Institute News

Calli McMurray (SHERP 2023) wins grand prize in specialized journalism contest 

McMurray won top honors in the 70th Jesse H. Neal Awards, the […]

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.

Charlie Wood (SHERP 2018) shares National Magazine Award

Wood wrote five of the nine stories in Quanta Magazine’s winning entry: […]

Bijal Trivedi (SHERP 1998) is named a Guggenheim Fellow

Trivedi received the honor to support her current book project, a cultural […]

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.

Joss Fong (SHERP 2013) 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.

Chenjerai Kumanyika’s Empire City just won the Award for Best History Podcast

Lori Youmshajekian (SHERP 2023) named a Logan Science Journalism Fellow

Youmshajekian will study biomedical science this summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory […]

Four NYU Journalism Alumni were selected as 2025-26 New York Times Fellows

Congratulations to Pooja Salhotra (Litrep '22) , Kailyn Rhone (BER '23), Alexa Robles-Gil (SHERP '24), and Owen Berg (Studio 20 23').