A new online platform dedicated to news literacy is up and running, courtesy of Hunter's Journalism Program Director Sissel McCarthy. She created the site to help journalism students and others develop what she considers a new core competency.
Leading political observer and commentator Jonathan Alter was guest speaker at the Feature Writing class Sept. 12. A journalist, filmmaker and bestselling author, and currently a contributing correspondent and political analyst for NBC and MSNBC, Alter gave students some tough advice about making it in journalism.
Feature Writing Professor Douglas Alden, a successful journalist, producer and entrepreneur, started as an aimless college student. Find out what got him on track, in this "Professor Profile."
Journalism student Maria Luisa Imbachi has been named winner of the the Aronson Award for Undergraduate Journalism. Find out what topic Imbachi covered to win her the coveted Aronson.
Journalism Director Sissel McCarthy introduces a half-dozen new adjunct faculty who will be teaching fall courses ranging from feature writing to news video reporting. Plus, she shares Hunter journalism events coming up in October and November. Find out more about what's in store this term in her Fall 2019 Welcome Letter.
Journalism’s MEDIA 211, also known as “News Literacy in A Digital Age,” is now the fourth class that Hunter students can use to fulfill the CUNY Common Core English Composition 2 requirement.
Lloyd Siegel, a 44-year veteran journalist of NBC News, visited Professor Sissel McCarthy’s Studio News Production class and offered praise for the latest Hunter News Now show.
A panel discussion scheduled for May 21 at Hunter College will address an ongoing crisis for journalists in Mexico, who are being harassed and killed. The event is organized in part by the Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, based out of Hunter.
A pioneering young interactive storyteller joined students in Professor Adam Glenn’s Mobile Journalism MEDPL 387 course in mid-April to talk about her award-winning work and the possibilities for cutting-edge immersive media technologies.
New York Times writer Nathaniel Rich visited with Hunter journalism students after a talk about his climate change reporting to an audience of 150 at Roosevelt House April 8.
News 12 Brooklyn’s multimedia journalist Emily Lorsch offered MEDPL 202 Reporting and Writing 2 students tips on working under pressure and on deadline during a classroom visit on April 8.
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.
News 12 anchor and reporter Jessica Cunnington talked about that meteoric rise from an entry-level reporting job to the nation's No. 1 market with Prof. Sissel McCarthy’s "Hunter News Now" students.
Women and Media Career Summit kicks off on Friday, April 12. Current students and recent grads are invited for a full-day of forum highlighting opportunities in areas of the business where women are traditionally under-represented.
Prominent journalists at a gathering on the "power of narrative" this past weekend warned that crucial voices and context are missing in the journalism profession, while at the same time offering up recipes for repairing the gap through more diverse hiring, and better reporting, interviewing and storytelling.
