Institute News

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').

NYU Ethics and Journalism Initiative Announces Finalists for the Inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism

The inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism honors outstanding ethical reporting, with winners to be announced at an April 10 ceremony featuring keynote speaker Dean Baquet.

Empire City, Professor Chenjerai Kumanyika’s podcast with Crooked Media, is a finalist for an ASME National Magazine Award.

Empire City, hosted by Professor Kumanyika, discusses the untold history of the NYPD. It has topped podcast lists at the New Yorker, Time Magazine, the New York Times, and others.

Professor Jason Samuels’ prime-time news special, The BET Black Men’s Summit, received a 2025 NAACP Image Award nomination.

The BET Black Men's Summit received the nomination for Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special).

The Financial Times included Hilke Schellmann’s book in their Best books of 2024: Business

The book was awarded a Bronze Anthem award in the Responsible Technology category.