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Award-winning Nanfu Wang back in town with her latest film!

"One Child Nation" has screenings at Tribeca Film Festival.

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Two NYU Journalism NewsDoc alums, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize

“One Child Nation” is a documentary about China’s policy of forcibly restricting family size.

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NewsDoc grad Mathieu Faure wins student Academy Award for his thesis documentary, An Edited Life

Mathieu Faure wins the big one, the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary! His documentary, An Edited Life is now eligible for an Oscar nomination.

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Two films from recent NewsDoc graduates were selected for the Margaret Mead Film Festival in October

Jing Liu's "Her Words" and Tsering Wangmo's "Tibetan Nomads in Exile" will be shown at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in the American Museum of Natural History in October.

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Two NewsDoc students are finalists for the 2018 Student Academy Awards

Veronica Wangshen's "1,500 Miles 23 Days" and Mathieu Faure's "An Edited Life" are finalists in the Documentary (Domestic Film Schools) category.

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NewsDoc alum Alice Xue Yu’s film “Family Meal, NYC” nominated for James Beard Award

Congratulations to alum Alice Xue Yu, whose interactive piece Family Meal, NYC for CNN earned a James Beard Award nomination.

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Shehzhad Hameed Ahmad releases doc on Nepal’s Child Brides

Congratulationsto NewsDoc alum Shehzhad Hameed Ahmad, whose documentary Nepal's Child Brides is now live on Channel NewsAsia.

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NewsDoc Alum Mona El-Naggar’s “The Story of Esraa” featured at Women’s International Film Festival

Mona El-Naggar’s short doc, The Story of Esraa, was featured at the 2018 Women’s International Film Festival on March 10, 2018.

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NYU NewsDoc Alum Kaitlin Sprague screens doc “Our Brother Jordan”

The event, which was presented by Samaritans NYC and the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, focused on the ways mental health and suicide are presented in the media and how reporters can responsibly cover mental health issues.

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NYU NewsDoc Alum Contessa Gayle produces Women Who March: The Sequel for CNN

The Women’s March on Washington and hundreds of sister marches across the […]

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NYU NewsDoc alum Nanfu Wang’s “I Am Another You” on Independent Lens on PBS

Nanfu Wang's newest film, I Am Another You premiered on Independent Lens on PBS on January 29 and is now streaming.

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NYU NewsDoc alum Yamiche Alcindor joins PBS NewsHour as White House correspondent

Congratulations to Yamiche Alcindor, formerly a national political reporter for The New York Times, who joined the “PBS NewsHour” as its White House correspondent on January 16, 2018.

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