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Columbia Journalism Review’s New Art Installation 'Flood The News' Puts a Spotlight on the Media’s Coverage of Climate Change

September 16, 2019

Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), the media industry’s leading press criticism publication, will unveil “Flood the News: Bringing the Climate Change Crisis to the Front Page,” an exhibit in collaboration with renowned visual artist, Joan Wong, at the Foley Gallery in New York City on Tuesday, September 17. The exhibition tackles the media’s coverage of climate change, an issue at the heart of CJR’s Covering Climate Change initiative.

Oakes Award Honors Exceptional Environmental Reporting

September 12, 2019

Columbia Journalism School honored the winners and finalists of the 2019 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism on Mon. Sept. 9.

Columbia Journalism Names 2019 Postgraduate Reporting Fellows

September 5, 2019

The CJI postgraduate reporting program has a dual mission of supporting extraordinary recent graduates as well as helping to meet the gap for talent and investigative resources that burdens today’s newsrooms.

Author of Groundbreaking Local News Crisis Research, Penelope Muse Abernathy, Named as the 2019 Welles Memorial Prize Winner

September 4, 2019

Muse Abernathy’s research is being honored by the Knight-Bagehot Advisory Board for its impact on the journalism profession, and its role in raising the alarm and prompting an industry-wide call-to-action about the local news crisis. The Welles Prize is given annually to an alum of the Knight Bagehot Fellowship, now in its 44th year. Muse Abernathy is a graduate of the Fellowship from 1985.

Announcing the 2019-2020 Google News Initiative Newsroom Leadership Program Fellows

August 15, 2019

Meet the 2019-2020 fellows of the Google News Initiative Newsroom Leadership Program, a program designed to enhance the leadership skills and decision-making capacity of emerging journalists in the Asia-Pacific region.

InsideClimate News Wins 2019 John B. Oakes Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting

July 24, 2019

The Oakes Award, founded in 1993 by family, friends and colleagues of John B. Oakes (1913-2001), is given annually for news reporting that makes an exceptional contribution to the public’s understanding of environmental issues. Oakes was an environmental journalism pioneer and an editorial writer for The New York Times.

Photo: Godofredo A Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer

Alumni Spotlight: Covering Immigration in the Trump Era

July 19, 2019

Two weeks ago President Trump tweeted, again, that ICE would conduct raids targeting undocumented immigrants over the weekend. Once again reporters fanned out and prepared to cover the far-reaching implications of such actions, but the raids did not materialize. Lomi Kriel,’11 M.A., is the immigration reporter for the Houston Chronicle. She talks about what it’s like to be on the frontlines of one of the most demanding beats in journalism right now.

Columbia Journalism School Announces Maria Moors Cabot Prize Winners Honoring Outstanding Reporting in Latin America and The Caribbean

July 17, 2019

The Cabot Prizes honor journalists for career excellence and coverage of the Western Hemisphere that furthers inter-American understanding. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston founded the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes as a memorial to his wife in 1938. They are the oldest international journalism awards.

Anuncio de los ganadores del Premio Maria Moors Cabot de 2019

July 17, 2019

La Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia anunció los ganadores de los Premios Maria Moors Cabot de 2019 por sus destacados informes sobre las Américas.

Columbia Journalism School Graduates, Ingrid Holmquist and Sana Malik, Awarded the BAFTA Student Film Award for Documentary

July 16, 2019

The filmmaking duo from the 10th Documentary Specialization class takes home the school's first BAFTA award.

Reuters Journalist, Lisa Girion, Named as the Inaugural Winner of Columbia Journalism School’s WERT Prize for Outstanding Global Business Journalism

June 24, 2019

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowships in Economics and Business at Columbia University has named Lisa Girion of Reuters as the inaugural recipient of the WERT Prize, dedicated to honoring excellence in business reporting and writing by a woman journalist.

PODCAST: Just Scratching the Surface: Selin Thomas on Reporting Century-Old Racial Violence in The Delacorte Review Issue 2

June 24, 2019

The Delacorte Review is back with its second issue, focused on the theme Silence. In the first podcast from Issue 2, Michael Shapiro interviews Selin Thomas about her story "A Haunting."