2024 Year in Review
Looking back at the achievements of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff.
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute had a great year!
During a big news year, our students and faculty covered the U.S election and world events. Our faculty published award-winning books and launched major projects, including acclaimed podcasts and documentaries. Our students received numerous awards — the Student Academy Award, Student Emmys, and several Hearst Awards. Our students were also published in nearly 100 different publications.
Our students were published at a wide range of outlets — including local New York papers, travel magazines, literary journals, podcasts, and international newspapers and magazines.
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Students were published more than 95 times this year.
Al Jazeera
amNY
Amsterdam News
Antigravity
AsAmNews
Back Pack
Boston Globe
Brooklyn Paper
Business Insider
Canary Media
Central Desi
Climbing
Conde Nast Traveler
Container
Cosmopolitan
Ecologist
Electric Lit
Foreign Policy
Forward
Grist
Health Central
HellGate
Hyperallergic
IG Net
Inside Climate News
Intersect
Italy Segreta
Jezebel
McSweeney’s
Mountain Gazette
Mother Jones
Ms.
National Geographic
Nature
New Lines Magazine
Newsweek
New York State Music
NPR
Our Town Downtown
Out Here Podcast
Paste
People Magazine
Pitchfork
Queens Daily Eagle
Reuters Institute
Rolling Stone
Rumpus
Salon
San Francisco Gate
Salon
Science
Sentient
Spotlight PA
Slate
Technical.ly
Teen Vogue
Texas Monthly
TBR Newsmedia
The Creative Independent
The Guardian
The Intercept
The Nation
The New Arab
The New Humanitarian
The New York Times
The Telegraph
The Times
The Village Sun
The Washington Post
The Wave
Thrillist
Time
TimeOut New York
Undark
Van Magazine
Vulture
Our students and alumni won prestigious awards.
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Emmy nods: In April 2024, NewsDoc alum Giorgio Ghiotto won the Nonfiction Series student Emmy for his documentary, Wings of Dust. Newsdoc students Rishabh Jain and Crispin Kerr-Dineen were nominated for Best Nonfiction Series at the 2025 College Television Awards for their respective works, A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness) and Shattered Expectations.
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Undergraduate students won Hearst Awards: David Cheung (13th Place, Hearst Multimedia Enterprise), Stacia Datskovska (13th Place, Profile Writing), Pablo Ocariz Gimenez (14th Place, Sports Writing)
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NewsDoc students have won Student Academy Awards since 2007. Rishabh Jain (NewsDoc 2023) won this year.
Students
Franky Dean and Ke Chen (NewsDoc) were longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Award.
Qingyue Zheng (NewsDoc) won the IFG Best Impact Potential second prize at CNEX Chinese Doc Forum ‘24.
Tamar Baruch (NewsDoc) won the IDA David Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Lina Savage and Lauren Schneider (SHERP) were awarded Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowships by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Tehsin Pala (GloJo) won NYU’s Threesis Audience Choice Award for her thesis “Precautionary Emigration of Indian Muslims from India.”
Alumni
SHERP’s class of 2023 was awarded first prize for a single-issue student magazine — for Scienceline for Kids —in the SPJ’s nationwide Mark of Excellence contest.
Jesse Coburn (GloJo-EurMed 2016) won the Polk Award for Local Reporting.
Hannah Beckler (GloJo 2019) won the 2024 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.
Lynn Harmann (AJO 2024) won the New York Press Association Award.
Calli McMurray and Gina Jiménez-Rios (SHERP 2023) won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Madhumita Murgia’s (SHERP 2011) book on AI was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.
Bobby Brier (AJO 2021) won the Report for America Local News Award.
Brian Bull (AJO 2022) won two first place awards at this year’s annual Indigenous Media Awards.
.. Just to name a few. Congratulations to all our Alumni who won awards for their work this year!
From Pennsylvania to Chiang Mai, our students traveled across the world to cover stories on the ground, in real time.
2024 Election Coverage
- Business and Economic Reporting students traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, before the 2024 presidential election for the project “48 Hours in Electric City.”
- Reporting New York, Reporting the Nation students covered the election from Robeson, North Carolina.
- American Journalism Online students covered the election from communities around the nation.
- Graduate and undergraduate students also aired a live broadcast on election night with NYU Now.
International Stories
- Students traveled to Thailand for this year’s GlobalBeat class, taught by Professor Jason Maloney. They covered politics, freedom of expression, sports, migration, and the environment.
- Business and Economic Reporting students went to London, where they spoke with experts about the UK’s post-Brexit economic landscape, the evolving media industry, and the political climate.
