream TV, heed these tips to avoid scams.

Alumna Gergana Koleva writes about infomercial scams and how consumers can protect themselves from being hoodwinked by them. Dow Jones MarketWatch.com, January 21, 2008

CRC alumnus and NYU teaching professional Dennis Lim reports from the Berlin International Film Festival. The New York Times, February 16, 2008.

CRC alumna Kathryn Joyce looks at how U.S. religious right activists are seizing on immigration anxieties and falling "Western" birth rates in European countries as an opportunity to export U.S. culture war tactics abroad. The Nation, March 3, 2008.

CRC alumna Meline Toumani reports from Turkey on the Kurdish crisis and one man's attempt at multiculturalism. The New York Times Magazine, February 17, 2008.

INSIDE The Chelsea Hotel (Powerhouse Books) by acclaimed photographer and NYU Department of Journalism alumna Julia Calfee releases the end of March and promises a glimpse of the iconic Chelsea Hotel not seen before and not likely to be seen again.

That garden stone, handmade carpet or embroidered T-shirt you just bought was probably made by child labor.

Portfolio alumna Megha Bahree's report for Forbes on child labor in India.

True Stories: Prof. Ted Conover's foreword to the new book by Norman Sims, True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism (Medill Visions of the American Press, 2008). Prof. Conover also reviews Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Street, by Sudhir Venkatesh, in the February 4 edition of The Nation.

Prof. David Samuels has an account of George Bush's recent trip to Ramallah in the February 13th issue of The New Republic titled The Father of Palestine.

He also has a piece in the February issue of Men's Vogue about a trip he took with his old Jewish gangster uncle Myron to Ciudad del Este in Paraguay.

Prof. Robert S. Boynton looks at one of modern journalism's prohibitions. From the January/Februray 2008 issue of Columbia Journalism Review.

An influential religion struggles with how to tell the story of its past.

Prof. Mark Oppenheimer on Mitt Romney's run for the presidency and Mormonism's growing influence, in The Boston Globe.

Alumna Shomial Ahmad with an audio piece on an unlikely business: a North Texas butcher shop busy with orders for the Muslim holiday Eid ul Adha. First run on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.

Undergraduate Sarah Lynch reports on NYU's environmental efforts for CNN's "CNNU".

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi reports for The Nation on Muqtada al-Sadr's long view strategy and decision to go back to school -- to become an ayatollah, which would give him vast influence in Iraqi life.

CRC graduate student John MacDonald looks at the growing practice of non-Jews hiring mohels to circumcise their baby boys, for The Forward. The story was also discussed on The New York Times' well-known blog Freakonomics.

Where have all the nurses gone?

A shortened version of alum Barnaby Lo's documentary on the flight of medical professionals from the Phillipines is featured on the PBS Frontline "Rough Cut" site. Lo originally created the piece for the Advanced News and Documentary class at NYU, and it was part of the New Docs: The 2007 Graduate Film Festival.

Visiting Professor Dean Olsher discusses the transcendant properties of music on All Things Considered, December 14, 2007.

Rumor had it that a crocodile lived at JFK Airport — an anonymous source spilled the beans.

Alumna Sabine Heinlein searches the tropics of eastern Queens in the Dec 2007/Jan 2008 issue of The Brooklyn Rail.

Alumna Freda Moon reports on the tensions between cabbies and owners in the New Haven Advocate.

In pushing its free-trade pact with Colombia, the administration is arguing for an anchor of democracy and capitalism in an increasingly hostile region.

CRC and Portfolio alum Adam Graham-Silverman with a cover story in the December 3, 2007 issue of CQ Weekly. Download as PDF (570K)

NE Charter School Uses Innovative Program to Combat Teen Pregnancy

NYC Mosaic publishes original stories about immigrants — legal and undocumented — and immigrant life in New York City. The online news site is produced by New York University student reporters in the journalism course “Undocumented NY” with Professor Evelyn Hernández. Read it!

Inside one young man's quest to remain in New York City, rather than be returned to the violent setting he fled by foot nearly two years ago.

GLOJO alumna Gabriela Reardon in the November 26, 2007 City Limits.

A special report for MarketWatch from Portfolio alumna Polya Lesova looks at how military and political developments are affecting Turkey's economy and rising profile in world markets. The package consists of multiple articles and a video overview.

Alumni Dustin Roasa writes from Cambodia for The American Scholar, Autumn 2007.

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi in The Nation on Syria's ongoing jousting with the U.S.

Also see "U.S. must cut ties to Pakistan's dictator" in New Jersey's The Star-Ledger.

