Institute News
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.
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 a finalist 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.