Documented launches a training program to help more newsrooms serve immigrant audiences
NIEMAN REPORTS—Documented, the nonprofit newsroom that covers New York’s immigrant communities, receives lots of requests to help newsrooms in other states and countries produce news with and for immigrants. The company sees that as an opportunity to spread its model, which includes publishing on platforms like WhatsApp, NextDoor, and WeChat. On Friday, it announced the first cohort of […]
At a Moment of Urgency and Possibility
NEW YORK, NY — 1/9/2026 —A Joint Letter to Our Grantees, Partners, and Colleagues As we look ahead to the new year, we write together to mark an important moment in the life of The Charles H. Revson Foundation—one defined by continuity, stewardship, and renewal. After eighteen years of extraordinary leadership, Julie Sandorf passes the […]
Op-Ed | New York wants to save local news. They’re forgetting about nonprofits and public media
AMNY—Communities across New York have grossly inadequate local news coverage. The national collapse of local and community news has led to a 75 percent drop in the number of local journalists since 2002 – and a shocking 28 counties in New York are below even the anemic national average. Fortunately, last year the state legislature […]
Youth Media and the Future of News
NIEMAN REPORTS—The journalism industry is losing future generations — here’s what we can do In my 16 years building the PBS News Student Reporting Labs (SRL), I’ve never been more anxious about the future. Not only is journalism shedding jobs and desperately searching for new business models while press freedoms melt away, but the majority […]
Maria Torres-Springer Appointed President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation
NEW YORK, NY — 9/15/2025 — The Board of Trustees of the Charles H. Revson Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as President. She will succeed Julie Sandorf, who previously expressed her intention to step down at the end of the year. “The Revson Foundation has always stood for the belief that ideas and […]
The Battle for Press Freedom in the Streets
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW—New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement. Last month Carroll Bogert, the newly named chief executive of The City, a nonprofit digital news site that covers New York, sent a letter to the local field directors of Immigration and Customs […]
From Israel to Morocco to an HBCU in New Orleans, these Jewish artists are searching for home
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY—Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen teach the most popular elective at Xavier University. At least for now. The class does not begin with a lecture. Instead, Neta Elkayam stands at the front of the room and sings. Usually in the Moroccan Arabic of her ancestors, rather than her native Hebrew. The students […]
Q&A with Co-Chair of the Mamdani Transition Team
DOCUMENTED—Maria Torres-Springer talks about her own immigrant family and how the new administration will co-design with immigrants and other New Yorkers to create economic and workforce development projects. Journalist Aurora Martinez interviewed Maria Torres-Springer, the incoming President of the Revson Foundation and Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Co-Chair, for Documented. The conversation took place at the NYCETC […]
Safeguarding Democracy by Defending Free Speech and Enabling a Vibrant Press
FORUM—Mark Jackson ’85 remembers the framed newspaper article prominently displayed in the house where he grew up. It told the story of his father, a journalist, being “thrown out” of a Long Beach, Long Island city council meeting after he publicly objected to the council going into executive session. Mark’s father, Paul Jackson, cited the […]
It’s time to restore the civic function of US universities
FINANCIAL TIMES—Focusing on research at the expense of teaching has left institutions vulnerable to Trumpian attack The writer is professor and chair of the political science department at the City College of New York and Executive Director of its Moynihan Center The dirty secret of elite higher education in the US is that, long before […]