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ROM to , students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism continued to break new ground with their summer internship experiences. This past summer, students from the Class of 2009 forged relationships with new internship partners, including Al Jazeera English and WRXP-FM in New York, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, of India in Mumbai, in Brussels, and the in Moscow. They also worked with familiar Femployers such as NBC Local Integrated Media, , and WNYC radio. “Employers continue to compliment our students on their work,” said William Chang, the J-School’s director of career services. “I’m already looking forward to seeing where the next class will land internships.” The paid summer internship program is a unique feature of the CUNY J-School. As part of the curriculum, all students work as interns for professional media organizations between the second and third semesters. The practical work experience is its own reward, and it becomes a huge plus when new graduates make their way into the job market. But the School makes the deal even sweeter by guaranteeing all interns are paid at least $3,000 for 10 or 12 weeks of labor. Twice during the summer, students are required to file reports with the J-School on their internship adventures. What follows are excerpts from some of the Class of ‘09 reports.

Nicholas Martinez borhood in the greater Buffalo area. A Aisha Al-Muslim, WKBW-TV, Buffalo worked with the reporter and a photographer were sent out pros at NBC News. T SEVERAL MEDIA CONVENTIONS I attended, and I tagged along. We listened to the journalists warned that their business was changing. I scanner as we drove to the location of the Acould see some of the signs during my summer robbery to find out who the police were looking for, descrip- internship at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. On a Sunday night, only tions of the armed gunman, and the status of locating him. Nicholas C. Martinez, NBC News, New York a director of operations and a producer were in the control I found that being able to listen to over 10 scanners going Y EXPERIENCES at NBC ranged from the mun- room. I expected at least eight people like I saw at my intern- off at the same time could be an asset to any station. Most dane to the exciting: from logging b-roll for a story ship at WABC-TV in . people in the newsroom can’t decipher the messages sent over Mon a cancer research to chasing down flight atten- At WKBW, the director preprogrammed the camera shots the radio. If I learned to do it as a reporter, I would be a dants at Newark Airport all the while streaming live video and was in charge tremendous help back to the WNBC control room. of operating the to any assign- I covered former President George H.W. Bush’s ritual birth- cameras during the ment editor. day skydive, pitched stories to NBC Nightly News, WNBC, show. But it wasn’t I have learned and the Today Show, and even bumped into Late Night’s always like that. over time that Jimmy Fallon in the NBC hallways - literally. Management had newsrooms all What will I remember most? Well, I had a chance to lunch made the decision over the country with a Nightly News correspondent at a Friendly’s in to cut production make different Connecticut - and he paid the bill. jobs in order to ethical decisions. Here's the story: Ron Allen pitched a story about Muslim reduce spending. At the station Americans' reactions to President Obama's speech in Cairo in That same night, where I interned, June. I was asked to help him research mosques in Newark, NJ. what was sup- and He found a Muslim family in Connecticut who produced posed to be the 11 Myspace were religious sensitivity and awareness videos for law enforcement o’clock news was used only to and medical institutions nationwide. Since I helped them do pre-taped because help locate a research on the couple and log video for snappy quotes, he and management was subject, but his producer Carla Marcus brought me along to Hartford as concerned that if information or Aisha Al-Muslim Ron worked his magic: He interviewed the couple in their an NBA Finals pictures accessi- reports for Channel 7 home and shadowed them as they attended Friday prayers at game went into ble on the page in Buffalo. their local mosque. overtime, they were not used in It was a day of firsts for me: I ended up taking the first yel- would have to pay any story. I think low taxicab ride of my life. I attended my first Muslim