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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June 27, 2025
NewsDoc Alum Mona El-Naggar Wins Emmy for Outstanding Hard News Feature
Congratulations to NewsDoc alum Mona El-Naggar for receiving the Emmy Award for […]
June 27, 2025
Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano, BA, 2017
The National Geographic/Disney+/Hulu series World Eats Bread won the 2025 James Beard Award for […]
June 10, 2025
AJO student Halle Zander is the new News Director at Aspen Public Radio
After just four years as a reporter, editor, and host at Aspen […]
June 2, 2025
Suha Musa Wins First Place at Threesis for Outstanding Journalism Research
Master’s College Threesis Academic Challenge- The 2025 Threesis Academic Challenge went off without […]
May 30, 2025
Award-winning Pakistani filmmaker, NYU Alumni and Fulbright scholar Shehzad Hameed Ahmad’s three-part docu-series, Addicted, had its global premiere on CNA on May 24.
This eye-opening series, filmed across 12 countries, dives into the shocking figures released […]
May 27, 2025
Qing Hu MA ’25 Joins Prediction News as Editorial Assistant
Qing Hu recently joined Prediction News as an Editorial Assistant, where she […]
May 23, 2025
Chi Tian and Angela (Elle) Liu won a 2025 AAJA Award for Student Excellence in Video Storytelling
The video was produced in Prof. Jason Samuels’s Advanced Multimedia course and published in amNewYork. Tian and Liu are both alumni of Journalism's undergraduate program.
May 21, 2025
Elizabeth Arakelian was recently named Director of Radio at KVPR, Central California’s NPR station.
May 21, 2025
NYU faculty Susanna Granieri received a 2025 IRE Fellowship which honors the late Times Herald-Record editor.
April 28, 2025
Uncloseted Media investigative journalist Samantha Donndelinger (BA 2024) wins an ASBPE Award for a story on barriers to PrEP access for low-income people of color in the Bible Belt.
The Azbees recognize outstanding work by magazines and digital media — websites, e-newsletters, digital magazines, social media and blogs.
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.