About the Program

Our Urban Journalism Program

It is hard to imagine any subject more central to the mission of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism than the coverage of New York City. The University has an unparalleled network of professors whose research focuses on every conceivable public policy issue, neighborhood, and ethnic group. The J-School is fortunate to benefit from these connections; they inform our curriculum, provide guest speaking and adjunct opportunities, and generate eye-opening field trips.

Students who choose the urban reporting concentration are especially well positioned to take advantage of the School’s NYCity News Service, which promotes student work in print, multimedia, and broadcast formats about New York City.

Who Leads our Program

Sarah Bartlett, formerly of Fortune, BusinessWeek and The New York Times, heads up our urban program. She draws on an array of terrific adjuncts and working journalists with experience in print, multimedia, and broadcast to round out the roster of instructors.

Our Program

Students who choose to specialize in urban reporting take four courses. The first, Covering City Government and Politics, is taken in their second semester. The second is a required summer internship that follows the second semester. Among the media outlets where the School’s urban concentration students have spent their summers are:  NY Daily News, Newsday, Newark Star-Ledger, The New York Times, City Limits, Crain’s New York Business, and WNYC. In the third semester, students take Covering New York City’s Economy and Business and another course chosen from three urban electives. While the focus of all the courses is New York City, the reporting and analytical skills students develop are of universal relevance and can be applied to other urban areas as well.

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