prayer employees over- this is a smart service (shoeless I might add,) and I had a look at the behind- time. and precautionary decision because anyone can be whoever the-scenes work that went into producing a Nightly News spot. I learned that the radio scanners are one way the assign- he or she wants to be online. When I went out in the field The story turned out great (it aired on the Weekend ment editors decide what should be covered. On the first day with a crew, I learned that you should not shoot on private Nightly News) and I had a chance to pick the brain of a very of my internship, a message came on the scanner about a property without permission, unless it is a shot of the door accomplished reporter and producer. He answered all of my “Mercy Flight.” I was told it meant that a serious accident just knocker. Also it is best to avoid shooting license plates because questions and gave me valuable insight into the world of a occurred because a Mercy Flight is called when an emergency they can identify people who might not be relevant. traveling foreign correspondent. He’s a good man, someone I involves a head injury. My internship at WKBW-TV was an eye-opening experi- am proud to say that I worked with. Another time a message came over the scanner about a ence into how a smaller newsroom works in comparison to a And I don’t say that only because he bought me lunch. bank robbery at a KeyBank in Williamsville, a wealthy neigh- larger market like New York City. Please turn to Page 5

• Dean’s Corner • Commencement • Recruiting • Report from • Thanks to our • School • New Yorker Editor Speaker Season Aspen Donors Notes Speaks IN THIS ISSUE Huffington to Speak Finding New Ways to Connect With Applicants

At ’09 Commencement T WAS A TYPICAL DAY at the CUNY J-School: a class attended the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in RIANNA HUFFINGTON, editor-in-chief and co- in news photography in one room, a freelance workshop Austin, Tex. While the admissions people were manning an Afounder of The Huffington Post, will be the keynote Iin another. Or was it? The month was August, not a information booth, the others were out reporting on the speaker at the Class of 2009’s graduation ceremony on time school is normally in session. And none of the 50 or so event and the city of Austin for a new web feature called December 16. students was even enrolled. They were all applicants to the Road Trip (roadtrip.journalism.cuny.edu/). Launched in May 2005, the HuffPost has become an J-School’s Class of 2011. Since then, whenever a team from the J-School has gone influential media web site covering politics, business, The two special seminars were among seven included in on an out-of-town trip, such as to the Deutsche Welle technology, entertainment, and the green movement. It August Academy, a first-time production of the Office of Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany in June or the is also a platform for thousands of bloggers who weigh in Admissions & Students Affairs. The admissions department National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention on a wide range of topics. is always looking for new ways to reach out to prospective in Tampa, FL in August, they’ve showcased their work on Huffington, who writes a nationally syndicated politi- students and the 2009 the Road Trip site. cal column for August Academy – “Such activities have Services, is a frequent television modeled on the suc- helped raise the J- commentator, with appearances cessful January School’s profile with on such shows as “Charlie Rose,” Academy enrichment potential students on “ Live,” and “The series for students - the national and O’Reilly Factor.” She is the author was one of several international stage,” of 12 books, including Right is innovative programs Dougherty said. Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe added to the recruit- The added recruit- Hijacked America, Shredded the ment calendar this ment efforts have sup- Constitution, and Made Us All year. plemented monthly Less Safe. “August Academy is information sessions In 2009, Forbes magazine meant to kick off a at the J-School as well named her to its list of Most long-term relationship as invitations for Influential Women in Media. She with applicants,” said Arianna Huffington prospective students has also appeared on the Time Admissions Director to sit in on classes and 100, Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the Stephen Dougherty. “It hear guest speakers. world. involves