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The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at the Columbia Journalism School announces the 2020 Ira A. Lipman Fellows, Ann Marie Cunningham and Clair MacDougall.

Four distinguished journalists were selected for the next group of Spencer Fellows in Education Reporting for the 2020-2021 academic year, the first year Columbia Journalism School has expanded its traditional residential fellowship to include two non-residential options.

Columbia Journalism School announces the launch of a new fellowship honoring the prize-winning reporter and alumnus Tony Horwitz, and which will fund the reporting of graduates from the previous decade.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, responding to a news media job market in crisis due to the COVID-19 virus, is collaborating with two non-profit news organizations to provide graduating students with paid internships and reporting grants to support their transitions to professional journalism.

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.