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New York Magazine publishes longform work supported by Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award
Dan Xin Huang’s article looks at school segregation and class in Athens, Ohio. Huang was the Power Award runner-up in 2020.
Alumni Lyuwei Chen and Giorgio Ghiotto Named Finalists for the 2023 Student Academy Awards
Chen and Ghiotto are both Class of 2023 News and Documentary graduates.
Journalism Venture Capital Fund provides seed money for two new major projects
The Ethics and Journalism Initiative, proposed by Stephen Adler, will tackle ethical issues in journalism with a focus on AI, political coverage, and privacy. A new summer journalism workshop proposed by Jason Samuels and Keyana Smith seeks to address the low number of Black male students and professionals in journalism.
Announcing the winners of the 2023 American Journalism Online Awards
From Baltimore to Los Angeles to India, this year’s AJO Award-winners dug into issues including killings of transgender Americans, squalor inside Rikers Island Jail, celebrity justice, food and drink in the American South, and a 50-year-old rape case.
Prof. Rachel Swarns wins 2023 Bingham Fellowship
The fellowship is awarded by the News Leaders Association in recognition of an educator’s outstanding efforts to encourage minority students in the field of journalism. The News Leaders Association cited Swarns' "dedication to using journalism to illuminate the nation's racial history, to setting an example for her students and her actions to support and empower them.''
Prof. Hilke Schellmann and A Group of Stanford Journalism Professors and Students Were Awarded a Magic Grant for the Project Data From Docs
Data From Docs seeks to provide technology tools for journalists using AI and large language models, among other technologies.
Prof. Rachel Swarns has been elected to the Society of American Historians
Swarns was selected “in recognition of the narrative power and scholarly distinction” of her work. The Society, which is based at Columbia University, identifies and celebrates distinguished historical writing and is made up of scholars, public historians, journalists and independent writers.
Celebrated documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang will join the faculty at NYU’s Journalism Institute starting Fall 2023
Wang has won the MacArthur Genius Grant, two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, and was shortlisted for three Academy Awards. She will teach courses, including a new one on Reporting in Closed Societies, and advise graduate students as a Distinguished Writer In Residence.
AJO Adjunct Professor Claire Tighe Produced a Podcast That Took Second in the 89th Annual National Headliner Awards
The podcast, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders, was created by the Chicago Tribune. The Headliner Awards recognizes journalistic achievement in the Communications Industry.
NYU Journalism announces 2023 Award Winners
These honors are a testament to their tremendous talent, hard work and dedication to journalism.
NYU Journalism Alumna Katia Patin is Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Katia Patin was selected for the 2023 Journalism Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). The program sends fellows to Germany and Poland to study the conduct of journalists in Nazioccupied Europe and reflect on journalism ethics today. Katia Patin is a multimedia journalist based between Washington, D.C. and Istanbul. She produced Generation Gulag, a documentary series uncovering the impact of Russia’s campaign to rewrite the history of Gulag survivors, shortlisted for the One World Media Award in 2020. Her journalism has appeared in TIME Magazine, the Guardian, NBC, the Atlantic among other publications.
The Launch for Rachel Swarns’ Forthcoming Book, The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, Will Take Place on Monday, June 12 at 7pm at the Strand.
She will be in conversation with Edward Ball, the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family and Life of a Klansman.