A blueprint for expanding journalism access in high schools
AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE—Taylor McGraw, Executive Director and co-founder of The Bell and a leader of the NYC Youth Journalism Coalition, has published a new article in the American Press Institute outlining a scalable model to expand journalism access in high schools. In “A blueprint for expanding journalism access in high schools,” McGraw describes the urgent […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just 90 NYC high schools offer journalism classes. A new movement is trying to change that.
CHALKBEAT NEW YORK—Brooklyn English teacher Sydney Kukoda launched her new journalism elective class last week with an unconventional assignment. She emptied the contents of her wallet onto a desk and asked her students to investigate, take notes, and then write a short biography of her based on facts they had independently verified. … The lesson […]
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Launches Free “Journalism for All” High School Curriculum
CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM—The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY today announced the launch of the Journalism for All curriculum — a free, year-long high school journalism curriculum designed to expand access to media education at a time of growing misinformation and mistrust. The curriculum—set to be taught in 30 New […]
Building the skills to engage with the world: Youth have their say at NYC Youth Journalism Coalition
EDITOR & PUBLISHER — Fredlove Deshommes, a student at Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in New York City, decided to tell a better story about her school than the story The New York Post ran under the headline, “School of Glock,” reporting on a student bringing a gun to school. “I was participating […]
Some NYC Teens Have a New Hobby: The School Paper
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — When Ally Dolores was in ninth grade at Pace High School, in Manhattan’s Chinatown, her English teacher dropped a print newspaper in her lap. She’d never opened one. “I was like, ‘Where did he get this from?’ I was so confused,” Dolores said. The teacher, David Rohlfing, had witnessed the school’s […]
NYC Policy Directs $72 Million to Community Media Over Five Years, New Report Finds
CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM — A new report by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism spotlights the transformative impact of New York City’s groundbreaking legislation supporting community media outlets, and the role of the school’s Advertising Boost Initiative in bridging implementation gaps. It also recommends significant changes to bring more transparency to […]
Brooklyn Public Library Opens Its 10th Iteration of Making Space
November 9, 2023— When we first began developing Making Space in 2017, it was conceived as a system-wide, urban-scale transformation of Brooklyn Public Library’s community rooms. We designed this highly flexible architecture as a kit of modifiable components, adapted to the programmatic and spatial needs of each new location. After the initial success of six […]