Faculty member Michael Norman this November reprises in an article (published in a special magazine by the Vietnam Veterans of America to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.) an introduction he wrote to The Wall: Images and Offerings from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Collins Publishers, 1987. The magazine was produced by the Boston Publishing Company. Download the PDF (3.4 MB).

Pakistan has been in turmoil for months, and its nascent television news industry has been following each twist and turn of the historical drama. But this weekend, President Musharraff announced he would put Pakistan's democracy on hold, and he is doing his best to put blinders on television news as well. He will have his hands full.

Portfolio student Shahan Mufti in the Columbia Journalism Review.

The British philosopher Antony Flew was one of the West's most influential nonbelievers. Then came news — from conservative Christians — that he had recanted. But his change of heart may not be what it seems.

Prof. Mark Oppenheimer in The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 4, 2007.

Why the home of a freed slave should be kept where it stands.

Alumna Stacey Patton's Op-Ed in The New York Times.

Yale vs. Roomba: The feud that fried a famous restaurant.

Alumna Freda Moon's cover story on the saga of a six-year property battle between two hard-working restaurateurs and the city's most important institution, Yale University. In the New Haven (Connecticut) Advocate.

All over the sprawling Salt Lake suburbs, the writing’s on the wall(s).

Portfolio alum Jonah Owen Lamb explores the wide world of "graf" in the suburbs of Salt Lake City for the Salt Lake City Weekly.

The story of how two women struggled to reconcile the passions of the historic 1957 desegregation in Little Rock — a remarkable journey through the last half century of race relations in America.

Prof. David Margolick in Vanity Fair.

Roberto Bolaño's great Latin American novel.

Prof. Paul Berman reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives for Slate.

The decline of the coverage of books isn't new, benign, or necessary

Professor Steve Wasserman with the cover story in the Sept / Oct 2007 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review.

"I may have grown up to be a foodie, but I still think fondly of Taco Bell and its mushy burritos and fast-food mission facades."

Professor Mark Dery on Taco Bell's place in American food and culture, in Salon.

Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?

Matthew Fleischer, a Portfolio alum, with the cover story for the August 22, 2007 issue of LA Weekly.

The Death of an Anarchist, the Murder of a Police Chief, and the Remaking of the European Left.

Prof. Paul Berman's latest piece in The New Republic.

"The elements for a new civil war are here. They are ready. But there are some red lines that prevent it from happening."

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi, in The Nation, reports from Beirut on the ongoing instability, hatred and tensions in Lebanon.

Professor Stephen D. Solomon's book, Ellery's Protest , was published in July 2007. It tells the story of the U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that organized prayer and Bible-reading in the public schools violated the First Amendment — an issue passionately argued today by Americans on the right and left.

"4,000 ultra-conservative, largely home-schooling Christians gathered to correct a month-old mistake: to do Jamestown right."

Alumna -- and Revealer editor -- Kathryn Joyce's Newsweek.com debut, a great piece about a fundamentalist celebration of Jamestown's 400th anniversary.

Thai restaurants are a dime a dozen, but 30 years after Pol Pot, Khmer cuisine is still hard to find in the U.S. Why hasn't it become the next big thing?

Portfolio student Matthew Fishbane investigates the cultural and historical dimensions behind a strange absence.

Professor Perri Klass offers her guidance, and her stories, to a new generation of doctors and readers in her latest book. (More information from the publisher.)

Professor Katie Roiphe's new book Uncommon Arrangements is reviewed by Tina Brown in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Dan Bell, a CRC alum from England looks at sharia law in the backstreets of Britain, and how Islamic courts are ruling on everything from banking and alcopops to forced marriage and divorce, in The Guardian's G2.

The fight for the right to be fat, queer, and proud.

Thomas Rogers, a CRC student, covers My Big Fat Queer Prom, a celebration of body size and sexuality, in The Village Voice. Thomas developed the piece in the Portfolio program.

In the June 2007 issue of The Brooklyn Rail, graduate student Brian Childs visits America's last sideshow, the Sideshow by the Seashore in Coney Island.

The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi in Salon on the war in Iraq's effects on Syria and the region.

Prof. Paul Berman with the June 4, 2007 cover story in The New Republic — a look at Tariq Ramadan, "a charismatic and energetic Islamic philosopher in Europe who has become popular and influential among various circles of European Muslims during the past fifteen years."

Over the past three decades black culture has grown so conflated with hip-hop culture that for most Americans under the age of 45, hip-hop culture is black culture. Except that it's not.

