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NYU NewsDoc alums Mona El-Naggar and Veda Shastri Part of NYT Video Team to Win Edward Murrow Award
Both Mona El-Naggar and Veda Shastri were present as this year's Edward Murrow Awards, both representing the New York Times video unit.
NYU NewsDoc alum Megan Thompson’s PBS News Hour Story: Artist William Wegman and His Weimaraner Muses
Megan Thomson released a piece about a Massachusetts native and NYC resident William Wegman, who creates art inspired by his two dogs.
Preeti Mankar Screens Her Film at This Year’s Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
Preeti Mankar is officially in the film festival circuit, bringing her film […]
Congratulations to News and Documentary alum Haya Fatima Iqbal
Haya Fatima Iqbal helped produce the film A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, that won the Emmy on 10/5 for Best Documentary
Sara Goldblatt Producers Showtime Series, Active Shooter: America Under Fire
Premiering tonight on ShowTime, Sara Goldblatt producers Active Shooter: America Under Fire.
Congratulations to NYU Journalism NewsDoc Graduate April Fan for winning this year’s Student Academy Award for Best Documentary
April Fan's film, One Way Home, is about the cultural cost of a free Chinese education for Tibetan students.
NYU NewsDoc alum Joseph Israel Laban Has Officially Entered the World of Fiction, Winning Big at Cinemalaya
Joseph Israel Laban's film "Baconaua," won three major awards at the Cinemalaya Awards Night: Special Jury Prize, Best Director and Best Cinematography.
NYU NewsDoc Alumni Rack Up Seven Emmy Nominations
Our alumni are well represented in this year's Emmy nomination pool, with seven total nominations from four different alumni.
NewsDoc Alumna Nanfu Wang and Adjunct Kirsten Johnson made the Oscar Feature Documentary short list
Congratulations to Newsdoc alum Nanfu Wang for Hooligan Sparrow and Newsdoc Adjunct Professor Kirsten Johnson for Cameraperson.
NewsDoc Alumna Nanfu Wang wins Emerging Filmmaker award
News & Documentary Alumna Nanfu Wang, director of Hooligan Sparrow, will receive the IDA’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.
NewsDoc Alumni Wins Student Academy Award
Rongfei Guo won a medal in the "Documentary" category for Fairy Tales, which chronicles the life of a working-class woman from rural China whose eccentric fashion designs, posted on Weibo, the country's largest social media site, turned her into an overnight Internet celebrity.
Frontline and NYU Present Chernobyl VR Doc
30 years after the disaster, explore the ruins of Chernobyl through the eyes of one of its young survivors. FRONTLINE and New York University present “Return to Chernobyl” -- an original 360° documentary.