Four Moynihan Public Service Fellows Named Valedictorians and Salutatorians
The Moynihan Center—Four Moynihan Public Service Fellows at The City College of New York have been named valedictorians and salutatorians of their divisions in the Class of 2026—an achievement that reflects both academic excellence and a strong commitment to public service. The honorees include Kathryn Gioiosa and Pop Joslaine Manos, who were named valedictorians, and […]
NYC Green Fund Awards $397,000 in Grassroots Grants to Community Park Groups Across New York City
NYC Green Fund—City Parks Foundation and Partnerships for Parks have announced the recipients of the spring 2026 NYC Green Fund Grassroots grant program, providing $397,000 in funding to 60 community groups volunteering in parks and open spaces across New York City. Founded during the COVID‑19 pandemic, the NYC Green Fund is a pooled grant program […]
Welcoming the 2026 Moynihan Center Public Service Fellowship Recipients
The Moynihan Center—Twenty-Five City College Students Join the Moynihan Center as Public Service Fellows The Moynihan Center at The City College of New York (CCNY) announces its 2026–2027 cohort of Moynihan Public Service Fellows. Twenty-five undergraduates, drawn from across CCNY’s schools and disciplines, will enter a two-year program of cohort-based seminars, mentorship, and fully funded summer […]
New York Focus Is Suing the State Prison Agency
NEW YORK FOCUS—Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse. For the past year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate have been working together to report on the extraordinary number of sexual abuse allegations made by people held in New York prisons in a flood of lawsuits under the Adult Survivors […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monday’s Headlines: Permanent Paseo Edition
STREETSBLOG NYC—Sunday was a celebration by and for the people of Jackson Heights as the 34th Avenue open street — the city’s self-proclaimed “gold standard” of car-light spaces — was officially co-named “Paseo Park.” The name isn’t new, of course, the Department of Transportation has been using that name for the stretch between 69th Street […]