- GloJo students reported from Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Papua New Guinea, and Minnesota.
The 7th Floor Commons was home to events featuring some of the top voices in the industry.
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Discussions and workshops featuring journalists from The News York Times, the Paris Review, The New Yorker, Semafor, Time, The Markup, Slate, This American Life, Planet Money, and more.
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Career events: Two networking events with 100+ attendees each, 15 info sessions with recruiters from top media organizations, and five workshops with editors focused on pitching and freelancing.
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Student events, including graduation parties, film screenings, thesis presentations, student showcases, and mixers.
Our faculty made significant contributions to their respective fields this year.
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Faculty work was published in 20+ top publications. Faculty also made appearances on television, podcasts, and were quoted in the work of their colleagues.
ABC
Art News
Associated Press
BET
Columbia Journalism Review
Dissent
GQ
Los Angeles Times
Hollywood Reporter
Marketplace Tech
HBO
Outside
Preserving Democracy
Reuters Institute
Science
Time
The Guardian
The New England Journal of Medicine
The New York Daily News
The New York Times
The New York Review of Books
The New Yorker
The Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Faculty Awards & Accomplishments
Meredith Broussard
- Professor Broussard received a grant from the National Science Foundation to plan an undergraduate summer institute focused on race and AI.
- Her book More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech was named one of two finalists for the 2024 AAP PROSE Award.
Ellen Horne
- Professor Horne received a grant from the State Department for a project that fosters collaboration and innovation between U.S. and Chinese podcasters.
Chenjerai Kumanyika
- Professor Kumanyika’s podcast Empire City was released this fall, landing on the top podcast lists on Apple Podcasts, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, and more.
Susie Linfield
- Professor Linfeld’s essay “The Return of the Progressive Atrocity” was included in the book Responses to 7 October: Universities.
Jason Maloney
- Professor Maloney’s documentary Rebirth of the Range aired on ABC: Our America.
Marcia Rock
- Professor Rock’s documentary Family Treasures Lost and Found was released this year.
Jay Rosen
- Professor Rosen was interviewed and quoted extensively in The Washington Post, The New Republic, MSNBC, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, and other publications.
Salman Rushdie
- Professor Rushdie’s book Knife was published this year. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and a national bestseller.
Jason Samuels
- Professor Samuels won a 2024 National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award for the television segment “Unnecessary Amputations.”
- He was the executive producer of the BET News program What’s at Stake: Election 2024.
Hilke Schellmann
- Professor Schellmann’s podcast “In Machines We Trust” won a Silver Anthem Award and was a finalist for the Deadline Club Awards.
- Her book The Algorithm won a 2024 SABEW award, a Bronze Anthem Award, and made The Financial Times’s best books of 2024 list.
Rachel Swarns
- Professor Swarns’s book The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church won a 2024 Prose Award and a 2024 American Book Award.
- Her project Hidden Legacies received one of five NYU Digital Humanities Seed Grants.
- Professor Swarns, who received tenure this year, was also one of three NYU professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.
Nanfu Wang
- Professor Wang’s documentary Night Is Not Eternal was released on HBO this year.
… And many more! We extend a warm congratulations to all our faculty and teaching professionals whose accomplishments this year could cover a whole review in itself.
Carter Institute 2024 Highlights
Initiatives
- We have completed renovations on the 7th floor of Cooper Square. We now have a new television studio, new equipment for multimedia students, updated audio/video booths, and a dedicated theater for film and documentary screenings.
- The Ethics and Journalism Initiative launched the annual Collier Award, intended for “student and professional journalists that meet the highest ethical standards in the face of pressure or incentives to do otherwise.”
- The Black Male Journalism Workshop (Now Ed Bradley Fellowship) began its inaugural session in June.
- AJO launched the project Journalism Crossroads, showcasing media career paths and wisdom from veterans in the industry.
- First Amendment Watch co-hosted the second annual National First Amendment Summit in October at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center.
Fellowships & Awards
- The Carter Institute partnered with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media to create the Pathways Alliance Prize, which was awarded to Newsdoc students Susanna Calhoun and Laya Hartman.
- The last investigation Pete Madden (First Amendment Watch) led for ABC News, about the link between the herbicide paraquat and Parkinson’s Disease, was a Loeb Award finalist.
- Jacob Judah was the recipient of the 2024 Reporting Award.
- Shayla Love, a contributor at The Guardian and Psyche, was the recipient of the 2024 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
- Adam Willis, the winner of the 2023 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, published his 6,500-word story about North Dakota’s experiment with carbon sequestration in Bloomberg.