Come celebrate Student Press Freedom Day with student journalists from The Envoy, The Athenian, WHCS and Hunter News Now. The event takes place outside the cafeteria in Hunter West on Wednesday, Jan. 29, from 11:30a-1:30 p.m.
Hunter journalism students visited with a top New York Post video news executive Nov. 26 to get an eyeful on what makes the operation tick, along with tips on the leading tabloid’s internship program. Find out what key skill the news VP emphasized.
Hunter Journalism’s Neighborhood News class visited the Tribeca headquarters of New York Public Radio in November, and got job-seeking advice from a staffer.
Students in Prof. Sissel McCarthy’s news literacy class toured Bloomberg’s headquarters on Dec. 9 and met with Hunter alum Mike Nizza, the executive editor of BloombergPolitics.com.
Get to work over the break on your proposal for an overseas reporting fellowship for summer 2020. One Hunter Journalism student will be selected for the $3,000 Pulitzer Center grant. Deadline to apply is Feb. 28. Get the details.
The Associated Press has just added listings for a paid six-month full-time internship at its New York Health and Science Desk and for a religion intern, in addition to its array of open positions for a Summer 2020 global news general assignment intern in various cities, including New York. Note that the health and science and the religion internships are for December 2019 graduates or for those graduating by summer 2020. Deadline to apply for all Summer 2020 is Dec. 21.
Senior ProPublica editor Eric Umansky spoke to Hunter news literacy students on Nov. 14 about verifying information, using his own experience investigating an incident involving the New York Police Department on Halloween as a teachable moment. Find out what happened that night and what tools he used to gather details.
J.D. Biersdorfer, known primarily as a technology writer for the New York Times, as well as a contributor to the Times’ Sunday Book Review section, was the latest in a line of accomplished journalists to visit this semester’s feature writing class. Find out what type of feature story she said entry-level writers are often asked to master.
If you are an aspiring anchor, reporter or producer, seats are still available for this spring's MEDPL 388: Studio News Production (Wednesdays, 10:10 a.m. to 1 p.m.). Learn more about the signing up for the class, which teaches you how to anchor and produce a live newscast for the Hunter community.
CNN's New York operation now has spring 2020 internships available with CNN.com Photo Desk, Network Booking, Social TV, Great Big Story Programming & Social, and CNN Digital Product. Get the details and find out how to apply.
Financial Times' New York newsroom now has a slot for a summer internship, as well as an audience engagement summer intern and a video production summer intern. audience engagement summer intern and a video production summer intern. New York. Deadline is Jan. 10, 2020. Find out qualifications and how to apply.
Marie Claire’s features department is looking to hire bright, detail-oriented editorial interns for the spring of 2020 (starting early Jan). Get more details and find out how to apply.
Veteran journalist Stephanie Siek spoke to Hunter’s News Literacy classes on Nov. 13 about verification, objectivity and forging a path as a journalist of color in some of the country’s most prestigious newsrooms.
The American Society of Magazine Editors has opened applications for its 10-week summer magazine internship program for rising college seniors at magazines in New York and Washington. Get the details and apply by the Dec. 1 deadline.
City & State, a magazine and online site covering New York politics, is seeking a spring editorial intern. Deadline to apply is Nov. 25. Find out more.
Ad Age is seeking a high-energy editorial intern interested in business journalism with a special focus on marketing, tech and pop-culture. Find out more.
Hunter College Journalism Program Director Sissel McCarthy kicked off an Association of Foreign Correspondents USA inaugural awards and scholarship ceremony at the Roosevelt House on Nov. 4 with a speech about the growing threat to journalism and journalists here and abroad. Here's what she asked listeners to do about it.
A new course being launched this spring will equip students to report on the growing news beat at the intersection of urban environmental and public health issues. Find out what's at stake and how the new class will equip students to cover it.
