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"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.




"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.




"A Free Ride for the Straight Talk Express?"

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.


Interview-Two Iraq Documentaries

An interview on the difficulties of reporting with cameras in Iraq with Omer Salih and Marcela Gaviria:

  • Omer Salih, Iraqi Doctor turned filmmaker of "Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone," recently on HBO, winner of International Current Affairs Emmy. The film depicts the life of doctors and patients amid the daily violence during the peak of violence in 2006.
  • Marcela Gaviria: producer of "Gangs of Iraq," for Frontline. The film unearths the facts behind the US strategy in Iraq.


New Docs 2008

This year's graduate film festival showcases the diversity of our students. The stories range from the Bronx's homeless gay youth and a community organization called Petrobronx to bedbugs invading the entire city; from the role of Pakistani women, the inspiration of an assassinated leader in Lebanon to the problem of AIDs in the Dominican Republic and child labor in Ghana; from mail order brides, prisoner rights and Asbury Park decay to the disappearing fishermen in Chesapeake Bay.

View the flyer with films and summaries »




"G Train Riders to MTA: Give Us Some V Cars! MTA to G Train Riders: No"

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


"Mohels Give Non-Jewish Babies a Slice of Tradition"

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.


"NYU going green?"

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


NYC Mosaic

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!


"Musharraf's Monster"

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.

Street Level: Fall 2007

Street Level is a magazine about the many places and people that make up New York City and its environs. The stories are reported and written by undergraduate students from the department, and edited by professors Pete Hamill and Alyssa Katz. Check out the Fall 2007 issue.

Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, The Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror"

Read Between the Lines, a collection of essays co-edited by GloJo student Toufik Haddad on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.


NYU Tonight

Watch NYU Tonight—written, produced and broadcast by students of the Journalism Department. News from Washington Square to Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Baghdad, Kabul... wherever it's happening. Plus Sports, Arts and Entertainment, and commentary.

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Behind the (Intern) Scenes at GMA

Undergraduate Paulina Bucko (and her co-intern) wrote and produced this segment to wrap up their Good Morning America Weekend internship for the summer — check out a day in the life of an ABCNews intern.



Blogs We Like

Prof. Patrick Phillips, editor & founder of I Want Media, had his undergraduate class track down some of the people behind their favorite weblogs and find out how they really work.

Check out some of their favorites in Blogs We Like.




"Will Cambodian food ever catch on in America?"

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.




"Big Girls, Don't Cry"

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.




"The Habitat of the Human Freak"

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.


Brusslin' and Hustlin'

Graduate student Amy Van Vechten, in the department's Global & Joint Studies Program (Journalism and Contemporary French Studies in her case) reports from her summer beat in Brussels, covering the European Union, European Parliament, European Commission and... well everything EU.



"Black Culture Beyond Hip-Hop"

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.


New Docs 2007 - Panel Discussion

This year's graduate film festival again showcases the world: seven of the stories were produced in Africa, the Philipines, Egypt and Japan. A Chinese student reported in New York. A Japanese, Greek and two American students reported in Ghana as part of our Summer in Ghana Journalism Program where students studied for 3 1/2 weeks and then stayed on to report for another 2-4 weeks.

View the flyer with films and summaries »




Iraqi Student/Doctor/Journalist: Ali Fadhil

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.


"Turkmenbashi rules from beyond the grave"

Grad student Deirdre Tynan reports from the police state of Turkmenistan. The reign of Turkmenbashi the Great (as the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov demanded to be called) can still be felt everywhere, from gilded statues to fuel subsidies to a heavy police state. Editor's Choice in the Daily Telegraph.


NYU Livewire

Some who've lived through hard times don't trust the supermarkets, the global markets or their own purchasing power. So they store food at home. Could they be on to something? Read the story at NYU Livewire, the journalism department's biweekly feature syndicate.




"The French Military in Africa"

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.





