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J-School students have produced wide-ranging reporting on the pandemic, 2020 election and more. Visit Columbia News Service to read more of their work. Photo: Reed Young, '22 Part-time M.S.
Student Work

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.
Caroline Spivack, '16 M.S., reported on women who are first responders in humanitarian actions.
Read the Global Citizen Press article.
U.S. presidents have extraordinary powers, including granting clemency. President Obama commuted the federal sentences of 348 people. Shandukani Mulaudzi, ’16 M.S., brings us one of their stories for Life of the Law.
Read the Global Citizen Press article.
Annika Hammerschlag, '16 M.S., reported on women who compete in the Olympics and face discrimination at home.
Read the Global Citizen Press article.
Sarah Ravani, '16 M.S., reported on a campaign to raise awareness of abuses against the Baha’i community in New York.
Read the NY City Lens article.
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.
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.