Institute News

Shayla Love, a contributor the The Guardian and Psyche, has been named the winner of NYU Journalism’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.

Love, the tenth winner of the annual award, is the first to hold a bachelor’s degree from NYU (in journalism and art history). She will use the grant to pursue a story on non-traditional, and controversial, pathways to develop new medications and health treatments.

Prof. Rachel L. Swarns Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Academy, founded in 1780, honors exceptional scholars elected through an extensive process, and sponsors academic research endeavors. Prof. Swarns was elected to Class V – Leadership, Policy, and Communications, under Section 1 - Journalism, Media, and Communications.

NYU Journalism major David Cheung was a winner in this year’s Multimedia Enterprise competition of the Hearst Awards.

Cheung's 7-minute piece, a video deep dive into New York City’s Chinese Opera Scene, finished in 13th Place. It was Cheung's second win of the 2023-24 season. He was also a finalist in the category for Multimedia Narrative Storytelling. The win marks NYU Journalism's fifth of the year.

NewsDoc alum Giorgio Ghiotto won the Non Fiction Series student Emmy for his thesis documentary, Wings of Dust

Giorgio also won theThe Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award, given to only one of the winners, with an award of $4000.  He follows in the footsteps of Shuhao Tse who won these award last year.

The NYU Journalism major Stacia Datskovska placed in the top 20 of this year’s Personality/Profile writing competition for Hearst Awards.

Datskovska's intimate look into the life of a female firefighter and boxer, Nicole Malpeso: The Pride of Staten Island, which was published on Cooper Squared, reached No. 13 on the list. This was Hearst's fourth and last writing competition of the year.

Hilke Schellmann’s investigation on gender bias in AI-based visual classifiers for the Guardian was a finalist for a SABEW (Best in Business Award; Technology).

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing(SABEW) awarded Professor Schellmann's piece an honorable mention in the technology category.

“Scienceline Kids: When Art Meets Science,” the special issue of Scienceline created by the December 2023 graduating class of Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program students, is a finalist in the 2024 Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards in Region 1, the Northeast

As the SHERPies wrote: "Whether your dream is to become a famous fashion designer, an engineer, or anything in between — you’ll find something to love." Scienceline has earned this distinction at least a half dozen times before, and competition is always very stiff, with thousands of entries. We'll find out if they advance to the national awards at the SPJ Northeast conference at Emerson in April.

Teresa Strasser, BA 1992

Emmy-Award winning television writer Teresa Strasser recently published her second book, Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League (Penguin), a memoir about one season of Little League baseball she spent with her father after her brother died of cancer at age 47. Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by USA Today, the memoir covers 16 games she spent in the bleachers with her dad watching her oldest son play ball and turning the American Pastime into a grief group of two. Called “moving, funny, sad, and hopeful” by the Arizona Republic, it was also named Sports Book of the Year by the American Writing Awards. 

Meredith Broussard’s “More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” has been named as one of two finalists for the AAP PROSE Award

It is a finalist in the category for Popular Science and Mathematics. The PROSE award recognizes landmark achievements in professional scholarly publishing.

BER Alum Rachel Nostrant Selected as a New York Times Fellow

Rachel, who graduated in 2023, will be the The New York Times’s 2024–25 disability reporting fellow.

AJO students begin reporting partnership with Spotlight PA

Kate Mays, Paige Willett, and Wynter Muro - all students in Prof. Eliza Griswold's Feature Writing course - dug into all the candidates for auditor general in the first of a series of planned collaborations with the non-profit newsroom.

Lauren Levesque, BA 2023

Lauren Levesque graduated with a bachelor’s degree from New York University in May 2023 and is currently completing a master’s degree in Journalism from NYU. She works as a Senior Staff writer at Young Hot & Modern, a digital magazine for the modern woman where she has covered fashion, culture, beauty and wellness. In February 2024, she published a feature story about Laurence Basse at New York Fashion Week. Lauren is interested in gaining more experience in the overall magazine and fashion industry.