Institute News

NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain’s thesis documentary, A Dream Called Khushi, is named a semi finalist in the documentary category of the 2024 Student Academy Awards

This year, total submissions were 2683 films, putting Rishabh's documentary film among the top 3% to advance to the semi finals.

Jacob Judah Named Recipient of Carter Journalism Institute’s 2024 Reporting Award

Judah will spend his time reporting on the changing Arctic from the Bering Strait and the Diomede Islands, where a remote community of Americans only three miles from Russia have a unique – but often overlooked – vantage point on the tectonic shifts affecting the north.

AJO Alum wins two first place awards at this year’s annual Indigenous Media Awards

Brian Bull (AJO 2022) is a longtime reporter for KLCC and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. He was awarded first place in the Excellence in Beat Reporting (Radio/Podcast, Professional Division) category for a series of stories on legislation affecting or involving Native American tribes, and First Place for Best Feature Story (Print/Online) for "How the recovery of a stolen plant helped one tribe re-Indigenize tobacco," published and distributed by Underscore Native News.

AJO Launched “Journalism Crossroads” Showcasing Modern Media Career Paths and Wisdom from Veterans

The Studs Terkel-style collection of digital profiles showcases revolutionary new careers, pros redefining traditional roles, and the experiences of veterans to provide us context from the past.

Two NewsDoc Student Documentaries Longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards

My Lens, My Land by Ke Chen and Nancy Joy by Franky Dean were both selected for the longlist, which is 20 documentaries in length. The awards received over 800 submissions.

SHERP Class Wins National Contest for Best Student Magazine Issue

The 41st SHERP class, which graduated in December, was awarded 1st prize in the category of best single-issue student magazine in the Society of Professional Journalists’ nationwide Mark of Excellence contest.

AJO Alum wins Report for America Local News Award

Bobby Brier (2021) won a third place award in enterprise/investigative features at the annual Report for American Local News Awards for his NJ Spotlight News feature story on suicide rates among construction workers.

Prof. Rachel Swarns was awarded one of five NYU Digital Humanities Seed Grants to support the next initiative in her research project, Hidden Legacies.

The project, Lynchings in the North, is a digital archive that will document the foundational role that slavery played in fueling the growth of contemporary institutions in the United States.

AJO Student Wins New York Press Association Award

Lynn Hallarman (AJO 2024) and her editor won 3rd Prize for Local Government Coverage at this year's New York Press Association Awards. Lynn's work appeared in the Port Times Record.

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Marlene Sanders Award in Journalism

The Marlene Sanders Award is presented to a student whose work goes beyond good grades and exemplifies the spirit, love of journalism, energy and drive of pioneering journalist, Marlene Sanders.

Hannah Beckler (GloJo 2019) won the 2024 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.

Beckler is a Senior Investigations Editor at Business Insider. Her piece investigates the violent use of police dogs in prison.

The first episode of Prof. Chenjerai Kumanyika’s eight-part audio documentary, Empire City, was selected as an Official Selection for the Audio Storytelling program of the Tribeca Festival.

"As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City will tell you where the police came from. From Peabody award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika, Empire City digs into the origin story of the world’s largest police force: the NYPD. Chenjerai takes listeners on a journey from narratives of Black abolitionists fighting slave patrols, to the story of two rival police forces duking it out at City Hall, to the origins of the true crime genre." TribecaTribeca