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…

Social Journalism Class of 2015

Our inaugural class has chosen communities they will serve and are developing new strategies to engage them

Hear us roar!

One student reflects on the inaugural semester of our social journalism MA

This piece was originally written as a final reflection paper for the Community Engagement course at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, taught in…

“Social” Can Still Mean Face-to-Face

CUNY Social Journalism students explore the many Meetups of NYC

In April, students in my community engagement course at CUNY were treated to an insightful talk by Scott Heiferman, the CEO and…

Solving the Ghost Boat mystery

CUNY and Columbia journalism students learn verification and investigative techniques in search for 243 missing people

The Blizzard That Wasn’t: #CUNYJSNOW15 Collaborative Reporting Project

Social and entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism experiment with new digital tools to report on…