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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 New York Times, Nika Simovich Fisher, '22 Part-time M.S., profiled the pioneering user interface designer Loretta Staples.
A Pioneer of Digital Design Looks Back on a Defining Era
Marco Dalla Stella, '21 M.S., reported his master's thesis on conditions in Italy's privatized migrant detention centers. It was published by Frontiere News.
Forgotten in a Detention Center for Migrants in Italy
A story Jeremy Fassler, '21 M.S., wrote for his first-semester reporting class on how the pandemic has led to thousands of performers losing health care coverage was published on the front page of the New York Times.
The Virus Cost Performers Their Work, Then Their Health Coverage
For NPR's All Things Considered, Masha Udensiva-Brenner, '21 Part-time M.S., reports on a gay Azerbaijani asylum-seeker caught in the backlog during the Trump era. The story began as her master's project.
Trump Years Were Terrifying For Gay Asylum-Seeker
For Covering Education, Cayla Bamberger, '20 M.S., wrote about the crucial role school libraries play in students' lives.
What’s Missing When the School Library Closes?
Kasturi Pananjady, '20 M.S. Data, investigated physical accessibility in NYC schools for the 2020 Covering Education course and fewer school buildings were accessible than public data suggests.
Access Delayed, Access Denied
For the 2020 Covering Education course, Jenna Gyimesi, '20 M.S., reported on the difficulty of recording attendance — and making that attendance meaningful— as NYC schools went remote during the pandemic.
Attendance is More than a Number
The 14 students in Prof. Joanne Faryon's Spring 2020 Cross-Platform Investigative Journalism course produced this investigative podcast on forgotten news stories from 1990s NYC.
Shoe Leather Podcast
For BBC World, Larry Madowo, '20 M.A. Business, reported on how Jumia, the start-up dubbed "the Amazon of Africa," is still trying to deliver on that promise.
Jumia: The e-commerce start-up that fell from grace
Daniel Avis and Vidhi Choudhary, both '20 M.A. Business, found a lack of training, guidance and access to tests impeded a plan to make New York City pharmacies COVID-19 test sites.
Cuomo’s Pharmacy COVID Testing Prescription Remains Unfilled
With ninety days left before he ages out of foster care, Alex has to get it together, or risk going back to the world he’s trying to escape. A film by Christina Shaman and Anakha Arikara, both '19 M.S. Documentary.
Aged and Confused
Diana Chan and Christina Kelso, both '19 M.S. Documentary, highlight the struggle of a student and principal at a unique Brooklyn school that teaches students to counsel each other through their mistakes.
In Circles