Institute 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.
The National First Amendment Summit, co-hosted by Steve Solomon’s First Amendment Watch, was held on Tuesday, October 22 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
The annual summit featured a keynote address by the Washington Post's Jason Rezaian.
The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents announced that two NYU graduate students are scholarship awardees
NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain won a 2024 Student Academy Award.
Of the 2683 films submitted, Rishabh's documentary film, "A Dream Called Khushi" was one of three to win the award in the Documentary category. Rishabh's win marks NewsDoc's 11th student academy award win.
NewsDoc Alumn Ziyi Xu’s film, “Bucking on the Rez”, will premiere at DOCNYC this year
Read more on docnyc.com.
An investigation led by Pete Madden (First Amendment Watch) for ABC News, about the link between the herbicide Paraquat and Parkinson’s Disease, is a Loeb Award finalist.
Hilke Schellmann’s book The Algorithm is longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024.
Qingyue Zheng, a current NewsDoc student was awarded the IFG Best Impact Potential second prize at CNEX Chinese Doc Forum ‘24.
She received a $6000 award for her film Lady Lion, a documentary on China’s first trans woman.
Ellen Horne was awarded a grant from the State Department for a project to foster collaboration and innovation between US and Chinese Podcasters.
Over the next year, her "Voice Exchange" project will host three conferences in Shanghai. These events will feature talks by both Chinese and American podcasters with panel discussions and workshops on production techniques, fact checking, narrative storytelling styles, business models, and best practices for building audiences and creating community.
Rachel Swarns received a 2024 American Book Award for The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.
The award honors outstanding literary achievement from the nation's diverse literary community.