Eight NYU students, including Studio 20 students Emma Cillekens and Alessandra Freitas, are part of the ProPublica team which won the prestigious George Polk Award for their reporting on maternal mortality.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected four NYU faculty as fellows for 2018, including NYU Journalism’s own distinguished writer in residence, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Multimedia enterprise stories by NYU undergraduates Yara Hamway and Jesus Ian Kumamoto were selected as Top 20 finalists in this year’s Hearst Journalism Awards competition.
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Jessica Camille Aguirre, a freelancer writer who has served as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Africa, the winner of its Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
NYU Journalism’s First Amendment Watch website is accepting applications now for a fulltime researcher/writer.
Jaeah Lee (NYU Journalism B.A. ‘07) won one of the two inaugural American Mosaic Journalism Prizes.
Amanda Regalado finished 18th in the Multimedia Features competition for undergraduate journalism majors
Director Ted Conover, assisted by Aaron Coleman of BER, revisits the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968, a landmark civil rights event that precipated the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
BER Alum Jay Yarow, executive editor at CNBC’s digital operations, is Talking Biz News’ Business Journalist of the Year.
Studio 20 students won an Award of Excellence in Online Multimedia Storytelling from the College Photographer of the Year competition with their project, “Finding Sanctuary.”