News
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Capturing the 2013 Commencement ceremony on Storify
5/20/2013
View a Storify curation of the graduation celebration for the Class of 2013!
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Khadeeja Safdar M.A. Business '13 publishes master's thesis in The Atlantic
5/20/2013
Khadeeja Safdar, an M.A. student in the business concentration, has published her master's thesis in The Atlantic on Facebook.
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Jake Pearson Stabile '09 followed the global trail of online pharmacies for Wired Magazine
5/20/2013
This week, Wired Magazine featured the astonishing story of David Anthony Whittaker, a convicted con man who pulled off a federal sting that got Google to pay the Department of Justice a $500-million fine. The story was written by Jake Pearson, from the Stabile class of 2009, who began following the global trail of online pharmacies as part of a project for the Stabile investigative seminar.
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ProPublica's Nikole Hannah-Jones wins 2013 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award
5/20/2013
ProPublica's Nikole Hannah-Jones is the winner of the 2013 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award for her 13-part web series, “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America,” in which Hannah-Jones details the federal government's failure to enforce the Fair Housing Act, which is intended to remove barriers for blacks and Latinos in affluent neighborhoods.
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Sheri Fink wins 2013 Mike Berger Award
5/20/2013
Sheri Fink will receive the 2013 Mike Berger Award, for a set of pieces written for the New York Times, ProPublica, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune exploring the catastrophic consequences of bureaucratic, structural, and political failures during the deadly hurricane season of 2012.
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Barry J. Whyte Stabile '10 releases e-book examining boxing's 24-hour weigh-in
5/14/2013
"Making the Weight: Boxing’s Lethal Secret" by Barry J. Whyte (Stabile ’10) examines the 24-hour weigh-in, a controversial system that is used widely in professional boxing.
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2012-2013 McCormick Scholarship Winners Honored at Reuters
5/7/2013
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students Donna M. Owens, Sonia Paul and Valerie Hopkins – the 2012-2013 McCormick Scholarship winners - were honored at a reception hosted by Reuters.
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Alumni Giving Challenge
5/2/2013
Every gift to the Annual Fund makes a tremendous difference in the lives of Columbia Journalism School students.
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2013-14 Knight-Bagehot Fellows announced
4/29/2013
Ten Knight-Bagehot Fellows in economics and business journalism have been named by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the 2013-2014 academic year. They include journalists from The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, American Banker, The Morning Call, National Journal and other news organizations in Washington, D.C., China, Nepal and Ghana.
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Recap of Open House for Classes of 2014 & 2015
4/23/2013
The J-School welcomed the full-time class of 2014 and part-time class of 2015 at Open House on April 19 and 20.
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2013 Lukas Awards announced
4/18/2013
Andrew Solomon, an author with an interest in emotional health, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his book that explores what it’s like for children to be markedly "different" from their parents. Robert Caro, a Pulitzer Prize- winning writer, won the Mark Lynton History Prize for his profound understanding of Lyndon Johnson. The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award was won by reporter Beth Macy for her book about a Virginia furniture store owner threatened with the loss of his business.
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Student Clip Report, April 2013
4/17/2013
A digest of Columbia Journalism School students' published work for April '13
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Yearlong centennial celebration comes to a close at the New York Public Library
4/16/2013
The J-School’s centennial yearlong celebration came to a close on Friday, April 12 at the New York Public Library with more than 500 guests attending a supper dinner and reception.
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J-School alumni among 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists
4/16/2013
The 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced by Columbia University on April 22, 2013.
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View the recording: Hearst Digital Media Lecture with Amanda Cox
4/11/2013
Join us for the annual Hearst Digital Media Lecture by our Hearst New Media Professional in Residence, Amanda Cox, award-winning Graphics Editor at The New York Times. The Hearst Digital Media Lecture is an annual event about the state of digital journalism. The evening includes introductory remarks and presentation of the Innovator Award by Mark Hansen, Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation.
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J-School announces 2013-14 Spencer Fellows
4/9/2013
Columbia Journalism School has named three journalists as the 2013- 2014 Spencer Fellows in Education Reporting to pursue projects that will examine the impact of evaluating teacher preparation programs, the Obama administration’s competitive grant programs, and why American undergraduates are not learning critical thinking skills in their college years
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Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma announce 2013 Dart Award Winners
4/3/2013
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia Journalism School, today announced the winners of the 2013 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. This year’s winners are: the Los Angeles Times; and the collaborative team of Pro Publica, Fundación MEPI and This American Life. Honorable mentions go to The York Daily Record, The New York Times ‘At War’ Blog and The New York Times Magazine.
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J-School holds largest Career Expo in its history
4/1/2013
As the Journalism School prepares to end its yearlong centennial celebration, it set a new major milestone Saturday by staging the largest career fair in the school's history. The 135 companies that sent 275 recruiters to Columbia Journalism School Career Expo to meet soon-to-be graduates created an overflow eventin Roone Arledge Auditorium, establishing this as the largest journalism school job fair in the nation.
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Celebrating the J-School centennial: 100 Great Stories
4/1/2013
In fall 2011, we enlisted our faculty and a group of distinguished judges to vote for their favorites on the first installment of 50 Great Stories. Then, in 2012, we invited alumni to nominate and vote on the selections they thought most worthy of inclusion. The result is this compilation.
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Academic Dean Bill Grueskin speaks at the Atlanta Press Club
3/26/2013
Bill Grueskin, the Columbia J-School dean of academic affairs, spoke to a crowd at the Atlanta Press Club, Tuesday, March 19. In his 30 minute remarks, he contrasted the experience of two reporters at premier newspapers with social media and lessons for others.
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Anthony Lewis, journalist and scholar, dies at 85
3/25/2013
Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times reporter and columnist and Columbia Journalism School adjunct professor, has died at age 85.
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Steve Coll appointed Dean of Journalism School
3/18/2013
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll as the new Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, effective July 1, 2013. Coll replaces Nicholas Lemann, who has served as dean since 2003.
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Chicago Tribune reporters win 2012 John B. Oakes Award
3/14/2013
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced today that Chicago Tribune reporters Patricia Callahan, Michael Hawthorne and Sam Roe have won the 2012 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism for their year-long investigative series “Playing with Fire.”
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The J-School mourns the loss of Toni Stabile
3/13/2013
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Yoani Sánchez visits J-School 3/14
3/12/2013
After years of being blocked from leaving Cuba, blogger Yoani Sánchez made her first U.S. appearance March 14 at Columbia Journalism School. After brief remarks, she engaged in conversation with Professor Mirta Ojito, and then took questions.
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Prof. Alexander Stille releases family memoir
3/7/2013
Alexander Stille, the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, has released a memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace.