Institute News

Elizabeth Arakelian was recently named Director of Radio at KVPR, Central California’s NPR station.

NYU faculty Susanna Granieri received a 2025 IRE Fellowship which honors the late Times Herald-Record editor.

Alumni celebrate NewsDoc 25th Anniversary

SHERP graduate wins grand prize in specialized journalism contest 

Calli McMurray (SHERP 2023) won top honors in the 70th Jesse H. […]

Nanfu Wang (Film and Documentary 2014) received the prestigious Peabody Award for her latest documentary, Night Is Not Eternal.

Night Is Not Eternal, directed by NYU M.A. Film & Documentary alumna […]

Uncloseted Media investigative journalist Samantha Donndelinger (BA 2024) wins an ASBPE Award for a story on barriers to PrEP access for low-income people of color in the Bible Belt.

The Azbees recognize outstanding work by magazines and digital media — websites, e-newsletters, digital magazines, social media and blogs.

National Magazine Award is shared by SHERP alum

Charlie Wood (SHERP 2018) wrote five of the nine stories in Quanta […]

SHERP graduate is named a Guggenheim Fellow

Bijal Trivedi (SHERP 1998) received the honor to support her current book […]

Two NYU Journalism Students received GSAS Thesis Research Summer Fellowships.

Congratulations to Pau Torres Pagès and Lecun Xiang!

Lauren Williams has been named the 2025 winner of NYU Journalism’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.

Williams, the eleventh winner of the annual award, will use the award to pursue a story about art history in the American South. Katie Thornton was named runner-up, and will pursue a story about language and politics.

SHERP Graduate wins global video journalism award

Joss Fong (SHERP 2013) and her co-creator Adam Cole have been chosen as one of the winners of the inaugural News Creator Award for Excellence in Independent Video Journalism, sponsored by the International Center for Journalists.

NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain Wins College Television Award for Thesis Documentary “A Dream Called Khushi”

The 44th College Television Awards were presented on April 5, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.