May 16, 2012
Columbia Journalism School students publish often and widely. Here is a collection of their work from the final weeks of the semester.
Apr. 11: Maya Schwayder ’12 asked “When Will Bridal Magazines Invite Same-Sex Couples to the Party?” for Gawker.Apr. 16: Dalal Mawad’s ’12 master’s thesis, “Lebanese Jews in New York: Longing for Home,” was published by the English version of Al Akhbar, one of Lebanon’s most prominent news sources.
Apr. 16: Your Middle East, a Sweden-based, independent news site, led its website with Michael Wilner’s ’12 story on Israel’s “existential crisis.” Wilner published another piece, about Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, with the news site on May 8.
Apr. 16: Olivia Waxman ’12 explored haute sauces and spreads in “Will Artisinal Condiments Become Widespread?” for the Daily Meal.
Apr. 16: Also for the Daily Meal, Alexa van Sickle ’12 looked into the industry of eco-friendly “green wines.”
Apr. 16: Theodoric Meyer ’12 broke the story of Brooklyn’s I.S. 318’s win at the National High School Chess Championships for the New York Times SchoolBook. The story was published on the Times’ A1 the following day, where Meyer got additional reporting credit.
Apr. 17: Brian Browdie ’13 reported for Next American City on the battle over bike lanes in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Apr. 19: Frederick Bernas ’12 aired a story about a bronze statue of Lenin that appeared suddenly on the Lower East Side for Monocle 24 Radio. He also attended and reported on a training session for Occupy activists (Apr. 23), and on Occupy protesters at Frieze art fair (May 7), for the station.
Apr. 20: International Newsroom students reported on how Kony 2012 failed to convert their Internet activism into street action.
Apr. 21: Salim Essaid ’12 published “Hamas-Fatah divide is affecting local journalism” with Your Middle East.
Apr. 26: Lucy Pawle ’12 published “Oil disputes highlight growing divisions in Iraq,” also with Your Middle East.
Apr. 27: Lucas O’Neill ’12 profiled and produced a video about an autistic junior basketball player who had a crowning moment in this year’s New York state playoffs, for ESPN.
May 2: Olivia Waxman ’12 wrote about schools using cell phones and text-messaging for education purposes for TIME’s Techland.
May 4: Asia Society published “Dueling Narratives: The Death of Osama Bin Laden in U.S. and Pakistani Media,” a video produced by Sarah Alvi ’12 and Celeste Owen-Jones ’12. Students in the Covering Education seminar spent the spring semester reporting inside New York City’s public schools, in suspension centers, and in children’s homes,telling the education story through a variety of lenses; their work is collected at school-stories.org. The class also teamed up with the New York Times SchoolBook, where several of the students’ stories were published, including by Jackie Mader ’12, Rebecca Moss ’12, Hiten Samtani ’12, and Aidan Gardiner ’12, among others.
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Students: If you’ve published work, please send your clips to Miriam Beyer, Web Editor (mb2428@columbia.edu), for inclusion in this digest and communication on the Journalism School's social media sites.
