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Announcing the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists

March 18, 2020

Important Message: New Columbia Policy on Field Reporting

March 15, 2020

The university issued updated guidance today that will affect our policy about field and in-person reporting for the remainder of the semester.

The headline is that effective immediately, no J-School students or researchers should conduct in-person reporting, filming, recording or interviews for Columbia classes or projects. The university expects that this restriction will last 6-8 weeks but it may revise that as circumstances change.

Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist

February 25, 2020

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2020 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998, honor the best in American nonfiction writing.

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Introducing The Year of Fear by Columbia Journalism Review & The Delacorte Review

February 11, 2020

In the wake of dwindling local news sources, CJR & the Delacorte Review take weekly look at four American towns on the way to November.

Columbia Journalism’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship and Women’s Economic Round Table Opens Nominations for The WERT Prize, honoring Global Business Reporting by a Female Journalist

January 23, 2020

Nominations for the WERT Prize, honoring excellence in business journalism by a woman for work that fosters a greater understanding of global business, are now open. The prize is presented by the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School in partnership with the Women’s Economic Round Table (WERT).

Columbia Journalism Names Winners of 2020 Alumni Awards

January 16, 2020

Dean Steve Coll and the Alumni Association of the Columbia Journalism School are proud to announce the recipients of the 2020 Alumni Awards.

Columbia Journalism School's 2019 Year in Review

December 19, 2019

The past twelve months have marked an exciting time at Columbia Journalism School. Here is a look back at the year's most important moments.

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2020 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners Announced: Public Media Garners Top Wins

December 11, 2019

Columbia Journalism School announced the 16 winners of the 2020 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The winners will be awarded their Silver Batons at Low Memorial Library on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in a ceremony hosted by CNN and PBS's Christiane Amanpour and The New York Times The Daily's Michael Barbaro. This is Columbia Journalism School’s 50th year hosting the duPont-Columbia Awards.

Investigative Reporting Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint: How Columbia Journalism Grads Investigated the Perils of Online Dating

December 4, 2019

Postgraduate fellows Keith Cousins, '18 M.A. Politics, Elizabeth Naismith Picciani, '19 M.S., and Hillary Flynn, '18 M.S., talk about their recent investigation in ProPublica "Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use The App. It's Not the Only One."

Columbia Journalism School Names Former Reuters Reporter, Grace Li, as the 2019-20 Nikkei Scholarship Winner

November 29, 2019

The $100,000 scholarship is awarded annually to exceptional journalism school candidates with the desire to specialize in data or business reporting. Nikkei Inc. is the parent company of the Financial Times, the publisher of Nikkei, and the Nikkei Asian Review.

How to investigate a story that has been covered before? Find a new lens that will make people care

November 10, 2019

Columbia Journalism Investigations fellow, Ali Raj ('18 M.A), talks about how he expanded on and found new evidence about the impact of U.S. nuclear testing on the Marshallese, who are still suffering from exposure to radioactive fallout and the presence of radioiodine in the Marshall Islands.

Columbia University Receives Grant to Support New Curricula on Technology Design

October 30, 2019

Award from the Public Interest Technology University Network is part of $3 million “Network Challenge” to grow the field of public interest technology.