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For Prof. Sally Hership's Radio Workshop, Ali Swenson, '19 M.S., reported bill introduced in the New York State Capitol that would split the state in three.

Do Upstate & Brexit Share Similar Separatist Forces? One Bill in Albany Says 'Yes'

Red Hook Terminal, photo by Adi Talwar via CityLimits

Masha Udensiva-Brenner, '21 Part-time M.S., reported on the potential environmental and economic impact of a $100 million plan to overhaul New York City's freight distribution system as part of Dolores Barclay's reporting class. The story was published on CityLimits.org.

Sarah Blaskey, '17 M.S. Stabile, traveled to Central America to follow the trail of illegal shark finning companies that not only violate international covenants but are also guilty of employing slave labor.

Hunting the ghost fleet

Columbia Journalism School's Sarah Wyman Searches for a Better Way of Living with Dementia

After the death of her grandfather from complications of vascular dementia, Sarah Wyman, '18 M.S., searched for a better way of living with the disease. This is what she found.

Life Outside the Lines - Creating Art with Dementia

Wufei Yu, '19 M.S., reported on the struggles of Nepali immigrants facing deportation after the Trump administration announced an end to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nepalis this summer as an assignment for professor Dale Maharidge's Reporting class. The article was published in the Kathmandu Post, one of the largest English language papers in Nepal.

A young man in hoodie and gloves wires on a telephone line

In MESH, '18 M.S. students Arjun Srivatsa and Bridget Hickey report on Tony Baizan, a Bronx teen building a decentralized Wi-Fi network capable of withstanding natural disasters caused by climate change.

M.S. Documentary students Ingrid Holmquist and Sana A. Malik won the 2019 Best Documentary at the BAFTA Student Film Award for Guanajuato Norte about a man from Guanajuato, Mexico working on a Connecticut farm and contending with being away from his family and home for years in order to support their dreams and build them a new life.

Still from Documentary: Trouble Finds You by Stephanie Tangkilisan depicting male graduate in cap and gown kissing woman

The film Trouble Finds You by Stephanie Tangkilisan, '18 M.S. Documentary, tells the story of an MBA student whose life is derailed when he is indicted in New York's largest gang takedown. The film won the Vital Projects Criminal Justice Grant and was published by The Intercept.

WIRED: Americans Identified by Twitter as Russian Bots

As part of Susan McGregor's Investigative Techniques course, students in the M.S. Data and Dual M.S. concentrations wrote about Americans banned from Twitter after their accounts were flagged as bots tied to Russia's Internet Research Agency. Their story was published in the July 2018 edition of WIRED.

Bianca Fortis, '19 M.S. Stabile, writes for Citylimits.org about the state's requirement that the city pump oxygen into the Newtown Creek, a superfund site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to help maintain aquatic life. Critics think the aeration systems installed in the creek may be concerning for public health, because the action pumps bacteria into the air.

Since the Covering Religion class began in 2001, classes have gone to Russia, India, Jordan and Palestine, Italy, Israel, and Ireland and Northern Ireland. The trips build on reporting students have done in New York. Multimedia work done by the class of 2017 appears at Sangam: Reporting on the religions of India. The Covering Religion class of 2018 traveled to Israel, and its reporting can be found at Godland.

Cassandra Basler, '15 M.S., follows two students from the Bronx as they decide if an intrauterine device (IUD) is right for them, a device that has become the frontline recommendation for teens nationwide.