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Through the Lens, started by Wui Liang Lim ’10, wins gold at Asian Digital Media Awards

Through the Lens, a visual journalism website of Singapore’s The Straits Times founded and managed by Wui Liang Lim ’10, won Gold for “Best in Online Media: Newspaper Website” at the WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2011 in Hong Kong … more

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Sasha Chavkin ’10 investigates kidney disease epidemic

It remains a mystery: thousands of workers in sugarcane plantations in Nicaragua are dying from kidney disease and no one knows why. In the fall of 2009, while enrolled in the Columbia Journalism School Stabile program, Sasha Chavkin ’10 began … more

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Abigail Hauslohner, M.A. ’09, talks about war reporting: J-10 Connect Profile

J-10 Connect is an opportunity for recent Columbia Journalism School alumni to connect with one another and with current students. One alumnus from the last ten graduating class years will be featured each month. This alumnus will be open to … more

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Several alumni featured on New York Times’ list of ‘Notable Books’

The work of several J-School alumni made the New York Times’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2011. ————————- View source post

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Cécile Dehesdin ’10 wins prize from Google, Sciences Po

Cécile Dehesdin ’10 is one of two journalists to be awarded a new prize given by Google and the School of Journalism at Sciences Po in Paris, for innovation in digital journalism. ————————- View source post

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Student Ben Teitelbaum appears on ‘Wheel of Fortune’

Journalism School student Ben Teitelbaum was a contestant on the game show “Wheel of Fortune” on Tuesday, Nov. 29, solving the first three puzzles of the show and ultimately taking home more than $8,000. ————————- View source post

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Dean Nicholas Lemann talks with Journalist’s Resource

Journalist’s Resource, a project of Carnegie-Knight Initiative and Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, recently sat down with Columbia University Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann to discuss knowledge-based journalism, politics and campaign coverage, and the future of the profession, among many … more

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Social Media workshop reaches more than 450,000 on Twitter

The buzz on Twitter (#cjsm) started days before the Social Media One-Night Stand, hosted by the Continuing Education Department of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Prof. Sree Sreenavisan, actually began. And it continued throughout the Dec. 1 event … more

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J-School Student Clip Report: November

Columbia Journalism School students are turning their classwork into clips and even doing additional freelance work on the side. Here is a collection of their published work from late October and November. ————————- View source post

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Professor David Hajdu’s work anthologized among best music writing of the year

Columbia Journalism School Professor David Hajdu’s profile of jazz composer Fred Hersch was selected for “Best Music Writing 2011,” a collection edited by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross and published this week by Da Capo Press. ————————- View source … more

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