Emmanuel Felton: An Unconventional Journey into Journalism
Professor Emmanuel Felton grew up with a keen interest in the world around him, but it wasn’t until Hurricane Katrina…
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Hunter Students Take News Literacy to London
Professor Sissel McCarthy and students in her News Literacy in a Digital Age course toured the BBC newsroom in London…
Film and Media Department Acquires Sony Equipment
Courtesy of Luke Mess
The Film and Media Studies Department has partnered with Sony to acquire new and updated audiovisual…
Reporting and Writing 2 Students Visit The New York Times and WNYC/Gothamist
Professor Seyma Bayram’s Reporting and Writing 2 class wrapped up the spring 2026 semester with visits to The New York…
Prof. McCarthy hosts 2025 Foreign Press Awards
Professor Sissel McCarthy hosted the 2025 Foreign Press Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The annual awards…
News Literacy Students Visit CUNY TV
Students in Professor Sissel McCarthy’s Media 211 News Literacy in a Digital Age class went behind the scenes at CUNY…
RW1 Students Visit the Nasdaq
In mid-November, students from Monica Malpass’s Reporting and Writing class visited the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square, where they got…
Faculty Spotlight: Amy Levine-Kennedy
There are journalists who knew that’s what they wanted to do practically from the day they were born. Amy Levine-Kennedy…
The Journalism Dept. Mourns the Passing of Blanca Vázquez
On October 25th, Hunter College and the Department of Film and Media Studies held a memorial for Blanca Vázquez, a…
New Faculty Position Now Open
The Department of Film and Media Studies is hiring a new professor to join its full-time journalism faculty. This tenure-track…
Kelsey Russell to Speak at Hunter
On Wednesday, October 8th, media literacy influencer Kelsey Russell will join Professor David Alm in the Lang Auditorium to discuss…
Prof. Sterling’s RW1 Class Visits NYT, Hosted by Astead Herndon
The New York Times national politics reporter and host of “The Run Up” podcast Astead Herndon gave Professor Anna Sterling’s…
CUNY TV’s Café con Felo explores AI in the classroom with Professor Sissel McCarthy
Professor Sissel McCarthy appeared on the CUNY TV program Café con Felo, where she discussed the usage of AI in…
Pulitzer Center Talk at The Roosevelt House: Journalist and Author Lauren Markham on ‘Monitoring AI Technology at the Border & Beyond’
Credit: Pulitzer Center
Pulitzer Center grantee Lauren Markham will join Professor Sissel McCarthy on April 23rd from 6-8 PM at…
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship announced
Julia Wysokinska, a 20-year-old sophomore at Hunter College, has won the 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting fellowship to report on efforts…
Sebastian Fraccari wins the Jack Newfield Investigative Journalism Scholarship
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a weekday when Sebastian Fraccari walks into his studio broadcast journalism class at Hunter College—groggy and…
Prof. Khristopher Brooks to Teach New business journalism class at Hunter
Brooks on CBS News MoneyWatch
This fall, Professor Khristopher Brooks will teach Business and Economic Reporting at Hunter College for…
At Hunter Alumni Weekend, Professor McCarthy On How to Use (and not abuse) Generative AI
Professor Sissel McCarthy gave Hunter alums a primer on artificial intelligence at the college’s first Alumni Weekend reunion in five…
Faculty Spotlight: Lambeth Hochwald
Professor Lambeth Hochwald
Professor Lambeth Hochwald has returned to Hunter College to teach Entertainment Journalism for the second time. The…
CUNY’s CIE comes to Hunter’s Journalism Program
Jeenie Ahn with students taking From Classroom to Career
The Journalism Program at Hunter College has been invited to be…