Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard and Class of 2012 alumni Carla Astudillo, Sarah Kazadi, and Taylor Tepper were honored at the Sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism on May 13. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

Google’s Daniel Sieberg demos a Google Glass headset for Divya Verma in the course, “Mobile and Tablet Journalism: Touching the Future of News.” Each student had a chance to test drive a technology not yet available publicly.

It’s that time of year when seats in the newsroom are hard to find. Here Mikhael Simmonds, ’13, works on an end-of-semester project on a Monday night. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

Jennifer Altman’s photo class practices shooting a “weather feature” in Bryant Park. (Photo by Heather Martino, ’13)

Katie Honan, ’10, poses with her Emmy Award for Breaking News, which she won as part of a team  at WNBC-TV that covered a shooting near the Empire State Building on Aug. 24, 2012.

Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, ’11, interviews a Bosnian grocer about how the export market will change when Croatia joins the EU during her nine-month reporting fellowship at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project ( OCCRP) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.

Students Jacob Hodes and Lindsay Armstrong, together with investigative instructor Tom Robbins, discuss their Riverdale Press series on political patronage appointments in the Bronx courts with NY1 host (and CUNY Journalism professor) Errol Louis.  The 11-member class reported and wrote a four-part series on how, despite reforms, politically-connected attorneys continue to receive lucrative appointments from Bronx judges. (Photo: NY1)

Class of 2012 alum Sean Carlson takes a break from his reporter job at public radio station KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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