0 Columbia News features The New York World

     

February 6, 2012

"Pulitzer’s New York World Reborn as Online News Site"
By Meghan Berry '09

Last fall, a private bus company operating under a city contract permitted its passengers, primarily Orthodox Jews, to enforce a religious tradition—in order to prevent physical contact between the sexes, women were required to sit in the back of the bus. The New York Times, New York Post and CBS 2 ran the story, which was later picked up by the BBC and Belgian and Israeli news outlets. But it was an enterprising reporter from The New York World—a new Graduate School of Journalism endeavor—who first broke this story of segregation.

Sasha Chavkin ’10, one of six reporters who contribute to the news site covering city and state government, posted the story the day the World’s website launched in October. One week later, the bus company agreed to stop the practice, which violates city anti-discrimination policies, and Chavkin wrote a follow-up story for The Jewish Daily Forward.

“This story is a really great example of something unique The New York World does,” said its editor, Alyssa Katz, a veteran journalist who has covered urban policy, politics and housing in New York. “We’ll take seemingly mundane things about how life works in New York City and say, ‘Well actually, this is what’s really going on.’”

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New York World staff talk about using digital media to pursue long-term investigative projects.

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0 Cyndi Stivers named editor-in-chief of Columbia Journalism Review

     

November 1, 2011

 

Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that Cyndi Stivers has been appointed the editor-in-chief of the publication. Stivers, an adjunct professor at the Journalism School, teaches a digital magazine workshop. She chairs the Editorial Council of the American Society of Magazine Editors, of which she is a past president. She is the former managing editor of EW.com, and the founding editor-in-chief of Time Out New York.

Stivers has served as an adviser to Consumer Reports WebWatch and has worked with Time Inc., National Geographic, Etsy and the global newsstand Magzter.

Founded in 1961, CJR is the leading media monitor in the nation, publishing a bimonthly magazine and a daily website of press criticism.

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0 J-School grad Travis Irvine profiled by Columbia News

     

May 14, 2012

In Travis Irvine’s application to Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, he wrote that he wanted his career to include travel, filmmaking, comedy, politics and, oh yes, journalism.

An eclectic list to be sure, but the 28-year-old polymath has managed to do all of the above. In 2007, he ran for mayor of his hometown of Bexley, Ohio, and three years later ran for Congress in Ohio’s 12th District. He’s produced movies, campaign commercials and Internet videos, and has performed stand-up comedy around the country. As he picks up his M.S. degree in journalism on May 16 and ticks off the last item on his list, Irvine says, “I’ve learned that I can find a way to do something that combines all five.”

Irvine, who is already at work on a book, takes a broad view of journalism. Growing up, he practiced impressions and wrote humor pieces. He wasn’t merely the class clown, graduating from high school in 2002 with a 4.0 average. He enrolled in Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication, hoping to become a weatherman. “Instead, I kept falling asleep in meteorology class,” he says.

During college he landed internships at NBC’s London bureau and The Today Show, and then joined a comedy troupe. While the group was on a surfing trip, raccoons attacked their camp, eating all the food. That incident inspired Irvine’s first film, “Coons! Night of the Bandits of the Night” with the tagline, “They come for your food ... they stay for your FLESH!” It was acquired by Troma Entertainment in 2006, the same year he graduated with a degree in communications.

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Travis Irvine ’12

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0 Alexis Gelber '80 awarded Columbia Alumni Medal

     

May 25, 2012

Alexis Gelber ’80, former chair of the Alumni Board at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, received an Alumni Medal at the Columbia University Commencement on May 16. 

The Alumni Medal, first awarded in 1933, recognizes alumni for distinguished service of 10 years or more to the University—including its schools, alumni associations, regional Columbia Clubs, and University-wide initiatives.

Gelber is an editorial consultant and adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has served as The Daily Beast’s founding book editor, Newsweek’s national affairs editor and Newsweek International’s managing editor, and she edited special Newsweek coverage of the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections that won a National Magazine Award. In 2011, as a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Gelber published “Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network.” She is a former president of the Overseas Press Club of America.

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