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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
For the Fall Business Seminar, Shant Shahrigian, '19 M.A. Business, wrote about a New York City politician who returned donations from oil interests.
Green New Deal champion Costa Constantinides accepts Oil Heat PAC cash, gives it up when called out
Joanne Faryon and LynNell Hancock's Fall 2019 M.S. Reporting section produced a multipart investigation of the Bronx housing court that looked into the lack of legal resources for tenants and other issues.
Housing Injustice: Struggling for Shelter in Bronx Housing Court
For the Spring 2018 session of Reporting in Conflict Zones, Clara Wend McMichael, '18 M.S., wrote an analysis for Global Comment on the high-cost U.S. "kingpin strategy" of capturing or killing the heads of Mexican criminal organizations.
Mexico’s kingpin strategy: A costly failure
Eileen Grench, '18 M.S., reported her master's project on the Trump Administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans living in the U.S. She continued reporting on the issue after graduation and published this story with Documented.
On Long Island, Salvadorans Brace for Impact
On primary election day September 2018, students in the Reporting section taught by Profs. Ann Cooper and Samir Patel spoke with immigrant voters across New York City. Their street reporting was published by Documented, a site devoted to immigration issues in New York founded by CJS '16 alums.
Javier Sauras, '16 M.A. Politics, published several stories stemming from his Master's Thesis, about a program in Bolivia that combines modern maternity medicine with traditional indigenous practices.
How One Bolivian Hospital is Battling Maternal Mortality - By Reaching Back Thousands of Years
A Master's Project by Ariel Ritchin, '16 M.S., takes a hard look at what it takes to make bail.
He talks about his Audio Storytelling experience.
Natasa Bansagi, '16 M.S., reports on how regulations turned "vapers" into activists.
Read how her article came to be published in Motherboard.
Amy Lieberman, '14 M.A. Politics, wrote her thesis on Arizona's immigration patrol rebellion.
Read the published article in Slate.
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.
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.
Caroline Spivack, '16 M.S., reported on women who are first responders in humanitarian actions.
Read the Global Citizen Press article.