bringing them The admissions office “Arianna is very entrepreneurial, a valuable skill in this into our community to keeps them informed brave new world of journalism,” said Dean Stephen B. give them a first-hand Maya Pope-Chappell (Class of '09), Jego Armstrong ('07), Carla Murphy ('09), of application deadlines Shepard. understanding of the and Angela Hill ('07) at black journalists' convention in Tampa, FL in August. and special events Huffington will be the CUNY J-School’s third com- CUNY J-School through an email mencement speaker, following award-winning broadcast experience.” newsletter it sends out several times a year. journalist Bill Moyers in 2008 and , assis- Though fall is the traditional recruiting season, the School officials hope the extra outreach will pay off with tant managing editor and Washington bureau chief of CUNY J-School’s outreach starts well before then. more record-setting enrollment numbers. With 81 students, The New York Times, in 2007. Admissions staffers have been wracking up frequent flier the Class of 2010 is nearly 40% larger than the 2009 group The 2009 commencement will take place at the Times miles covering reporters’ conferences, professional meetings, that will graduate in December. Early signs are encouraging Center in the New York Times building. A reception will and graduate school fairs both at home and abroad all year. for the Class of 2011: Applications are running well ahead follow at the CUNY J-School next door. Last March, a delegation of students, faculty, and staff of where they were a year ago. Brown and Evans Chosen as Honorees for Next J-School Gala

Matthew Goldstein NE OF THE MOST cal web site that offers original con- released. Chancellor, The City formidable couples in the tent along with stories, blogs, and Queen Elizabeth knighted Evans in University of New York Howard Rubenstein President of Rubenstein Onews business videos from around 2004 and bestowed the title Stephen B. Shepard Associates will receive Lifetime the Internet. Commander of the British Empire on Dean Evans dropped out Brown in 2000 for their service to Arthur Siskind Senior Achievement Awards Judith Watson Adviser to . from the CUNY of school at age 15 to journalism. Associate Dean Chairman Graduate School of become a reporter in Last year, the CUNY J-School’s sec- World War II-era ond annual Awards for Richard Stengel Managing Journalism next spring. Editor of Time On May 10, 2010, the Britain. He worked Excellence in Board of Advisers for many years as Journalism honored David Westin President of School will honor Tina Roz Abrams WCBS-TV editor of The broadcast journal- News Anchor ABC News Brown, editor of Beast, and author Sunday Times in ist Barbara Dean Baquet Washington Mark Whitaker Washington London, where Walters. The Bureau Chief, Assistant Bureau Chief of NBC News Harold Evans for their long careers in journal- he quickly event grossed Managing Editor of The New Matthew Winkler Editor-in- became known nearly $350,000, York Times Chief of Bloomberg News ism both in England and the U.S. as a champion most of which Merrill Brown New Media Mortimer Zuckerman of investigative was used for stu- Consultant Chairman and Publisher of Brown has served as editor of The Tatler journalism. Evans dent scholar- David Carey Group the and later became the ships. U.S. News & World Report magazine, Vanity Fair, President, Condé Nast founding editor Publications and , of Condé Connie Television which won five Overseas Press Club Harold Evans and Tina Naste Journalist and Anchor INSIDESTORY Brown have had impressive Awards, four George Traveler Les Hinton CEO of Dow Amy Dunkin careers in journalism. magazine Jones & Co. Editor Polk awards, and 10 National Magazine and John Smock Publisher of Awards during her six-year tenure. worked as The New York Observer Photographer Since leaving The New Yorker in 1998, editorial director and Michael Oreskes Senior Rich Sheinaus she created Talk magazine, wrote the president of Random Managing Editor at the Graphic Design Director 2007 bestselling biography, The Diana House. His new memoir, Associated Press Miriam Smith Chronicles, about the late Diana, My Paper Chase, Chief Issue Designer Princess of Wales, hosted CNBC’s recounts his adven- Content Officer at Topic A with , and last tures in journalism Bloomberg News You can read this and previous issues of Inside Story at year founded , a topi- and has just been Rossana Rosado Publisher http://journalism.cuny.bepress. of El Diario/La Prensa com/inside_story/.

