Alumni Profiles

NewsDoc Alum Jane Caffrey is an anchor at local news station WDBJ7
Jane Caffrey co-anchors and produces the 11 p.m. newscast on Your Hometown Station.

Alumni France Costrel and Mathieu Faure share their experiences at NYU NewsDoc
Watch interviews with two alumni about their experiences at NYU NewsDoc

Dara Brown On the Changing Face of Broadcast News
It’s 9:30 on a Saturday night and NYU Journalism alum Dara Brown’s cell phone alarm chimes— it’s time to go to hair and makeup.

Q&A with NewsDoc Alumnus Aaron Howell
Aaron Howell is an alumnus of the 2010 NewsDoc Class.

A Need to be Human: NewsDoc Alum Claire Ward on Connecting with Characters
Interview conducted and written by Kelsey Doyle

NewsDoc Alum Steven McCann: The Capacity For Doing It All
Like many first semester graduate students at NYU’s Institute of Journalism, Steven McCann had found his passion, but specifying what his exact niche was within the field of News and Documentary remained undetermined.

VICE China Producer and NewsDoc alum Joshua Frank talks getting into the field
"As a producer at VICE China in Beijing, I create, shoot, and edit short documentaries and branded videos for Chinese and occasionally English audiences."

NewsDoc Alum Haya Fatima Iqbal: Producing independent documentaries in Pakistan
We asked Haya about her work in Pakistan and her path from NYU.

NewsDoc Alum Kristen Kiraly: Go above and beyond, partake in everything
Interview conducted and edited by Kelsey Doyle

NewsDoc Alum Loretta van derHorst: Go where you can get the most experience and responsibility
We caught up with alumna Loretta van derHorst ('2011) who worked as a Line Producer on Huesos Que Hablan (Bones that Talk), a documentary for the Discovery Channel that was recently nominated for an Emmy under 'Outstanding investigative journalism in Spanish.'

NewsDoc Alumni update: Where they are now
NewsDoc alums Claire Ward, Leon Huang, Megan Thompson, David McKenzie, Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, and Johanna Hamilton

NewsDoc Alumna Kate Thomas revisits her thesis documentary with her own travel entertainment
Combining her training with on-camera hosting and producing, alumna Kate Thomas has launched her own site, Travel with Kate, specializing in inspirational travel entertainment.