NYC Pavement Pieces: Stories from the Streets of NYC

The city is a maze of neighborhoods, rich with stories. Overseen by Professor Yvonne Latty, NYU Journalism's grad students mine the streets in a journalistic exploration of its dynamic issues, events, and people.



"An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless"

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.



"We'll Always Have Soccer"

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.


"The Orange Grove: Liberals should fear federal health care"

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

Grad student Conor Friedersdorf writes for the Orange County Register.




"Veteran Political Reporters Discuss New Technology—And How It's Changed Their Work—Since 1970s"

Undergraduate Andrew J. Nusca gets published in Editor & Publisher, and looks at the massive changes in technology and ways of producing journalism since the 1970's and how veteran policital reporters have coped (or not) with the changes. Nusca developed the piece in Prof. Joe Cutbirth's "CAMPAIGNS 2006" course.


"Spring Creep"

Sabine Heinlein (a Portfolio student) investigates municipal dumping in Spring Creek Park, Brooklyn, NY for the December 2006/January 2007 issue of The Brooklyn Rail.



New York Investigations

Three undergraduates in Prof. Joe Calderone's New York Investigations class examined health department restaurant inspections for some 70 eateries and dining halls on or near NYU. In addition to examining hundreds of documents, in some cases going back three years, the students interviewed health department officials, restaurant owners, patrons and outside food industry experts. Their findings have been turned into a three-part series in the Washington Square News.



"Bitten By The Google Spider"

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


BER Business Times

A bi-weekly Webzine written, edited, and produced by the graduate students in New York University's Business & Economic Reporting Program, BER Business Times serves up news, commentary, and in-depth features on business and personal finance. The scope of its coverage stretches from NYU's student-run investment club to a vast new oil find in the Gulf of Mexico, from an environmentally innovative approach to timber investments to the pros and cons of pet insurance. And much more.

Election 2006

NYU journalism students' coverage of Election 2006 examines the smaller, personal stories underlying the election's larger, headline-grabbing issues.

Read Election 2006 »


NYU Journalism in Ghana

During the spring semester of 2006, the NYU in Ghana Program included four undergraduate journalism students. They teamed with sixteen Ghanaian University of Legon graduate students in the course Reporting II and produced several stories over the semester on topics that ranged from politics to health and education.

Check out writing, photos and video from the trip at Africa House.



"Where the Postman Always Honks Twice"

"For nearly two months, roughly 75,000 residents of East Harlem have not had a post office. Instead, they have a van."

Graduate student Laura Rivera reports on the "Post Office on Wheels" standing in (sporadically) for the real thing in East Harlem, for The New York Times.


"Defenseless"

Saddled with huge caseloads and low budgets, public defenders often have to give their clients -- the city's poorest citizens -- legal representation on the fly. It's just one part of a broken system.

Grad student Vi Landry's cover story for the New Orleans' Gambit Weekly Sep. 5, 2006 edition investigates the broken local criminal justice system in New Orleans.


"Iraq's Endangered Journalists"

"If our government continues to be dominated by militias, then in just a few months no news will be reported from Iraq at all."

Graduate student Ali Fadhil describes the deteriorating conditions for journalists in Iraq for The New York Times. Fadhil has worked for National Public Radio, Guardian Films and The New Yorker in Iraq and is a Fulbright scholar at New York University.

Scienceline: The Shortest Distance Between You and Science

Written and produced by grad students in the department's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, Scienceline covers everything science: breaking news and in-depth features about everything from local New York phenomena to worldwide issues, profiles of scientists, environmental investigations, and even movie reviews. With more to come!

Check out Scienceline »


Greetings from Russia, Summer 2006 Edition

NYU Journalism grad students Amy Becker and Ruthie Ackerman report from Rostov, Russia, where they're participating in the fourth year of the Russian-American Journalism Institute, teaching workshops and learning along with 14 Russian student journalists.

Follow along at RAJI: On Location in Rostov, Russia (Year 4), a weblog of updates and anecdotes covering a Russian supermodel pageant, a piercing festival, and the more mundane but no less important everyday activities of living and practicing journalism in Russia.