CRC graduate student Thomas Chatterton Williams on hip-hop's grip on black culture, in the Washington Post.

Some drugs approved to treat HIV may also protect people not infected with HIV if taken before they engage in high-risk activities. Then why has it been so difficult to conduct the necessary studies to prove—or disprove—the theory?

Portfolio alum Adam Graham-Silverman in the June 2007 issue of POZ.

Marlo Donald was kicked off Social Security for kicking someone almost 20 years ago. The bizarre tale of a "fugitive felon."

Alumna Freda Moon on the Social Security Administration's "Fugitive Felon Program," the cover story in the April 26, 2007 New Haven (Connecticut) Advocate.

A proposed power plant in Sevier County threatens a local lifestyle and the air all of us breathe.

Portfolio alum Jonah Owen Lamb on a local community's fight to keep a proposed power plant from being built in their valley, in the Salt Lake City Weekly.

The overwhelming majority of the military funerals...are for World War II veterans, a generation that is dying nationwide at the rate of 1,600 per day

David K. Randall on the U.S. Army's Honor Guard in The New York Times.

Condoleezza Rice's Moment: Behind the curtain with the secretary of state.

Professor David Samuels with the June 2007 cover story in The Atlantic. Also see the interview with Samuels where he discusses his travels with Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East.

How Americans' infatuation with masculinity has perilous consequences.

Professor Mark Dery's Op-Ed on the Imus flap and the wider picture in the Los Angeles Times.

Some of the country's top experts on "re-entry" share their thoughts on success for those who have served their time.

Alumna Sabine Heinlein in the April 23, 2007 City Limits.

Yes, I'm getting divorced. Yes, I have a child. No, I'm not falling apart. So why does everyone insist I must be?

Professor Katie Roiphe on life after divorce in the April 30, 2007 issue of New York Magazine.

"The one lesson I've learned from writing this book is that there is no such thing as cheap gas."

Professor Ted Conover reviews Lisa Margonelli's Oil on the Brain: Adventures From the Pump to the Pipeline for The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

"A New Calling"

In Afghanistan a private mobile phone company is wiring a devastated country—and daring to put women to work.

Portfolio alumna Megha Bahree reports from Afghanistan for Forbes.

The Miles for Smiles clinic delivers the dental care rural kids need — right to their doorstep.

Due to the low number of dentists in the state, Maine is considered to be an underserved state when it comes to oral hygiene. Alumna Melanie Brooks looks at one of the more interesting efforts to improve services, in the Bangor Metro.

Graduate student Ali Fadhil recently participated in two panel discussions focused on Iraq: "Assignment Iraq", presented by the Columbia Journalism Review; and "In Their Own Words" a panel of three Iraqis journalists, presented by the Overseas Press Club. Video footage of both events is online.

Fadhil has worked for National Public Radio, Guardian Films and The New Yorker in Iraq and is a Fulbright scholar at New York University. Before arriving in the U.S., he was a physician and translator in Iraq. He is currently working on an Iraq film that will be aired on PBS Frontline next year.

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 full press release.

Once the definitive voice on current events, network news fights to be heard over new media cacophony.

Alum David Puner looks at the dinosaurs of TV news and where things might be going, in GOOD Magazine, "media for people who give a damn."

Alum Dustin Roasa relates run-ins with the censors while working as a journalist in Vietnam, in the January/February 2007 issue of CJR.

New Haven's mayor wants to shut down five black neighborhood bars because they are "hot spots" for trouble. But crime data tell a different story.

Alumna Freda Moon on the complicated relations between crime, race and politics, in a cover story for the New Haven (Connecticut) Advocate.

Grad Tim Stelloh in The Advocate on the not unusual [anywhere] disagreements among tenants, landlords and the federal government in Norwalk, Connecticut.

To understand why the playground of Beirut has again become a battleground, look beyond the myth-making biographies of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Alumna Annia Ciezadlo writes for The Nation on the ongoing developments in Beirut two years after the assassination of Rafik Hariri. More of Annia's work can also be found on her website.

Andrew Hansen, a joint French Studies-Journalism graduate student produces a backgrounder on the French Military in Africa for the Council on Foreign Relations, ranging from its historical origins to current conflicts. The piece was also picked up by The New York Times.

"Lord of the Skies"

If you're doing business in Afghanistan, you need a powerful patron. Few people know this better than Zamarai Kamgar, president of the nation's first private airline, whose family has survived the British, the Soviets and the Taliban.

Portfolio alumna Megha Bahree reports from Afghanistan for Forbes.

