Institute News
AJO Student Wins New York Press Association Award
Lynn Hallarman (AJO 2024) and her editor won 3rd Prize for Local Government Coverage at this year's New York Press Association Awards. Lynn's work appeared in the Port Times Record.
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Marlene Sanders Award in Journalism
The Marlene Sanders Award is presented to a student whose work goes beyond good grades and exemplifies the spirit, love of journalism, energy and drive of pioneering journalist, Marlene Sanders.
Hannah Beckler (GloJo 2019) won the 2024 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.
Beckler is a Senior Investigations Editor at Business Insider. Her piece investigates the violent use of police dogs in prison.
The first episode of Prof. Chenjerai Kumanyika’s eight-part audio documentary, Empire City, was selected as an Official Selection for the Audio Storytelling program of the Tribeca Festival.
"As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City will tell you where the police came from. From Peabody award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika, Empire City digs into the origin story of the world’s largest police force: the NYPD. Chenjerai takes listeners on a journey from narratives of Black abolitionists fighting slave patrols, to the story of two rival police forces duking it out at City Hall, to the origins of the true crime genre." TribecaTribeca
Professor Hilke Schellmann’s Podcast with the MIT Technology Review is a Finalist for the Deadline Club Awards
Results will be announced on May 16th.
2023 SHERP Graduates Calli McMurray and Gina Jiménez-Rios Win Awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists
McMurray’s story was published in the Texas Observer, while Jiménez-Rios’ was published in The 19th and KFF Health News.
Shayla Love, a contributor the The Guardian and Psyche, has been named the winner of NYU Journalism’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
Love, the tenth winner of the annual award, is the first to hold a bachelor’s degree from NYU (in journalism and art history). She will use the grant to pursue a story on non-traditional, and controversial, pathways to develop new medications and health treatments.
Prof. Rachel L. Swarns Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The Academy, founded in 1780, honors exceptional scholars elected through an extensive process, and sponsors academic research endeavors. Prof. Swarns was elected to Class V – Leadership, Policy, and Communications, under Section 1 - Journalism, Media, and Communications.
NYU Journalism major David Cheung was a winner in this year’s Multimedia Enterprise competition of the Hearst Awards.
Cheung's 7-minute piece, a video deep dive into New York City’s Chinese Opera Scene, finished in 13th Place. It was Cheung's second win of the 2023-24 season. He was also a finalist in the category for Multimedia Narrative Storytelling. The win marks NYU Journalism's fifth of the year.
NewsDoc alum Giorgio Ghiotto won the Non Fiction Series student Emmy for his thesis documentary, Wings of Dust
Giorgio also won theThe Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award, given to only one of the winners, with an award of $4000. He follows in the footsteps of Shuhao Tse who won these award last year.
The NYU Journalism major Stacia Datskovska placed in the top 20 of this year’s Personality/Profile writing competition for Hearst Awards.
Datskovska's intimate look into the life of a female firefighter and boxer, Nicole Malpeso: The Pride of Staten Island, which was published on Cooper Squared, reached No. 13 on the list. This was Hearst's fourth and last writing competition of the year.
Hilke Schellmann’s investigation on gender bias in AI-based visual classifiers for the Guardian was a finalist for a SABEW (Best in Business Award; Technology).
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing(SABEW) awarded Professor Schellmann's piece an honorable mention in the technology category.