Institute News

NYU senior finishes in Top 10 of Hearst Awards competition

Breaking News story by NYU journalism major Téa Kvetenadze selected as Top 10 finalist in this year's Hearst Journalism Awards competition.

Studio 20 students launch the multimedia project The Great Divide

Studio 20 graduate students investigate the vast inequities that exist in social mobility, job discrimination, housing and education in New York City through a series of opposing personal video stories.

Okay to kill cats? Power Award winner considers Australian cull of feral cats

Jessica Camille Aguirre’s article in the New York Times Magazine, made possible by the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, looks at Australia’s decision to cull millions of feral cats responsible for killing indigenous species.

Distinguished Writer in Residence Eliza Griswold wins Pulitzer Prize

Eliza Griswold has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America"

RTN/RNY and GloJo alums win Amnesty International Award

Claire Tighe (RTN/RNY) and Lauren Gurley (GloJo) win in Student Journalism for their story “Official Reports of Violence Against Women in Puerto Rico Unreliable After Hurricane Maria”

SHERP alums win Association of Health Care Journalists awards

Melinda Wenner Moyer, Ashley Lyles, Dan Robitzski, Cici Zhang, and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega won 2018 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.

BER appoints a new Visiting Scholar— Jean Yoon

Jean Yoon is Executive Editor, Editorial Strategy, for Reuters, a position she assumed in October 2017.

NYU Journalism Names Yi-Ling Liu Winner of 2019 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award

Liu will write about social media in China. Runner-up Clapp will report on politics and crime in the Balkans.

2018 Matthew Power Awardee has cover of the New York Times Magazine

Ben Mauk’s "Trillion Dollar Nowhere" recounts China’s efforts to transform a remote town into a global trading hub. It ran on February 3.

Two NYU Journalism NewsDoc alums, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize

“One Child Nation” is a documentary about China’s policy of forcibly restricting family size.

Reuters-NABJ Graduate Fellowship is available now

The Business & Economic Reporting Program offers a fellowship through Reuters and the National Association of Black Journalists.

Prof. Jay Rosen interviewed on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Jay Rosen, professor, director of the Studio 20 graduate program, press critic and ambassador for "The Correspondent," talked with host Trevor Noah about his efforts to bring the ad-free, member-funded Dutch news platform to English-speaking audiences.