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2 FALL 2009 INSIDESTORY Dean Stephen B. Shepard, DEAN’S CORNER Prof. Jeff Jarvis, and the 's Charles Firestone in August Reporting On a New Journalistic Ecosystem much they earned. Yes, earned. Many of them were t was Friday, February 20 — one of those nicely profitable while providing valuable news to a bright, cold New York winter mornings. Just community that was actively involved in covering before heading to the subway, I checked my themselves. In short, by collaborating with their com- e-mails on my BlackBerry. The one that munities, they were creating both a journalistic and immediately caught my eye was from business model. AlbertoI Ibargüen, president of the Knight Flash forward to August. There we were in Foundation: Aspen, with 200-page books loaded with spread- “I was talking with Walter Isaacson [President of sheets and business plans. We proposed a new the Aspen Institute] at dinner last night and he journalistic ecosystem that had four main players: suggested that…we should tackle exploration and • A New News Organization staffed by profes- development of biz models [for journalism]… I said sional journalists. I was interested in supporting and suggested we do • A network of local bloggers covering various this w/you and CUNY. Interested?” aspects of a community, from schools and housing Modeling the Future of News Elated, I quickly thumbed back: to health and crime. “Are we interested? Yes. Yes. Yes. It would be a • A service-providing framework that would offer dream come true to work on this with everyone… DELEGATION FROM the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism delivered a sales support and networking opportunities. hopeful message about the future of the news business to the Aspen Institute’s Alberto, thanks for keeping us in mind…” • Non-profit groups in the community, such as a annual Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) in August. Initial We quickly formed a team headed by Jeff Jarvis, A local NPR radio station. research from the J-School’s New Business Models for News Project shows financially director of the interactive program at the CUNY Lo and behold, viable options for gathering and disseminating news that could fill the void in markets Graduate School of Journalism and a leading our models showed where local newspapers fold up shop. thinker about the future of journalism. We asked that bloggers The project, funded by the Knight Foundation, “is exploring what happens to journal- ourselves these questions: What would happen if a ism in a city when a large daily newspaper disappears,” said lead presenter Jeff Jarvis, could support major metropolitan daily was no longer able to per- director of the CUNY J-School’s interactive program. “Will there be a market demand themselves with form the civic functions of a newspaper in a com- for journalism? Can the market meet this demand? And who will pay for the journalism local and networked we need? These are business questions and so we sought business answers in conducting munity? What would replace it? our research.” Dean Stephen B. Shepard and Associate Dean Judith Watson accompanied Actually, we had been thinking for a long time Jarvis to the Aspen conference. (See Dean’s Corner, page 3.) about how to support quality journalism in this Out of the research came the construction of complete business models that CUNY is new digital age. We had run conferences on the sharing with the journalists, communities, entrepreneurs, technologists, and investors. The subject, we had received a $3-million challenge future, Jarvis predicted, will no longer be dominated by a single entity, such as a large grant from the Tow Foundation to set up a Center daily newspaper. Instead a metro market will evolve into an ecosystem made up of many for Journalistic Innovation, and we had been work- players with varying motives, means, and models, work- ing with The New York Times, our next-door ing collaboratively in networks. neighbor, on a hyperlocal news project in the ------The building blocks of that ecosystem are hyperlocal Fort Greene section of , supported in blogs, which now number in the thousands, according to part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Hyperlocal blogs are the hyperlocal network outside.in. “The most startling and hopeful number we found in our survey of local It wasn’t enough, we knew, to provide quality the building blocks for sites,” said Jarvis, “is that some hyperlocal bloggers, serv- journalism. We had to find ways to pay for it in a ing markets of about 50,000 people, are already bringing sustainable way. community coverage. in up to $200,000 a year in advertising. After three years After much discussion back and forth with we project that a blogger could hire editorial staff and Knight (thanks Eric Newton) and the Aspen Institute ------advertising help – citizen salespeople who help support (thanks Charlie Firestone), we agreed to develop , events, and e-commerce. The New News the citizen journalists – and net $148,000 out of $332,000 revenue. That’s a conservative business plans, including detailed spreadsheets