Career News
NYU Journalism alumni are hired by top media companies around the world. In 2014, LinkedIn ranked NYU the #1 university for media professionals, based on alumni career placement. Check out some recent success stories below.
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May 13, 2024
Kathy Ou, MA 2024
Kathy Ou’s short audio story “Chinese Seniors Find Community with Ping Pong at a NYC Park” — first produced in class and since published on AsAmNews — has won the 2024 Student Excellence in Audio Storytelling from the Asian American Journalists Association. Judge’s comments: “Ou's piece introduces us to an eclectic group of people who gather in a public park in lower Manhattan to play ping pong. The variety of voices and sounds, coupled with Ou's excellent narration, makes listeners feel deeply immersed in the scene.”
May 13, 2024
Rachel Nostrant, BER 2023
Rachel was selected to be the 2024-'25 Disability Reporting Fellow for The New York Times. She will be responsible for covering daily U.S. news on the National desk alongside coverage of the disability community at large. Prior to this, Rachel had long covered the U.S. military as a Marine Corps veteran herself and has interned at Reuters and the Associated Press in London as an Overseas Press Club Scholar, and reported for New York Magazine from
May 13, 2024
Emma Burleigh, GloJo 2023
Emma Burleigh recently joined Fortune Magazine as its Leadership Editorial Fellow, where she reports on business, company practices, workers rights, and success. She co-writes and curates the newsletter CHRO Daily, alongside her longer-form content covering labor market trends and Fortune 500 executives. She has spent years as a journalist investigating equity, best practices, and power players at The China Project and Observer, and hopes to continue reporting on the people and issues that shape business, politics, and society.
May 13, 2024
Lisa Seyton
Lisa Setyon is a video journalist and associate producer at CNBC Digital, based in San Francisco. She focuses on covering technology, digging into the latest developments and trends in the industry. Before joining CNBC, Lisa worked in various media roles across France and the United States, gaining experience in both traditional and digital platforms.
May 13, 2024
Berenice Garcia, BA 2013
Berenice Garcia joined the Texas Tribune as a Report for America corps member. She is part of the Tribune's regional reporting team and is their first reporter dedicated to covering the Rio Grande Valley. She previously covered the region locally for seven years as a reporter for The Monitor, reporting on a wide range of topics, including local government, criminal justice and health care. She graduated from New York University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and politics.
April 19, 2024
NYU Journalism major David Cheung was a winner in this year’s Multimedia Enterprise competition of the Hearst Awards.
Cheung's 7-minute piece, a video deep dive into New York City’s Chinese Opera Scene, finished in 13th Place. It was Cheung's second win of the 2023-24 season. He was also a finalist in the category for Multimedia Narrative Storytelling. The win marks NYU Journalism's fifth of the year.
April 16, 2024
The NYU Journalism major Stacia Datskovska placed in the top 20 of this year’s Personality/Profile writing competition for Hearst Awards.
Datskovska's intimate look into the life of a female firefighter and boxer, Nicole Malpeso: The Pride of Staten Island, which was published on Cooper Squared, reached No. 13 on the list. This was Hearst's fourth and last writing competition of the year.
March 25, 2024
Teresa Strasser, BA 1992
Emmy-Award winning television writer Teresa Strasser recently published her second book, Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League (Penguin), a memoir about one season of Little League baseball she spent with her father after her brother died of cancer at age 47. Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by USA Today, the memoir covers 16 games she spent in the bleachers with her dad watching her oldest son play ball and turning the American Pastime into a grief group of two. Called “moving, funny, sad, and hopeful” by the Arizona Republic, it was also named Sports Book of the Year by the American Writing Awards.
March 12, 2024
Lauren Levesque, BA 2023
Lauren Levesque graduated with a bachelor’s degree from New York University in May 2023 and is currently completing a master’s degree in Journalism from NYU. She works as a Senior Staff writer at Young Hot & Modern, a digital magazine for the modern woman where she has covered fashion, culture, beauty and wellness. In February 2024, she published a feature story about Laurence Basse at New York Fashion Week. Lauren is interested in gaining more experience in the overall magazine and fashion industry.
