Student Work | Columbia Journalism School

For his Master's Thesis, Ben Taub, '15 M.A. Politics, reported on European teens who joined ISIS. It became the lead story in The New Yorker, where Taub is now a staff writer.

Learn how the story came together.

Vanessa Quirk '15 M.A. Arts & Culture SW

Vanessa Quirk, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis about an underground park called the Lowline in New York City. It was published in Atlas Obscura.

Read about how the work came together.

Katie Worth, '15 M.A. Politics, revealed the imprecise science of DNA testing in court in her Master's thesis, which was co-published Frontline, The Marshall Project and Fusion.

Read the published article in Fusion.

Carmen Graciela Díaz, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote about theater in Hungary during a funded reporting trip with 12 other students.

Read her feature article.

Brian Mastroianni, ’14 M.A. Arts & Culture, turned a curiosity about miming into a thesis published in The Atlantic.

Read about his path to publish in The Atlantic magazine.

For her Master's Thesis, Khadeeja Safdar, '13 M.A. Business, investigated the Facebook IPO - and showed that it wasn't disastrous for everyone. Her piece was published by The Atlantic.

Watch as she explains how the story unfolded.

Davide Casati, ’14 M.A. Business, followed a story about an arrest of an accountant at The Vatican for his thesis and published it in The New York Times.

Read how his thesis got published in The New York Times.