Student Academy Award Winners
Eleven graduate students have won Student Academy Awards. You could be next.
In-Depth Documentary Training from Day One
NYU’s News & Documentary (NewsDoc) program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is for the curious, the natural observers who strive to dig deep and tell the unexplored stories of the world. Over three semesters, they learn in-depth writing, reporting, filmmaking, and editing techniques from day one, work with professional documentary makers in the business, and graduate ready to take on positions in news and documentary organizations or as independent filmmakers.
Curriculum
A NewsDoc education builds on a strong reporting foundation with training in the tools and techniques that transform students into reporters and producers of both long- and short-form journalism. Here, you’ll work with a broad range of faculty who are award-winning reporters, and filmmakers, and you’ll gain exposure to the best documentary makers in the business in our Master Class series.
Faculty
Marcia Rock
Associate Professor | NewsDoc, Director
Marcia Rock’s documentaries cover international dilemmas, women’s issues as well as personal perspectives. She’s won three NY Emmy Awards. Her recent documentary, UnReined, is about Nancy Zeitlin, a fearless Israeli equestrian champion who started the first Palestinian equestrian team after the Oslo Accords. Rock produced three films on veterans, Soldiers Period is a humorous short debunking myths about PMS, Warriors Return focuses on Navajo veterans and SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home about women transitioning from active duty to civilian life, that won a NY Emmy and distributed on PBS stations. From the plight of salt harvesters in Ghana to the changing role of women in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, She has covered Irish American and Northern Irish history producing Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories (1997) that won many awards including the AWRT Grand Documentary Award. McSorley’s New York, tells the story of the NY Irish through the patrons of the bar and won a NY Emmy. Dancing with My Father, explores how adult love is shaped by what a child learns at home. Surrender Tango is a documentary on how tango can be a metaphor for relationships.
Jason Samuels
Professor
Executive Producer, Journalist, Full Time Faculty
Jason Samuels is a tenured journalism professor and an Emmy Award-winning television news and documentary producer. During his distinguished career, he has worked as a staff producer at ABC News, NBC News, CNN, ESPN, HBO, and Black Entertainment Television (BET).
Currently, Samuels works as a senior executive producer and consultant at Paramount Global where he has led the development and production of a slate of critically acclaimed primetime news specials, documentaries and docuseries for BET including: Black America Votes: The Biden Interview, Dream Team: Birth of the Modern Athlete, Black + Iconic: Style Gods, Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement, Smoke: Marijuana and Black America and Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama.
Jason Maloney
Clinical Professor | Director, GlobalBeat
Jason Maloney is an award-winning cameraman, editor and news and documentary producer specializing in foreign affairs coverage. His work has appeared on ABC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, HDNet, PBS, Nytimes.com and Time.com. He teaches courses on multi-media production and international crisis reporting. In 2014, he launched GlobalBeat, NYU’s international reporting program that brings graduate students overseas for hands-on video reporting.
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Jane Stone
Professor | NewsDoc
Jane Stone specializes in legal affairs journalism and investigative reporting. She has worked for NBC Dateline, CBS’s 60 Minutes, Walter Cronkite’s documentary company, CNN, and PBS’s Frontline. Her journalism has been recognized with several journalism awards, including a national Emmy for investigative reporting. She was awarded NYU’s Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.
Students
Each NewsDoc cohort features a small and talented group of bright and innovative students from around the globe who collaborate, critique, and support one another as they work to tell the compelling stories of our time.
Program News
NewsDoc Alum Contessa Gayles’ feature film, Songs from the Hole, premiered earlier this year.
The film will show in NYC at the Urbanworld Film Festival on Saturday 11/16 at 4:30PM at the Regal Union Square.
NYU Journalism alum Jaime Villarreal released “Mon Laferte, te amo”, a Netflix documentary that tells the story of Mon Laferte, the artist who overcame a life of abuse to revolutionize music in Latin America.
Filmed over a three-year period in which the artist was intimately portrayed, this documentary was created and produced by Jaime Villarreal, creative director and founder of Blackstar Content.
NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain won a 2024 Student Academy Award.
Of the 2683 films submitted, Rishabh's documentary film, "A Dream Called Khushi" was one of three to win the award in the Documentary category. Rishabh's win marks NewsDoc's 11th student academy award win.