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Mission Statement
Our class began just as any other first day of school,
on September 11, at 8:30am. Fifteen minutes later our
lives changed forever. In the days and weeks following
the attacks, our shock and grief found an outlet in
the creation of this online magazine, Ripples.
This small team of New York University students represents
a wide spectrum of concerns, cultures, and backgrounds.
We scoured the city, compiling a myriad of articles
both responding to and moving forward from September
11.
In times of tragedy it is often hardest to express oneself
in words. As students of journalism we have taken it
upon ourselves to make our voices and the voices of
New York heard in the aftermath of the attacks.
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Press Release
December 11, 2001
On September 11th, 2001 the world
changed forever. That morning, fifteen
journalism students were starting
their first day of Online Reporting
when word hit the journalism department
that two planes had crashed into the
World Trade Center. Our class work,
and our lives, would from now on relate
to this day.
Now, exactly three months later, our
undergraduate Online Journalism class
is proud to launch "Ripples:
three months and two miles away."
Since our second meeting, we
decided that our magazine had to be
about the ripples created by the attacks.
As journalists, we probed into security
issues, questioned how to deal with
our pain, and explored the crisis
both in terms of and beyond its impact
on New York and the American people.
The topics covered are as varied as
the students in the class. How are
freshman at NYU handling the emotional
shock? How is the foreign press covering
America's war on terror? What should
a parent tell the child who watched
the towers fall? These are just some
of the difficult issues tackled by
Ripples.
"Ripples: three months and two
miles away" will launch Tuesday
morning, December 11. The address
of the magazine is http://journalism.fas.nyu.edu/opensource/ripples.
For more information, please contact
Jessica O'Brien at jlo3@nyu.edu.
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