"A Chance to Honor Our Best Ambassadors"

"We must do more to remember the dead American soldiers whose sacrifice forever binds us to Europe."

BER student Jonathan Keehner writes in Newsweek's May 29, 2006 issue about American soldiers killed in Europe and the new and ongoing efforts to remember not only their sacrifices but also the deep ties that bind America and Europe.

In Response: NYU Journalism in Houston

Soon after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Prof. David Dent's undergraduate honors reporting class went to Houston to cover the after effects of the disaster. This half hour report includes student reactions to their experience plus some of their reports.

VIDEO (30 min, RealPlayer)

Undocumented

Undocumented was created by a group of New York University graduate journalism students in conjunction with OpenDemocracy.net, a global media forum on democracy and human rights based in London. Its goal is to raise awareness about the conditions of undocumented people, and put forth a critical analysis of the issues. The articles probe aspects ranging from labor and education, to economics.

"Lip Gloss"

David Marchese (a Portfolio student) reviews the latest release from the Acid-eating Okies, the Flaming Lips, in the March 30, 2006 issue of the Village Voice.

The review is also available on the Department's "Best of Portfolio" site, here.

Blue Plate Special

A PressThink spin-off, produced by NYU Journalism students and Prof. Jay Rosen (joined by a few special guests, pros and amateurs), Blue Plate Special offers fresh intelligence about the fast-moving developments in the Net-meets-journalism world. Good information and multiple perspectives on a single theme—for now, that is the formula for a Blue Plate Special.



We Want Media

They say that they're still fans of television news, print magazines and other "old" media. But the blog is the topic du jour and an obvious platform in which to analyze all types of media in this age of ever-expanding communications. What do we like -- and not like -- in print, online and on the air? We aim to explore our dynamic media world via We Want Media.



Annotate

Professor Adam L. Penenberg's WRR2 class blogs on various topics—both in the spotlight and out—digging and following up on what they find.

Read Annotate »



The 2006 Graduate Film Festival

The 2005 graduate students took their cameras worldwide to capture stories and events on an international scale—Bosnia, Switzerland, England, France, India, Pakistan, China, Japan—and of course the United States.

Topics range from the difficulties in returning to war-torn areas and integrating immigrant populations to American students traveling to France and NYC high schoolers learning to Samba; life and relations in India and Pakistan, to the travails of successful women in China and explosion of hip hop in traditional Japan.

The screenings are free, and each piece will be followed by a question and answer period with the filmmaker. Join us, Saturday Jan. 28, 2006!

View films and summaries »

The Washington Square News also covered the Festival: "Grad film festival presents world view".

"Onward Into the Audioscape"

David Marchese (a Portfolio student) grabs the lead music review for the January 11, 2006 issue of the Village Voice, giving a listen to the Strokes' third LP, First Impressions of Earth.

The review is also available on the Department's "Best of Portfolio" site, here.

Read "Onward Into the Audioscape" »



NYU Tonight's 2005 Election Coverage

Students cover multiple campaigns, including the race for Mayor of New York City between incumbent Michael Bloomberg and Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer.

Originally broadcast on Nov. 8:

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Best of Portfolio

The graduate-level Portfolio program brings young journalists together to harness their passions and ideas and develop a cohesive, thematically related body of work. Each year a selection of some of the best published work by students in the program is featured in Best of Portfolio.

Read Best of Portfolio »



Bullpen

Working writers swapping hard-won wisdom about the art and craft of journalism: That's what Bullpen is all about. At NYU, some of journalism's most important names drop by to discuss their work and debate the media issues of the day. To document their appearances, Professor Mark Dery and a staff of student writers launched Bullpen in fall 2004, as a resource for NYU students, Department faculty, and anyone interested in journalism and the newsmedia. Read more...


