Institute News

Best-Selling Author Mary Roach is Inaugural Simons Visiting Science Journalist at NYU
Science writer and humorist Mary Roach, best-selling author of six books, is visiting the Carter Institute Oct. 12-14 with the support of the Simons Foundation.

Lit Rep 2017 graduate student Sarah Stodder wins award
The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club awarded Sarah Stodder for her San Francisco Magazine piece “$1.2 Million. 13 Offers. 400k Over Asking. For This?”

Studio 20 graduate Eva Revear awarded a scholarship to attend a Digital News Preservation conference at UCLA
Congratulations to Eva Revear Studio 20 graduate student! Revear has been awarded a scholarship to attend a Digital News Preservation conference at UCLA.

NYU GlobalBeat Wins Second Place at RNA Awards
NYU Journalism’s international reporting class, GlobalBeat, won second place in the Series category at the Religion News Association awards, for its four-part series for PBS NewsHour from Morocco.

Reporting Award winner Sarah Stillman named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow
Sarah Stillman, visiting scholar and 2010 Reporting Award winner, was named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.

NYU Journalism Studio 20 Graduate Students Win ONA Student Journalism Award
Studio 20 graduate students won the Online News Association's David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award for NYC Values. Another NYU Journalism project in partnership with PBS Frontline, Return to Chernobyl, was a finalist in the ONA Pro-Am Student Award category.

President Obama Awards 2015 National Humanities Medal to James McBride
Distinguished Writer in Residence James McBride was awarded a 2015 National Humanities medal by President Obama during a White House ceremony.

NYU sends students to NABJNAHJ16 convention in DC
NYU sent 18 journalism students and six faculty/staff to the National Association of Black Journalists/ National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NABJNAHJ16) convention in DC.

NewsDoc Alumni Wins Student Academy Award
Rongfei Guo won a medal in the "Documentary" category for Fairy Tales, which chronicles the life of a working-class woman from rural China whose eccentric fashion designs, posted on Weibo, the country's largest social media site, turned her into an overnight Internet celebrity.

Prof. Mohamad Bazzi wins first place award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists
Prof. Mohamad Bazzi was awarded first place in the Online Columns category for columns he wrote on the Middle East for Reuters in 2015.

Graduate Studies Director Charles Seife wins Global Editors Network 2016 Data Journalism Award
"Spies in the Skies" by Peter Aldhous & Charles Seife wins Global Editors Network 2016 Data Journalism Award for Data Visualisation of the Year (Large Newsroom).

2016 Reporting Award Winner Announced
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Brooke Jarvis, a contributing writer to the California Sunday Magazine, as the recipient of its 2016 Reporting Award.