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Columbia News Service Launches

October 30, 2020

Columbia Journalism School is excited to announce the launch of Columbia News Service, a digital news platform featuring exceptional work by graduate students.

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Investigating 'Whose Vote Counts' with the Voter Access Project

October 20, 2020

For more than a year, postgraduate fellows from the Columbia Journalism Investigations Voter Access Project have partnered with USA Today Network and PBS Frontline to investigate issues surrounding voter disenfranchisement in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. In this Q&A, we find out how they investigated the stories behind the documentary "Whose Vote Counts."

On Oct. 20, FRONTLINE, Columbia & USA TODAY NETWORK Reporters Investigate ‘Whose Vote Counts’

October 16, 2020

The culmination of months of collaborative reporting from FRONTLINE (PBS), Columbia Journalism School, Columbia Journalism Investigations and reporters from the USA TODAY NETWORK, "Whose Vote Counts" premieres Tuesday, Oct. 20.

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Columbia Journalism Opens Applications to its Renowned Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program

October 15, 2020

Applications for the redesigned Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program led by Corey Ford are now open.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize and WERT Prize for Outstanding Global Business Journalism by a Female Journalist

October 14, 2020

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announces the winners of its signature prizes.

Columbia Journalism School Welcomes Winnie O'Kelley as New Dean of Academic Affairs

October 5, 2020

Dean of Columbia Journalism School Stephen Coll announced today that Winnie O’Kelley, a veteran journalist and editor who has overseen prize-winning investigative reporting in business and economics and who serves as an Executive Editor of Bloomberg News, will become the next Dean of Academic Affairs beginning Jan. 1.

Celebrate International Podcast Day with These 8 Alumni-Produced Series

September 30, 2020

It's International Podcast Day. Celebrate by listening to one of these eight podcasts with alumni producers on the team.

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New York Times Science and Health Reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. Wins Prestigious 2020 John Chancellor Award

September 29, 2020

Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and health reporter at The New York Times, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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Maria Moors Cabot Prize Jury Condemns Escalation of Attacks on El Faro and Carlos Dada / El Jurado del Premio Maria Moors Cabot condena la escalada de ataques contra El Faro y Carlos Dada

September 29, 2020

The Maria Moors Cabot Prize Jury strongly condemns the escalation of attacks, threats and intimidation by the government of El Salvador and its followers targeting El Faro and its founder, Mr. Carlos Dada, a member of the Cabot Jury who was awarded the Cabot Prize in 2011 for his outstanding journalism.

El Jurado del Premio Maria Moors Cabot condena enérgicamente la escalada de ataques, amenazas e intimidación por parte del gobierno de El Salvador y sus seguidores contra El Faro y su fundador, el señor Carlos Dada, integrante del Jurado quien recibió el Premio Cabot en 2011 por la excelencia de su trabajo periodístico.

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Center for Global Journalism Established at Columbia Journalism School

September 28, 2020

Columbia Journalism School today announced the creation of the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism which will prepare journalists to work, think and report globally.

Members of Columbia Journalism School Community Demand Polk County Attorney's Office Dismiss Charges Against Alumna Andrea Sahouri

September 28, 2020

Faculty, staff, alumni and students of Columbia Journalism School have signed the following letter demanding charges facing Andrea Sahouri, a 2019 alumna being charged for covering the George Floyd protests, be dropped.

John Haskins Joins Columbia Journalism School as Dean of Student Life

September 9, 2020

Columbia Journalism School is pleased to announce that John Haskins, an editor at The New York Times for more than three decades who currently directs the paper's Student Journalism Institute, a recruitment and training program that seeks to strengthen newsroom diversity, will be joining the J-School as our new Dean of Student Life.