The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York is a

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located in

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, or CUNY, the school opened in 2006. It is the only public graduate school of journalism in the

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. The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism grants three degrees, the

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in Journalism, Master of Arts in Social Journalism and the nation's first Master of Arts in Entrepreneurial Journalism. The school, which requires its MA in Journalism students to complete a summer

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at a news organization in order to graduate, places a heavy emphasis on practical skills and hands-on experience. Its faculty is drawn from current and former journalists at ''

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, among others. Sarah Bartlett is the Dean of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She succeeded in Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard on Jan. 1, 2014. Bartlett joined CUNY in 2002 as the Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism at Baruch College. She moved to the Journalism School in 2006, after serving on its original curriculum committee. She created and oversaw both the Urban Reporting and the Business & Economics subject concentrations and helped found the school’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media. Her journalism career has included editorial positions at ''Fortune, BusinessWeek'', and ''The New York Times'' and she also served as editor-in-chief of Oxygen Media. In June 2018, the school announced it would be change its name from the City University of New York's CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to the

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Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, after the

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founder donated $20 million to the school's foundation.

History

The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the Graduate School of Journalism's creation in May 2004. Proposed by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, the school was to focus on teaching reporting skills and

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at a time when other journalism schools were emphasizing education in academic disciplines such as

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and

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. After a search that weighed dozens of journalists and educators, former ''

'' editor-in-chief Stephen B. Shepard was chosen as the school's first dean. Goldstein and Shephard had worked together before; as head of CUNY's research foundation, Goldstein helped ''BusinessWeek'' formulate its business school rankings in the 1980s. Former New York ''Daily News'' editor Pete Hamill was also among those considered. The school admitted its first class, comprising 57 students, in the fall of 2006. Dean Baquet, now executive editor of ''The New York Times'', spoke at the school's first graduation ceremony in December 2007 and received an

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. Veteran broadcast journalist and presidential aide

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addressed students at the school's second graduation commencement ceremony a year later.

Governance

Beside faculty, staff, and administrative, the student body elects representatives to a Governance Council. The by-laws and other relevant materials are on the Governance Council page.

Campus

The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is located in

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, near

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. It is housed in the former headquarters of ''

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,'' on West 40th Street which CUNY purchased in August 2004 for $60 million. Renovation of the building cost $10.7 million and took place at the same time that ''

'' was building a new, 52-story office tower to house its headquarters next door. The campus building houses a newsroom with seats for 130, a broadcast studio, several multimedia editing suites, a library and research center with 1,500 books on journalism, as well as numerous classrooms. In 2006, the school hosted a reunion of about 100 former ''New York Herald Tribune'' journalists gathered to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the paper's closing in 1966. The school has also provided a space for several professional conferences for journalists, including the Networked Journalism Summit in October 2007, and an October 2008 conference on new business models for news organizations.

Curriculum

The school's three-semester MA in Journalism program formerly included media tracks in print, interactive and broadcast, though in March 2009 the requirement to choose a track was removed. It also offers subject concentrations in health/science, business/economics, arts/culture, urban, and international reporting. Students participate in a paid summer internship the summer between their second and third semester.

Student life

Short-form and spot news stories appear on the school's award-winnin
NYCity News Service
which runs stories written by students. It also has an online publication for long-form stories
219 Magazine
named after the building's Manhattan address on West 40th Street. Students also contribute stories to the Bronx-based neighborhood papers Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express, which are run by faculty member Bernard L. Stein.

Notable alumni

* Adeola Fayehun * Nico Grant - Technology reporter at the New York Times. * Daisy Rosario - *

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- Formerly host of The Takeaway on

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, formerly

Lena Masri
- Investigative reporter for

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in London * Kenyon Farrow - Journalist and Activist. Senior Editor of The Body and The Body Pro.

Notes and references

External links

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