Institute News
Four NYU Journalism Alumni were selected as 2025-26 New York Times Fellows
Congratulations to Pooja Salhotra (Litrep '22) , Kailyn Rhone (BER '23), Alexa Robles-Gil (SHERP '24), and Owen Berg (Studio 20 23').
NYU Ethics and Journalism Initiative Announces Finalists for the Inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism
The inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism honors outstanding ethical reporting, with winners to be announced at an April 10 ceremony featuring keynote speaker Dean Baquet.
Empire City, Professor Chenjerai Kumanyika’s podcast with Crooked Media, is a finalist for an ASME National Magazine Award.
Empire City, hosted by Professor Kumanyika, discusses the untold history of the NYPD. It has topped podcast lists at the New Yorker, Time Magazine, the New York Times, and others.
Professor Jason Samuels’ prime-time news special, The BET Black Men’s Summit, received a 2025 NAACP Image Award nomination.
The BET Black Men's Summit received the nomination for Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special).
The Financial Times included Hilke Schellmann’s book in their Best books of 2024: Business
The book was awarded a Bronze Anthem award in the Responsible Technology category.
Adam Willis, the winner of the 2023 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, has published his 6,500-word story about North Dakota’s experiment with carbon sequestration
The piece was published in in Bloomberg Business Week.
NewsDoc Student Tamar Baruch won the IDA David Wolper Student Documentary Award
Baruch directed and produced "Her Name Was Zehava".
New York University’s Reporting the Nation-Reporting New York cohort traveled to Robeson County in North Carolina the weekend before the 2024 election.
Robeson County was historically a Democratic stronghold, swinging to Donald J. Trump in 2016 and 2020. RTN-NY students reported on the ground in Lumbee county, analyzing voting patterns and how locals were leaning in the days leading up to the election. Read more on pavementpieces.com.
Reporters for @nyu_ajo’s The Click covered the #24USElections from more than 15 states and 3 countries reporting results, interviewing voters, and explaining issues to voters.
Read their pieces online at theclick.news.
NewsDoc Alum Contessa Gayles’ feature film, Songs from the Hole, premiered earlier this year.
The film will show in NYC at the Urbanworld Film Festival on Saturday 11/16 at 4:30PM at the Regal Union Square.
Chenjerai Kumanyika’s “Empire City” named one of three standout podcasts in a recent issue of The New Yorker
NYU Journalism alum Jaime Villarreal released “Mon Laferte, te amo”, a Netflix documentary that tells the story of Mon Laferte, the artist who overcame a life of abuse to revolutionize music in Latin America.
Filmed over a three-year period in which the artist was intimately portrayed, this documentary was created and produced by Jaime Villarreal, creative director and founder of Blackstar Content.