February 29, 2024
NYU Journalism major Pablo Ocariz Gimenez Makes Hearst Awards Top 20 List for Sports Writing
The Hearst Journalism Awards has announced its Top 20 winners in this year's Sports Writing competition. Pablo Ocariz Gimenez's story on "The New Business of Baseball in Venezuela" came in at No. 14 on the list. There were 128 entries from 70 universities.
January 30, 2024
Kathryn Palmer, GloJo MA 2023
Kathryn Palmer joined USA Today as its Elections Reporting Fellow in California, where she covers statewide politics and campaign news connected to the 2024 presidential and congressional elections. Her focus on government accountability stretches back to her time as a local news reporter and inspired her overseas reporting and research in France, Morocco and Tunisia while in the Global Journalism program.
January 9, 2024
Mehar Gujral, NewsDoc MA 2023
Mehar Gujral is the Post-Production Coordinator at Gigantic Studios, an award-winning post-production house in New York City. She assisted on the upcoming "Checkpoint Zoo" feature documentary and is a pre-screener at American Documentary for "POV" on PBS, America's longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films. While at NYU, Mehar took classes in filmmaking and screenwriting and was a 2022 NY Emmys Grantee and South Asian Journalists' Association Scholarship Winner.
December 22, 2023
NewsDoc Alum Giorgio Ghiotto’s Film “Wings of Dust” Shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards
"Wings of Dust" will compete with 14 other films for a nomination in the "Documentary Short Film" category. Nominations will be announced next month.
December 20, 2023
NYU Journalism undergraduate David Cheung placed 8th in the Multimedia Narrative Storytelling Competition of the annual Hearst Awards.
The Hearst Journalism Awards has announced its list of the 20 best Multimedia Narrative Storytelling projects for 2024. "The Hong Kong pole dancers fighting sexual stigma," at number eight on the list, is a short video created by NYU senior David Cheung, who handled every step from conceptualization to execution. Cheung's story looks at the origins and rising popularity of acrobatic pole routines and was published by BBC Reel, which focuses on short documentaries and explainers.
December 14, 2023
NYU Journalism undergraduate Payton Selby placed in the Top 20 in the Feature Writing Competition of the annual Hearst Awards.
She won for her article "Why Punchdrunk's Sleep No More is Still a Hot Ticket," which was published in October by the Observer.
September 26, 2023
Michelle Diaz, RTN/RNY MA 2021
Michelle Diaz is an Associate Producer at World News Tonight with David Muir, the most watched show on television. In this role, she produces domestic/international news, providing the latest information and analysis of major events. Diaz began her career at ABC News as an intern for 20/20 while completing her Master's in the Reporting the Nation and New York program at NYU.
September 5, 2023
Alejandra Arevalo, BA 2020
Alejandra Arevalo has been selected as a Hearst Developer Fellow. She will be working on projects related to data visualization, interactive visual storytelling, and artificial intelligence. Alejandra was first exposed to data journalism and visualization as part of Meredith Broussard's Data Journalism class which partnered with The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. She has covered politics, lifestyle topics, and the Latino community for outlets including USA Today and Latina Magazine and worked as a podcast producer at iHeartMedia.
September 5, 2023
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, GloJo MA 2002
Lindsay Krasnoff recently published her second book, Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA (Bloomsbury), a first-of-its-kind look at how and why France became a major pipeline of talent into the NBA, WNBA, and NCAA. It compliments FranceAndUS, a project she founded to highlight the Franco-American relationship through sports diplomacy ahead of the Paris 2024-LA 2028 Olympic cycle.
August 15, 2023
Emily Conklin, BA 2020
Emily Conklin has been named Managing Editor of The Architect's Newspaper, a leading architecture and design publication that publishes monthly print editions. Emily has spent her career chasing the arts and design beat, and enjoys the process of creating a physical print product that supports emerging voices, incisive critique and long-form storytelling. Emily wrote for The Architect’s Newspaper while she was an undergrad at NYU Journalism.
August 14, 2023
Calen Razor, BA 2022
Calen Razor has been selected as Allbritton Journalism Institute Reporting Fellow. He graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and public policy. Calen started his career as a production assistant at News 12 Connecticut, a job he secured after meeting recruiters at the NYU Journalism Career Fair. While at NYU he was an editorial intern at Men’s Health. He also produced multimedia stories for the 2021 National Association of Black Journalists Convention.