Organization (NNO, as we fondly called it) could estimate when you consider that a community weekly paper in such a town probably based on various assumptions, for two broad sce- have double-digit profit margins. grosses between $2 million to $5 million a year.” narios: (1) providing news to a local neighborhood The project also modeled a New News Organization (NNO) – the successor to the Yes, the NNO would be smaller and have lower and (2) for a major metropolitan area. The goal: newspaper newsroom – that covers city-wide stories, provides the best reporting that will revenues than an existing local newspaper, but its present preliminary plans to a select audience of 50 remain the lifeblood of local journalism, and works collaboratively with many in the cost structure would be much leaner, creating nice at the Aspen Institute in August. community. It is the largest member of the ecosystem but, with a staff of 100 instead of margins. By collaborating with local bloggers and Armed with a five-month, $250,000 grant from 1,000, it is much smaller than the old newspaper and has shed costs for printing and dis- sites, the NNO would be deeply rooted in the com- Knight, we hired staff: Peter Hauck, an experienced tribution. “That’s why our model shows that it can be a profitable and sustainable enter- munity, providing a form of hyperlocal content that prise,” Jarvis said. media executive who had worked with Professor traditional newspapers don’t offer. And it would There are more contributors to the metro news ecosystem: technology and sales support Jarvis at the Newhouse chain of newspapers; open up a source of hyperlocal revenue from local organizations that enable these players to operate as part of ad and content networks (the Jennifer McFadden, a spreadsheet-savvy analyst and regional advertisers that could be networked. project also modeled a company that could perform these services); publicly supported who had worked at The New York Times; two of our Over two days, the participants pored over our and not-for-profit entities; transparency of government actions and information (critical to own recent graduates, Matt Sollars and Damian models, offered criticisms, made suggestions. enabling any citizen to become a watchdog); national networks, and the immeasurable but Ghigliotty; and several graduate students from the invaluable force of volunteers who freely contribute to public knowledge. Some disagreed with our conclusions, but pretty Field Center for Entrepreneurship at CUNY’s Baruch Adding this all together, the models project sustainable journalism of scale but also soon nearly everybody was talking about journalis- College. Mignon Media, a well-known consultant, envision great potential for growth, especially if journalists learn to take advantage of the tic ecosystems and New News Organizations. We helped with the spreadsheets. social engagement the Internet enables. “That’s ultimately how new news companies can are now refining our models, working toward a As a first step, we surveyed more than 110 local maximize their value,” Jarvis noted. deadline of January 31 for our final report. All of web sites or blogs that were successfully serving local Next steps for the project include refining the models, researching local advertising fur- our work is available for scrutiny and comment on a ther, exploring the link economy, and hosting a conference on November 11 at the J- communities or cities. Some of them were supported special web site, newsinnovation.com. We’d love to School. “I’m an optimist,” said Jarvis. “Look at all the new opportunities there are to by foundations, like Voice of , MinnPost, and hear from you. gather and share news in new ways, to expand and improve it, to change journalism’s the New Haven Independent. But others were self- relationship with its public and make it collaborative, to find new efficiencies and lower supporting: Baristanet.com in Montclair N.J., West costs and thus to return to profitability and sustainability. It’s an exciting time for journal- SeattleBlog.com, The Arizona Guardian, and Sun ism.” Valley Online. Many of them shared crucial data with Go to newsinnovation.com for the latest on the New Business Models for News Project. us: how big an audience, how much they charged for Download the new business models spreadsheets at newsinnovation.com/models. STEPHEN B. SHEPARD ads, what they paid reporters and sales people, how DEAN, CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

3 City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism Gifts and Pledges, 2006-2009*

