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.
Are you an NYU Journalism alumnus? Tell us about your career! If you’re currently looking for new opportunities, you can also submit your resumé for the Career Services resumé book at the end of the survey.
July 14, 2023
Nausheen Husain, BA 2011
Nausheen Husain has been selected as the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. Husain is an investigative reporter and assistant professor of magazine, news, and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she teaches data and documents journalism. Husain’s project will examine past and present American “War on Terror”-related government policies and programs and how these policies were covered in news media. Husain is looking for collaborators and is interested in hearing from those whose research intersects with this project: nhusain@syr.edu
May 23, 2023
Eliza Mitnick, MA 2022
News and Documentary alum Eliza Mitnick has been hired as an Associate Producer at Ark Media for a feature documentary about postpartum depression. She loves how working with a small team allows her to have a meaningful role in shaping this story about an underreported subject.
May 8, 2023
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.
March 22, 2023
NYU Journalism Undergraduate Edward Franco Cracked the Top 20 List of the Hearst Awards Television News Winners
NYU Journalism undergraduate Edward Franco received 17th place in the Television News competition of the Hearst Awards with his two stories: "NYC protests denounce Russian invasion of Ukraine" and "What you missed around NYU this summer," which ran in the Washington Square News.
March 17, 2023
Eat Bitter, A Film Co-Written & Produced by NewsDoc Alum Mathieu Faure, Is Having its World Premiere Next Week.
About the Film: Against the backdrop of the civil war in the Central African Republic, a Chinese construction manager and local African laborer work on opposite ends of the spectrum to construct a sparkling new bank. As deadlines loom, unexpected twists threaten their jobs, relationships, and plans for a better life. The film has been selected for recognition in Visions du Réel, a prestigious documentary film festival held in Nyon, Switzerland. NewsDoc Alum Mathieu Faure is the executive producer, producer, co-writer and co-editor of this feature documentary.
February 3, 2023
Hearst Explanatory Reporting Winner Announced
NYU senior Rachel Cohen took Tenth Place in the Explanatory Reporting Competition of the 2022-2023 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Her winning story, "How the Navajo Nation Beat Back Covid," was published in The Nation. She is NYU's third winner in the nationwide undergraduate writing competition for the academic year, which puts NYU in sixth place.
January 10, 2023
Maham Asan, MA 2019
Maham Hasan has joined The New York Times as a member of the Editing Residency. Previously, she worked at Vanity Fair as a web producer and newsletter editor since 2019. She also was an occasional books reporter and excerpts editor at the magazine.
January 10, 2023
Sydney Fishman, MA 2020
San Francisco’s KCBS Radio hired Sydney Fishman as a multimedia producer. In this role, Sydney works on developing podcasts, editing video content, audio production and storytelling. In her spare time, she does freelance work for NPR affiliate KALW Radio and KCRW Radio in Los Angeles and writes for local publications Berkeleyside and Oaklandside in the East Bay.
December 15, 2022
Two winners in Hearst Awards top 20
Two NYU undergraduate journalism students were announced as winners in the Feature Writing Competition of the 2022-2023 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Jules Roscoe, a junior, placed 13th in the competition for their story "UPS Workers Share Horror Stories About Driving in Heat," published by VICE Motherboard. Sophomore Natalie Jonas came in 19th for her Salon article "Why more people are seeking out 'ego death' via psychedelic drug." For the year, NYU Journalism students have won seven Hearst awards, which set a new university record.
November 4, 2022
Aala Abdullahi, MA 2020
As part of her work as the innovation editor for Sahan Journal, Studio 20 alumna Aala Abdullahi launched a new Somali newsletter for the community in Minnesota in October 2022. She also leads the newsroom’s experimentation efforts around new news products that serve the needs of immigrants, refugees and communities of color in the U.S. Her community engagement project called "Citizen Lab" was one of 25 community and audience engagement projects funded by the Google News Initiative and won the LION community engagement award in 2021.
November 4, 2022
Jiale Hu, MA 2023
Jiale Hu’s short documentary “Songs for You, Always” was selected for the Queens World Film Festival. It was made during her TV Reporting II class about a professional Soprano who has dedicated her life singing at nursing homes in NYC. Jiale’s previous short documentary Mama Yen (2019) was also selected for the Queens World Film Festival in 2020.
October 24, 2022
Jordan Goldberg, MA 2022
Jordan Goldberg was hired as an Associate Editor at Editorialist where she works across the publication’s beauty and fashion verticals. In this role, Jordan covers news in both categories, works to ensure SEO optimization on live stories, and creates social media content for the publication’s site and social media. You can check out her work at Editorialist.com
October 17, 2022
Zijia Eleanor Song, MA 2021
Bloomberg hired Zijia Song as a rotational reporter following her successful internship at this organization. In this role, she has learned about news automation, worked on breaking newsdesk and explained daily price moves for metals and written about lumber, bird flu and crop insurance.
October 17, 2022
Melanie Eszter, BA 2022
New York City News 12 Networks hired Melanie Eszter as a multimedia journalist covering the city. Melanie had perfected her reel and landed the job through the 2022 NYU Journalism Career Fair. Melanie took multimedia journalism and graduated with a broadcast concentration.
May 12, 2022
Diana Kruzman, MA 2021, GloJo
Diana Kruzman, a recent graduate of the Global & Joint Program (Near East studies), is one of 13 students selected by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) for their 2022 journalism program.
April 29, 2022
Emma Li, BA 2020
Emma Li joined NBC as an Associate Reporter, where she works to verify user-generated content from social media on NBC News’ Emmy award-winning Social Newsgathering team. Prior to joining NBC, she was at Storyful, a fact-checker at The Wall Street Journal, and a contributor for publications including Highsnobiety and V Magazine.
April 22, 2022
Catalina Gonella, BA 2018
WNYC hired Catalina Gonella as a night reporter. Her knowledge of capturing live audio as well as her news-writing chops make Catalina uniquely suited to expand WNYC’s radio and digital coverage into the later hours. Prior to this role, Catalina covered breaking news at the New York Post. Before that she worked at NY1, a job she landed thanks to her NYU and NAHJ connections.
April 22, 2022
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, MA 2021, Studio 20
Documented hired Ralph Thomassaint Joseph as a Caribbean Community Correspondent. Ralph says he got the job thanks to his NYU network, and he will be working directly with another Studio 20 alum. Ralph has a decade of journalism experience and co-created the news section of the Haitian digital news media site , where he worked as editor-in-chief for four years.
April 6, 2022
Sabrina Franza, BA 2018
CBS2 News in Chicago (WBBM) hired Sabrina Franza as a reporter. Before this role and since graduating NYU, she worked as a reporter with News 12 Networks covering New York City – a job she found at the NYU Journalism Career Fair. Her investigations uncovered disorganization within the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board, which oversees NYPD complaints, and has exposed mismanagement in city government resulting in unnecessary COVID-related fines to small businesses which prompted new legislation to help those businesses at the city level.
March 1, 2022
Nina Huang, BA 2019
Nina Huang is a lifestyle ecommerce writer at Dotdash Meredith. She writes about beauty, fashion, food and entertainment products for PEOPLE, InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, and other Dotdash Meredith-owned publications. She credits the NYU journalism department and its career services office for her internship with Marie Claire which expanded her network, refined her interests, and helped lead to her current position.