Institute News
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.
SHERP class wins 2024 Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 1 Award for “Scienceline Kids: When Art Meets Science,” advances to national contest
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.
Professor Rachel Swarns won a 2024 PROSE award from the Association of American Publishers
The PROSE Award honors "authors, publishers and editors whose landmark works have made significant advancements" in their scholarly fields.
Jesse Coburn (GloJo-EurMed 2016) won the Polk Award for Local Reporting
From liu.edu: “Ghost Tags: Inside New York City’s Black Market for Temporary License Plates," [is] the product of a seven-month investigation that uncovered an extensive underground economy in fraudulent paper license plates that motorists used to evade detection while driving on suspended licenses, dodging tolls and tickets and committing other more serious crimes.
NYU Journalism major Pablo Ocariz Gimenez Makes Hearst Awards Top 20 List for Sports Writing
The Hearst Journalism Awards has announced its Top 20 winners in this year's Sports Writing competition. Pablo Ocariz Gimenez's story on "The New Business of Baseball in Venezuela" came in at No. 14 on the list. There were 128 entries from 70 universities.
NewsDoc Alum Robie Flores’ Documentary “The In Between” Premieres at SXSW
“Wings of Dust,” a film by NewsDoc Alum Giorgio Ghiotto was nominated for an EMMY and made its MSNBC debut!