$1 Million + e are extremely grateful to many friends for their generous support of the CUNY Graduate School of Peachtree Vascular Specialists, P.C. Bloomberg L.P. David L. Perlman Marian Heiskell Journalism, the only public graduate journalism school in the Northeast. Our first major gift came Mauree J. and Mark W. Perry Ruth Holmberg Wto us before the doors to our new School opened in 2006. It was a $4 million scholarship fund in Plutarch Associates Inc. Judith P. Sulzberger honor of Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times from 1963 to 1992, given by his Bert Pogrebin Ann Pringle-Harris $500,000-$999,999 sisters , Marian Heiskell, and Ruth Holmberg. Since then, the Sulzberger sisters have been joined by many other wonderful and generous donors — Selwyn Raab John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Harriet and Bruce Rabb Foundation individuals, foundations, and corporations — who have stepped forward to support our students with Cecile and Sonny Raichlen $100,000-$499,999 contributions for our unique paid summer internship program and student scholarships. Such donors have Cynthia A. and Frank Raphael Lorraine Barnathan helped make it possible for our diverse student body to receive a world-class graduate journalism education. Kathleen Rebello Himan Brown As we approach our four-year anniversary, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is well on its way to Katherine and Stanley F. Reed III The Carnegie Corporation of New York Susan K. Reed meeting a $3 million challenge grant to fund The Tow Center for Journalistic Innovation. The Center offers Elizabeth and Whitelaw Reid and Povich a fresh perspective and interdisciplinary approach to solving the problems of journalism in America. Lambert Family Foundation Sandra and Robert E. Rice John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Because we are a young school without a strong alumni base, we have established The Future Ann M. and Paul D. Rittenberg Foundation Journalists Program, to encourage career journalists and others to invest in our students — the Robert Spector Trust McCormick Tribune Foundation journalists of tomorrow — by supporting our summer internship program or funding scholarships for Julia G. and Anthony C. Rocco Anne and Harry Rosenfeld McGraw-Hill Companies students in need. For more information on this program, please contact Diana Robertson, director of STEPHEN B. SHEPARD Strawn and Richard J. Rosenthal $50,000-$99,999 development, at 646-758-7814 or send an email to [email protected]. DEAN, CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL Joan Lee and Bernard Roshco Joyce L. Barnathan Thank you to all who have given so generously to ensure the success of our students and our J-School. OF JOURNALISM Seymour Rubenfeld Hearst Corp. Marcia P. and Harold E. 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INSIDESTORY FALL 2009 4 Students Report on their Summer Internships Continued From Page 1 Rima Abdelkader, Al Jazeera English, New York L JAZEERA ENGLISH is the first English-language world news channel Aheadquartered in Qatar. The channel aims to give voice to untold stories, promote , and challenge established percep- tions. It was launched in November 2006 and has broadcast centers in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Washington, DC. This channel is not to be confused with Al Jazeera, the first independent Arabic news channel in the world that was launched 12 years ago. I’ve noticed that explaining this difference has been a challenge for AlJazEng reporters and producers. During the war in , former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld accused the Arabic channel of “vicious, inaccurate, and inexcusable” reports about the war, which has left many in the West with the impression that Al Jazeera English disseminates misinformation and panders to one side. Al Jazeera English in New York works on packages and live feeds from our Reuters office in Times Square to our office at the United Nations. I was tasked with covering business and international news, helping pro- duce packages, manning the Reuters office Rima Abdelkader covered business and international news for “AlJazEng.” or UN office at times, creating a list of sources for our NY correspondent for future stories, as well as going outside with our porate more video and slideshows as a way to talk with small Christian charitable orga- tioned it to Times Local reporter Andy cameraman and interviewing people on a to fill out their site. It has been on that end nizations. “The only reason I talked to you is Newman and he said he had a tip from a range of topics, such as the 50th anniversary that I spent most of my time, be it covering because you are American,” one person told reader that it was done by an artist named of the Apollo moon landing. David Beckham's press conference preced- me. Specter. After some researching online, I Finding sources for broadcast stories took ing his return to Major League Soccer with The Times found Specter’s real name and contact infor- a great deal of patience. Sometimes, I’d only Grant Wahl, SI's prolific soccer writer, or reporters really mation and interviewed him about the art- have a short amount of time to research the capturing some of New York City's best had a lot to offer Mary work, a portrait of a homeless man he’d met topic, find a suitable person, and see if that’d summer basketball at the Dyckman and were Stachyra in Manhattan. This is to me one of the best takes a sight- person would be available to come in that Summer League in northern Manhattan. extremely gener- purposes of a hyperlocal blog: getting to the seeing break day for a couple of minutes. It was definite- ous with their bottom