Institute News

Feature-length documentary “A Kid from Coney Island” co-produced by Prof. Jason Samuels premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was a #1 downloaded documentary on iTunes

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Matthew Power Award winner will report on health care in Russia

Maria Danilova is the sixth winner of the annual award. Dan Xin Huang is runner-up.

Distinguished Writer in Residence Ta-Nehisi Coates talked with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic

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Latin America News Dispatch (LAND) Seeks Funding in 2020

LAND, the Latin America News Dispatch, seeks funding to pay our journalists — the NYU students, alumni and freelancers from throughout the regions — who make this publication possible.

NYPL and WNYC’s inaugural Virtual Book Club reads Distinguished Writer in Residence James McBride’s new book “Deacon King Kong”

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Reporting the Nation & NY students produce special report “Shutdown: The Coronavirus” on Pavement Pieces

The students are reporting on the nation as it copes with an international pandemic that has shut down the country.

Distinguished Writer in Residence Ivan Oransky visits On the Media to discuss science communications in the time of coronavirus

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Distinguished Writer in Residence James McBride talks about writing, life and his latest book, Deacon King Kong, with the NYTimes

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Power Award winner writes about China’s gay dating app

Yi-Ling Liu, winner of last year’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, publishes in the New York Times Magazine about the Blued app.

Studio 20 multimedia project “The Great Divide” nominated for a New York Emmy

The multimedia production explores the extremes of education, labor, housing, and identity through personal narratives of NYC residents.

Prof. Charles Seife wins transparency lawsuit that forces the FDA to post a decade’s worth of clinical trials data

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Two NYU undergraduate students place in the 2019-2020 Hearst Awards

NYU journalism major Jing Feng took fourth place in Television Features and NYU senior Kaitlyn Wang took 11th place in Narrative Video Storytelling.