Institute News
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Ta-Nehisi Coates as 2018 Fellow
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.
Hearst Awards honors two NYU undergraduate students
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.
NYU Journalism Names Jessica Camille Aguirre Winner of Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award
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.
First Amendment Watch Seeking Fulltime Researcher/Writer
NYU Journalism's First Amendment Watch website is accepting applications now for a fulltime researcher/writer.
NYU Journalism Alumna Wins $100,000 Journalism Prize
Jaeah Lee (NYU Journalism B.A. ‘07) won one of the two inaugural American Mosaic Journalism Prizes.
Senior makes Hearst Journalism Awards Top 20 List
Amanda Regalado finished 18th in the Multimedia Features competition for undergraduate journalism majors
The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis
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 Awarded Journalist of the Year
BER Alum Jay Yarow, executive editor at CNBC’s digital operations, is Talking Biz News' Business Journalist of the Year.
Studio 20 Students Win Award of Excellence in Online Multimedia Storytelling
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."
The 2018 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award – Applications are now open
The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award is a grant to support the work of a promising early-career nonfiction writer on a story that uncovers truths about the human condition.
The 2018 Reporting Award – Applications are now open
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is accepting applications for “The Reporting Award,” which supports a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects in the public interest.
NYU GloJo student Simone Somekh releases debut novel in Italy, “Grandangolo”
"Grandangolo" (Wide Angle), Simone Somekh's new book in Italian, was released this week. The book is a coming-of-age novel about an ultra-orthodox teenager who discovers the world through the lens of his camera.