Engagement Journalism

A pathbreaking program’s new name underscores how its novel approaches can be game changing — for both audiences and journalists

Journalism must impact communities

Communities are everywhere.

Meet the CUNY Social Journalism Class of 2017!

Lessons and hopes six years post-launch of the first MA in engagement journalism

The pace of change in…

Listening Starter Pack for New Social Journalists

Some community exercises for journalism students

Many journalism professors increasingly realize that they need to teach more than just traditional reporting skills. Yes, it’s important…

What “Journalism as a Service” Means to Social Journalists

It’s not just more of “what we’ve always…

CUNY-J Social Journalism FAQs

Not clear on what this program is all about? Read on

What IS “social journalism,” anyway? I still don’t get it.

Social journalists put the public at the center of everything they do. We view…

Teaching community engagement

A few things we learned this spring

This spring I co-taught my first course at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, along with Jeff Jarvis: Community Engagement.

Partnering with Storyful to train social journalists

Verification is everything

If there is one thing I hope my students take away from our new social journalism MA program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, it is the ability and the…