of mysteries that may not be hard time. I followed in Lohgad, news, but that people have been wondering ly a great challenge to see how much I could Mary Stachyra, The Times of India India. reporters along to about. handle. UMBAI is an exhausting city. For press conferences, the first few days, I hated it. The mostly just to see Jenni Avins, Saveur, New York Collin Orcutt, SI.com poverty, pollution, trash, and noise M how they handle were so overwhelming. As an obvious for- KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE that any y internship at Sports Illustrated’s writing stories on eigner, I also received a lot of unwanted hook can help, however tenuous it might web site has been more than I deadline. They attention. But a lot of things got better once be. So, I thought, this is a food magazine Mcould have hoped for. I ate lunch introduced me to I I started my internship. It felt great to get — June is National Dairy Month. I come with Terry McDonell, the magazine’s editor, people and let me back into the routine of writing and report- from a long line of dairy farmers, and my was assigned various video projects, and see the finished ing. My first article was on Rudyard Kipling mom has always collected Elsie the Cow overall was treated like a regular employee product afterward (before it was inevitably and the children’s book market. memorabilia. (Elsie, a daisy-necklaced Jersey rather than an intern. Most of my last edited down). The fun part was, I could fol- I think my major strength as an intern was cow, has been Borden Dairy’s mascot since month was spent in the field, where I was low around reporters from sections I nor- that I was willing to talk with people many the 1930s.) trusted to make my own decisions and use mally wouldn’t have anything to do with. I Times reporters overlooked. Just like in I pitched a nostalgic look at Elsie’s career, my own creative voice. took a day to go to a tennis match with one America, there is a section of society that which Web Editor Katie Cancila loved. I SI.com, I have learned, is re-upping its of the sports reporters. I would never do feels alienated from The Times and other wrote it up for the web, and Katie ended up commitment to multimedia. While the that in the U.S. majority of its current content is text and mainstream publications. So sometimes, I holding it, thinking it might have a place in photo galleries pulled from the archives or had an advantage over others. For example, I Jim Flood, The New York Times the magazine. When I spoke to Dana Getty databases, they are working to incor- was working on a story about Hindu- Bowen, the magazine’s executive editor, Christian relations, and found it very tough Local, New York about the story, I told her how I had written T’S AMAZING WHAT a difference six the piece as a sort of distant, nostalgic, retro- words can make. Being able to say, “I’m spective look at Elsie. from The New York Times” has opened Then, I told her a little bit more about my I mom and my experience reporting the story. up access and opportunities for me that stu- dent journalists often don’t have. It turns out my great grandfather, a Swiss The name recognition was not even the dairy farmer, was exhibiting at the 1939 highlight of my internship, however. The best World's Fair where the original Elsie was "dis- part was the flexibility and creativity that covered." Dana was thrilled with this connec- came with working for a local blog. I was tion and wanted to know more about my able to work out of my own home, report in mother’s Elsie collection and my family’s my own neighborhood, and pitch ideas that I farm. could then decide how best to execute using What's special about Saveur is that a per- my own journalistic judgment. sonal connection to a subject is seen as valu- The first post I wrote during the summer, able, rather than problematic, as often is the published on June 1, came out of my expe- case in journalism. It’s funny because I've riences as a neighborhood resident. At the spent so much energy in school working to top of my block, I noticed that a piece of take myself out of the story, and then Dana street art had materialized on the boarded- advised me to put myself back in. (The Elsie Collin Orcutt shoots for SI.com at the Dyckman basketball court. up front of an abandoned church. I men- piece ran in Saveur ‘s October 2009 issue.) 5 FALL 2009 INSIDESTORY SCHOOL NOTES New Yorker Editor Sees Solid Support ALUMNI NEWS Ana Toro For His Brand of Journalism CLASS OF ’08: Francesca Levy has moved to Forbes magazine to cover real estate after a stint as a reporter AVID REMNICK, editor of The more about , for example, because of at The Deal. Maureen Ker is writing children’s books in New Yorker magazine since 1998, the web. In terms of the skills, the actually Washington D.C. Dexhorted CUNY J-School students doing of the thing and having a fearless to veer away from the famous and instead temperament, that is rare and desperately CLASS OF ’07: Congratulations to Ana Toro and Andrew sharpen their investigative skills because needed.” Greiner for being the first CUNY J-School couple to tie the “that is what the