Director’s Spring 2020 Welcome Letter
Journalism Program Director Sissel McCarthy welcomes back students and faculty with her start-of-term letter. Get news about new faculty, new courses, upcoming events and more.
Career Opportunities
Students, Start Planning Your ‘Pulitzer’ Now
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.
Award-winning reporter meets with Hunter journalism students
Susan Ferriss, a senior reporter at the non-profit investigative news operation Center for Public Integrity, met with a select group of a dozen Hunter College journalism students to share insight from her years within the news business. Get inside tips about her investigative techniques and her advice to aspiring journalists.
Social Media & Journalism Workshop Set for Nov. 7
Join a Nov. 7 workshop that teaches how to integrate social media into your journalism. The workshop is being organized by The Society of Professional Journalists and the Facebook Journalism Project, and taught by udience engagement and homepage editor at the New York Daily News. RSVP here.
Journalism Students, Faculty Gather at Pizza Party
It was a full house at the Oct. 23 Journalism Program party, where more than three dozen faculty and students discussed the future of the journalism program at Hunter College. Find out about new spring course offerings and newly named adjunct faculty members.
Pizza Party: Dine on Journalism Program ‘Menu’
RSVP for a journalism concentration pizza party on Oct. 23, where you'll learn about upcoming courses, meet new faculty and hear from our latest Pulitzer Center fellow.
James Beard Foundation Gannett Fellowship Application
The James Beard Foundation and Gannett Foundation are launching a new media fellowship program to train students from underrepresented minority backgrounds to be food and drinks journalists.
Refinery29 Summer News Fellowship
Refinery29 is looking for summer news fellows for a news program it is developing in association with the Google News Initiative. Deadline to apply is April 30.
Conference to Help Student Journalists Better Cover Social Movements
The New School and Nation Magazine are hosting a national conference for student journalists on May 31, 2019. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until April 21.
Pulitzer Center Picks Hunter Student For Fellowship
The Pulitzer Center has awarded one of its prestigious summer reporting fellowship to Hunter journalism student Audrey Henson (pictured, left). The fellowship comes with a $3,000 grant that Henson will use to travel to Japan to report on dementia treatments.