Greenpoint's bums are a tragicomic reminder of the risks and temptations of the idle life. A life with plenty of time, a life without purpose, money, or hope.

Alumna Sabine Heinlein celebrates some of the less-celebrated residents of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in the February 2007 Brooklyn Rail.

This nation is a maze of cities, neighborhoods and communities rich with stories. Overseen by Professor Yvonne Latty, NYU Journalism's grad students mine the streets and dirt roads in a journalistic exploration of dynamic issues, events, and people.

With 16 huts cobbled together from plywood, discarded closet doors, and cardboard, Umoja is a Liberty City shantytown in the shadow of the biggest construction boom Miami has seen since the 1920s.

Graduate student Laura Rivera reports from Miami in The New York Times.

Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him.

Prof. Adam Penenberg profiles Jefferson Han, a research scientist working out of NYU's Courant Institute who just might have invented the computer interface of the future.

Arctic melting accelerates, revealing uncharted islands and threatening to raise sea levels all over the world.

Recent graduate John Collins Rudolf on signs of a warming earth in the Science Times section of The New York Times.

These dichotomies - athlete/intellectual, fierce fighter/ nurturer, Harvard-educated economist/African leader, technocrat/feminist - are what give Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf a unique perspective, both as the leader of Liberia and as the first democratically elected female head of state on the continent.

Alumna Ruthie Ackerman in The Christian Science Monitor.

Professor Mitchell Stephens discovers that though journalists worry about how the Web threatents the way they distribute their product, they are slower to see how it threatens the product itself. In the January/February 2007 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review.

We found out about my father's culture through his descriptions of the cancha, the sweet smell of chorizo and the blue and yellow that represented his home team. What he didn't speak of was the restless political ambiance and wavering economy. Like most Argentines, he spoke only of what he could always be proud.

Alejandra Serret's story for NYU Livewire was picked up by Worldpress, the former World Press Review.

Prof. Paul Berman on Pierre Vidal-Naquet, a French classics professor whose fervor for clarity and accuracy led him to intervene in political controversies of his own time, including torture by French forces in Algeria and Holocaust denial theories.

Additionally, Prof. Berman's frontpage Op-Ed (in Italian) from the Jan. 4, 2007 edition of Corriere della Sera on the execution of Saddam Hussein is available to download (420K PDF).

A landmark church hangs on as the old meets the new.

Alumna Melanie Brooks on a landmark church and the group of women who have kept it alive for decades, in New Jersey's The Star-Ledger.

Alumna Shomial Ahmad writes in Newsday on Christian Palestinians in Long Island, NY, and their connections to their "old" and "new" homes.

A government empowered to provide health care can also take it away.

Grad student Conor Friedersdorf writes for the Orange County Register.

Alumni Allen Salkin in The New York Times on the success, and questions raised, by "Dateline NBC" and the group they work with to track potential child predators online (and get big ratings).

Prof. Robert S. Boynton reviews The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, by Walter Benn Michaels for the December 25, 2006 issue of The Nation.

Graduate BER student Andy Greenberg reports on the online advertising wars, awash with victims and bigtime winners, in Forbes.com.

The renowned photographer's snapshots of her partner Susan Sontag and of her family, exhibited for the first time, are shocking in their intimacy -- but they should have stayed inside that shoe box.

Recent alumna Sarah Karnasiewicz in Salon.

Prof. Yvonne Latty's op-ed piece in USA Today looks at the number of African-American Marines that served on Iwo Jima in World War II, their numbers in the recent film Flags of Our Fathers, and what we might take from that.

"A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London—and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world."

Prof. Steven Johnson's new book The Ghost Map garners praise: the Wall Street Journal called it "marvelous" and "unputdownable" and the Seattle Times called it a "masterpiece of historical writing." Here's Prof. Johnson's announcement of the book, and a separate essay in the NY Times Sunday Book Review on Google's increasing influence on ideas and their distribution and lifespan, "Own Your Own Words".

Prof. Mark Dery on the transcendance of the Space Age and where and what it left us, in the November/December 2006 Utne Reader.

A handful of new schools charge up to $140,000 a year to educate an autistic child. Who can pay that much? Anyone with the right lawyer.

Prof. Alyssa Katz on the intersection of autism, New York City and the business of publicly funded education, in New York Magazine.

Peru's Amazon rain forest is one of the last true frontiers on earth—and a thrilling place for an adventure. Just be prepared to cross paths with howler monkeys, 200-foot trees, and a tarantula or two.

Professor Ted Conover takes the family to the Amazon rain forest in Peru, and lives to tell about it in the cover story of the October 2006 Travel + Leisure.