PressEthic

Reading between the lines and unspinning the spin, Professor Adam L. Penenberg's Press Ethics class blogs on the hottest media topics of the day -- from exploring ethical gray zones to corporate ownership of media to the future of citizen journalism. PressEthic weaves media criticism with the new wave of self-publishing to bring you fresh, original and sometimes controversial viewpoints from the new wave of journalism education.

Read PressEthic »


Theory B

Alternative energy and personal finance. Entrepreneurship and small business. Labor pains and intellectual property. Customer service, the airline industry, and marketing gastronomy.

Produced by Professor Adam Penenberg's Business & Economic Reporting graduate students, Theory B is not only a class blog that combines rigorous reporting with a deft writerly touch, it is part of the new wave in journalism education — combining self-publishing with the art of covering a beat.

Read Theory B »



Not a Blog

Students in the Spring 2005 digital journalism class of Patrick Phillips, editor & founder of I Want Media, explore online journalism and even blogging in This Is Not a Blog.

Read it »



Washington Square Review

In January a murder on a Lower East Side street garned national headlines. The Spring 2005 Advanced Honors Reporting Class went beyond the headlines to examine the underlying factors that contributed to the fatal encounter.

Read WSR »



The 2005 Graduate Film Festival

Religion, rehab, prison, labor, politics, development, bikers & children. This year's films look at how people strive to improve their lives and communities; in and out of prison, across religions, across stereotypes, and within themselves.

The screenings are free, and each piece will be followed by a question and answer period with the filmmaker. Join us, Jan. 22, 2005!

View films and summaries »
 



Rostov-on-Don

In southern Russia the new entrepreneurs are enjoying their profits while others struggle to adapt to the new way of life. Produced as part of the Russian-American Journalism Institute—a joint program of Rostov State University, New York University and Ithaca College, 2003.

More stories and photos from Rostov are at RAJI: On Location in Rostov, Russia.



NYU Tonight's 2004 Election Coverage

Students reported live from election parties around the city, with interviews of campaign volunteers in Ohio and reports from student journalists in Florida and Chicago. They covered immigrant groups around the city as well as stories on the key issues of the campaign, with live updates every ten minutes.

Click here to watch the archive.

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Recount

Recount: A Magazine of Contemporary Politics is a weekly online magazine produced by the NYU graduate journalism program. Writers will ground timely political issues in feature stories and news analyses written from both local and national perspectives. The magazine will initially focus on the 2004 presidential campaign; but as the political landscape changes, the magazine will reorient its content accordingly. Read more...



New Yorkers Who Run Things

James Traub, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, challenged the Spring 2004 Porfolio students to profile New Yorkers "who run things" and then critiqued the stories they produced. Read the work in VIP.



Hooking Up

Are our civil liberties being quietly violated, online? Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, comes with a sneaky feature that just might make Big Brother's job a little easier.

Also in ReadMe issue 4.5: iPod jacking, the new Gen Whatever trend; Plagiarism made easy, thanks to search engines. And: Africa to Bill Gates: Log off.

ReadMe: New Media. Net Culture. Now.
Read more...



The 2004 Graduate Film Festival

This year's films once again capture a variety of events in our world, such as Chechen rebels and the people caught in between, Somalians working in Buffalo, an invasion of Eurasian Watermilfoil, and our own NY Subway turning 100 this year.

Please join us in this free viewing. A question and answer period will follow each piece.

View schedule and film summaries »




NYU Tonight Special - NYU Reflects: Community and Loss

A look at university life in New York City by our undergraduate students.

In-studio guests:
William Long, CAS Dean
Paul Grayson, Director of Counseling Services
Panel of NYU Student Leaders

Featuring: Hold On by Good Charlotte.

NYU Reflects: Community and Loss can be seen in archived format.

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Street Level - Atlantic Avenue

Zooming in on one New York City street at a time, Street Level talks about the quotidian and the quirky, the personal and the global, and gets down to the urban experience.

Enter Street Level...



