Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

An inside look at our summer course, Journalism Goes to the Movies. Every week, the class meets with a special guest that leads a discussion on key themes in journalism movies and their role in holding power accountable.

This past week they sat down with Bruce Goldstein, the master programmer at Film Forum, to talk journalism, movies, Italian theatres and vintage film posters.

Non-journalism grad students! Do you want to sharpen your writing skills and learn how to convey your expertise to a general audience? Consider taking Writing for a Wide Audience, a 4-credit elective at NYU Journalism designed for non-journalists.

The purpose of the course is to help you, the budding expert/specialist, learn how to write for the public — people outside your academic discipline. You will work on writing that is rigorous, but never jargon-riddled or obscure; accessible to readers who don’t share your water-cooler; and compelling to people with little previous knowledge of its subject.

WHEN: Fall 2025, Mondays 1:30-5pm
WHERE: 20 Cooper Square, Room 700

Visit the link in our bio to learn more and register.

For LitRep alum Tracy Jawad wrote about her experience turning to shoplifting after the death of her father. Read her compelling essay through the link in our bio.

Congratulations to NewsDoc alumni Mona El-Naggar, who won the Outstanding Hard News Feature– Short Form, at the 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

Mona won for her reporting on the piece “She Survived an Airstrike that Killed Her Entire Family in Gaza,” for , a story about 11-year-old Dareen al-Bayaa, who lost her parents in an Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of her family members.

Photo by Annette Hornischer

For Professor Rachel Swarns wrote about Debra Bruno, a writer who confronted a history of enslavers in her family in upstate New York.

“Her story illuminates the often overlooked history of slavery in the North, which has drawn growing attention from scholars and state and local officials in recent years,” Professor Swarns writes.

Check out the full piece through the link in our bio.

For Inge Oosterhoff (LitRep ‘21) reported on the Christian right’s resistance to IVF, and how the group is casting excess embryos as “little frozen orphans” that need to be saved through embryo adoption programs.

Check out her impactful and in-depth piece through the link in our bio.

For , reported on how Nigerian immigrants are connecting with home through a New York-based Catholic Church.

Read the full story through the link in our bio!

Last week, “Addicted,” a three-part docuseries by NYU Journalism alum and Fulbright scholar, Shehzad Hameed Ahmad, premiered globally on CNA.

The eye-opening series filmed across 12 countries dives into the shocking figures released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which showed that a staggering 296 million people were estimated to have used illegal drugs in 2021 —an incredible 23% rise over the past decade. This increasing trend not only highlights a growing global health crisis but also stresses the urgent need for thorough strategies to tackle the root causes of addiction. Shehzad and his team traversed bustling cities to secluded villages, capturing the harsh realities faced by those involved in the production, trafficking, and use of these dangerous substances.

Check out the series’ trailer through the link in our bio.

For recent grad .alikhan (Glojo ‘25), explored a bold idea quietly proposed by Tehran: the United States investing in and building Iran’s nuclear program.

Read the full piece through the link in our bio.

Congratulations to Chi Tian (Class of 2025) and Angela Elle L. Liu (Class of 2024), who were awarded the 2025 Student Excellence in Video Storytelling Award by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Their video story “Saving Chinatown’s roots: How three residents are preserving the neighborhood” was produced in Professor Jason Samuels’s Advanced Multimedia class and was published by amNewYork.

Watch their award-winning video through the link in our bio!

For Vivienne Germain (CRC ‘25) wrote about A Drinking Game NYC, a comedy troupe that reenacts cult-classic films as live theatrical productions.

“For their reenactment of “Jurassic Park,” cast members held two fans behind a person with a water bottle to portray an acid-spitting dinosaur. During a n**e scene in “Titanic,” an actor wore a T-shirt with a funny sketch of a naked body,” Germain writes. “They use a bubble gun for snow, and a floor scooter — the kind from elementary school gym class — represents any sort of unusual transportation, from futuristic hoverboards to superhuman flight.”

Be sure to check out the full piece through the link in our bio!

Some more exciting scenes from this past week. We’re so proud of NYU Journalism’s class of 2025!



Photos courtesy of Antonio Urrutia, Jannelle Andes, and Clare Francis.