country needs most of all In a departure from many other print knot. After their wedding in July, they moved to from its journalists.” publications, The New Yorker has invested where Andy is deputy managing editor for He made the remarks in a conversation only modest resources into its web site, nbcchicago.com and Ana is starting a freelance career. Sept. 22 with Dean Stephen B. Shepard Remnick noted. “I cannot avert my eyes David Chiu is working part time at Us Weekly as a before a packed house of 150 in the J- from the very core of what The New Yorker researcher. School newsroom. Remnick was the first should be doing. We have to be a great Andrew Greiner guest speaker to appear as part of the magazine,” he said. “Reading 15,000-word 2009-2010 pieces online or OTHER NEWS Brown Bag even printed The National Center for Courts and Media awarded Speaker David out on paper is Anastasia Economides (Class of ’09) a full scholarship to Series, which Remnick just not the attend its Basic Legal Affairs Reporting for Journalists course brings promi- addresses a mode for it — in Reno, NV from July 17 to 28. nent journal- lunchtime yet.” Look for a relaunch this fall of Digital News Journalist, a web site dedicated to ists to the crowd in the Readers so providing students and professionals with tips, tools, and resources for producing School for an J-School far agree with leading-edge multimedia stories. For example, a recent series by interactive informal audi- newsroom. this approach, instructor Jeremy Caplan covers Docs for Journalists. John Smock, who ence with stu- supporting the teaches courses in news photography and interactive journalism, is overseeing the dents, alumni, magazine with redesign of the site, digitalnewsjournalist.com. The project was started by Associate faculty, and a phenomenal Professor Sandeep Junnarkar of the interactive faculty. staff. The 85% subscrip- appearances tion renewal All students now have the option to stretch their studies into a fourth semester. are often rate. What’s They may choose to pursue this option to take additional courses at the J-School or scheduled more, with the other CUNY college, take advantage of an especially good internship offer, spread during number of col- out their workload, or participate in a lunchtime — lege-educated semester abroad. hence, the adults continu- The J-School said a fond farewell name. ing to grow, Former finance & Sept. 3 to its first director of Remnick, Remnick said, administration finance & administration, Geraldo who is writing more people director Gerry Vasquez, at a luncheon in Room a book on “want what it is Vasquez is 308. Vasquez resigned his post to President we do.” pursuing a pursue a PhD in housing finance Barack “I think what PhD in at Milano The New School for Obama, has covered his share of famous will end up happening is they’ll pay more housing Management and Urban Policy. people, from Pope John Paul II to boxer for it on the circulation side to make up for finance. Before joining the CUNY J-School Muhammad Ali. Yet he spoke of how diffi- lost ad revenue. For magazines on the cusp in 2006, he worked as a senior cult it is to write something original or that people don’t want as much, it will be auditor in the New York State deep about someone who is practiced at a hell of a lot harder,” he said. Comptroller’s office. He is a certified keeping reporters at bay. Still, Remnick can see the day when public accountant who earned a B.A. He’d much rather see young journalists more advanced digital technology along and M.S. in accounting from put their efforts into the painstaking process with the economic need to eliminate the CUNY’s College. “that reaps Abu Ghraib and the Pentagon three P’s — printing, paper, and postage — Papers. That kind of reporting is absolutely could make the web the main form of dis- essential to keeping power honest.” tribution for most publications, even his. Asked if he was worried that we can no Referring to the pile of newspapers lying longer afford good investigative journalism, outside his door on Sunday mornings, Remnick replied: “If you told me the Remnick said: “It can be a big hairy mess, Internet was going to be a great and pow- with stuff falling out it. Do I know it’s not erful instrument of investigation of power long for this world? Yes I do.” But “what's — and it’s already happening in some ways in those things, for all their faults,” he — I’d be very pleased. We know a lot added, is enormously important. INSIDESTORY Word Processors of Old

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These relics of early 20th century journalism were recently donated to the CUNY J- School by the New York bureau of The Times. They are part of an antique typewriter collection assembled by Robert E. Dallos, a New York-based LA Times business reporter who died in 1991. The bureau, which displayed the machines for many years in its reception area, was forced to part with them after it moved to smaller quarters. The J- School took 15 typewriters from the 30-piece collection and plans to exhibit them in its newsroom, lobby, and corridors. Others went to the Newseum in Washington D.C.