The 2003 Graduate Film Festival

The 2002 graduate broadcast students took their cameras worldwide to capture stories and events on an international scale. From the AIDS epidemic in Africa to the asthma problems of Harlem, from religious security to marital infidelity, these works delve into issues rarely touched by modern media. View schedule and film summaries »




Blowing Smoke

Launched on December 11, 2002, the day that New York city officials agreed on the terms of an agreement that would ban smoking in nearly every bar, club and restaurant in Manhattan, Smoke Ring is a student webzine, produced entirely by Professor Jessica O'Brien's digital journalism class. The site offers an in-depth look at the culture war swirling around smoking, with articles on the legality of buying tax-free cigarettes online, the most effective methods of quitting, and the constitutionality of NYC-style bans.
Read more...



What We See: 9/11/02

Watch the events of September 11th 2002 through the eyes and lenses of NYU broadcast graduate students as they return to the stories they covered last year. See the students and their city a year later as they struggle to reflect on what they learned. See What We Saw and See What We See on Crosswalks, Ch 74 Nov 18, 7-8 pm and repeated on Tuesday, Nov 19, 11-12pm. This is the premiere of our relationship with Crosswalks. Each week either a produced program of NYU broadcast journalism students will be featured or a talk by a guest to the department.

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Election 2002

NYU graduate and undergraduate broadcast students are teaming up to produce live coverage of Election 2002. Reporters will be at the election headquarters of the gubernatorial and senatorial candidates. In addition, NYU commentary on national and local races will feature special reports on the Hispanic vote, the death of the Liberal Party, the Lautenberg/Forrester campaigns and New York Governor George Pataki's support for gay rights. Coverage begins at 9 P.M. EST.

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The Terror and How We're Coping

On September 12, 2001, Professor Marcia Rock gathered graduate and undergraduate students to cover the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Students went to ground zero and interviewed volunteers, residents and rescue personnel. They also covered the effect on NYU from the streets being shut down, to displaced students to coping with the trauma. They did a story on alumni who were covering the story, the spontaneous gatherings at Union Square and the Candlelight Vigil in Washington Square Park. All of the stories, plus an emotional interview with NYU president Jay Oliva and others were put together into this hour newscast. Watch...

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Ripples

On September 11th, the students in Professor Jessica O'Brien's "Online Reporting" class were starting their first session when word of the attack on the World Trade Center hit. In Ripples, their in-class webzine, Professor O'Brien's class explores the attack's impact on the NYU community, New York City and beyond. Read more...



She Got Game

In Spring 2001, Professor Brooke Kroeger's undergraduate "Advanced Reporting" and Professor Jonathan Lackman's graduate "Online Magazine Workshop" classes took a look at the world of today's female athletes. Women in Sports: Thirty years after Title IX examines the far-from-level playing field still faced by female athletes, despite the ground they've gained since 1972, when the trailblazing amendment became law. Read more...



Diversity or Division?

In Spring 2000, undergraduate and graduate students from seven classes tackled the topics of race and class in America, at the turn of the millennium. The result: a provocative online magazine packed with features, photos and links to online resources. Check out more than 30 articles on hot-button issues, including education, crime, poverty and violence. Read more...



Turning Inward: Ethnic Tensions in Russia

In June 1999, NYU's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media awarded a grant to six NYU graduate journalism students to produce a documentary examining ethnic discrimination in Russia. New immigrants from the country's southern regions are routinely victimized in racially motivated attacks. Ethnic Russians say that these immigrants are born different, that they are criminals and should not be allowed in the country. The 28-minute documentary produced by NYU broadcast journalism students explores disparate perspectives on a common problem: formerly equal citizens who find themselves suddenly at odds.



Dark Passage

In 1999, NYU hosted a conference devoted to the past, present and—disturbingly—future of slavery. This spring 1999 online magazine, a companion to the conference, takes a sobering look at the history and horror of three-and-a-half centuries of African bondage in the Western Hemisphere. Read more...



 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
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