News and Documentary Alumni Wins Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award
We are thrilled to announce that Yuanchen Liu, a 2010 graduate of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, News and Documentary, won the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award for his graduate thesis documentary, “To the Light.” Yuanchen’s experience covering
Alum France Costrel wins “Emerging Filmmaker Award”
Alum France Costrel was sponsored to attend the 2011 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, OH. Costrel’s film, “Finding Fathers,” was featured in the First Film category and won the “EMERGING FILMMAKER” Award.
NewsDoc Student Haya Fatima Iqbal’s video featured in Houston, TX
On October 22, 2011, NewsDoc student Haya Fatima Iqbal’s video was featured in “Third World: Third Wards/Karachi,” organized by Voices Breaking Boundaries, a non-profit based in Houston, TX. The event was a “living room art production,” featuring multimedia installations inside
New York City’s Unemployment Hits Minorities Hardest
New York City’s slowly declining unemployment rate has stalled at 8.7 percent since March, leaving more than 340,000 New Yorkers currently searching for work. According to the New York State Department of Labor, more than half of the unemployed New
Occupy Wall Street Meets Tahrir Square
October 25, 2011 Two Egyptian activists led hundreds of American protesters on a march out of Zuccotti Park on Monday, walking past the police barricades on Wall Street for the first time since protests began about six weeks ago. It
Women in the Military: November 3
Queens: Illegal Conversions on the Rise
Sitting in her new airy room in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Jill, 26, recalls the days when she lived in an illegal basement in Ridgewood, Queens. Cell phone signals did not exist, bath towel always had a rotten smell, and everyday was
Chinese Homebuyers Entering the U.S. Market
Lu Hong, a 25-year-old nursing student at SUNY Stony Brook, migrated to the U.S. in 2004 from the eastern Zhejiang Province, China. Hong’s father, a Chinese businessman with a U.S. green card, spends two months a year in America and
