This is the online student publication of the school. The stories are told via a range of media including print, radio and TV broadcast. Students create stories based on their interviews and research in the field, but they know that only the best of these make it into this publication. The goal is to have their work published on this Web site for all the world -- the subjects of the stories, potential employers, proud parents -- to see.

NYC24 (pronounced "N-Y-C-two-four") brings you eight feature stories about NYC, centered around the theme of GRIT. The site is entirely conceptualized, reported, shot, produced and edited by the students. NYC24 is the project of the digital media workshop, which combines traditional reporting and writing skills with the best of online journalism.

NYCinteractive.org

NYCInteractive.org is the an online news magazine of the Digital Media Workshop. Six teams of multimedia journalists fanned out across the city to report stories using digital media - including written text, photography, audio and video.

Columbia News Tonight

Each Thursday morning, 25 intrepid young reporters and producers get together to ask a simple question: What are New Yorkers talking about this week? Over the next 36 hours, a 30-minute newscast is researched, reported, edited and, produced, before it is broadcast Friday evening. The result is Columbia News Tonight.

DownsizeNYC explores not only the statistics but also the sensibilities of the economic crisis. Stories consider how this recession is impacting average New Yorkers - from taxi drivers and hedge fund managers to unemployed volunteers and single parents. Work produced for "Video Storytelling" has also appeared on FRONTLINE's Digital Nation and NPR's Planet Money: Trouble Even Working For Free and Rich Enough To Live On Rice.

The Bronx Beat is a student-written, student-run weekly newspaper covering the people, issues and happenings of the city’s northernmost borough. Assisted by a team of adjunct professors who work at the city's dailies, the Bronx Beat staff publishes during the spring semester, covering topics from schools to sports to samba. In addition to a circulation in the Bronx of 6,000, the Bronx Beat is also widely circulated to the editors of the city’s weeklies and dailies.

The Brooklyn Ink

The Brooklyn Ink is a news site covering life, business and politics in New York City's most populous borough. With up to date accounts of current events in Brooklyn, the aim is to make the news interesting again by presenting real stories rather than the dry, boiled-down articles of yesteryear.

Students learn to write about the fascinating, complex education beat with clarity and depth. The course combines history with current issues and reporting strategies. Students spend one day a week inside a New York City public school, gaining first hand knowledge of how a school works from the boiler room to the classroom. In-depth projects, features, profiles and blog posts are published on the class Web site, “School Stories.”

"Covering Religion" prepares journalists to write about religion for a secular audience. The course looks at major religions today through case studies of how religion is evolving in different parts of the world. Each student is required to become the class expert on a specific faith or denomination. During the spring break, the class takes a 12-day study tour of the country and culture being studied.

This course combines the best of traditional reporting and editing with the latest digital media storytelling techniques. Using a combination of original reporting as well as building on stories already done for RW1, students build three editions of a website, with each four-week project covering one specific issue affecting New Yorkers. Students work with several digital media tools, including web page production; photography and image editing; audio and video editing; blogging, etc.

The publication titled 801 is the final product of a spring semester workshop in magazine production. Students write, edit, and fact-check their work and perform all the editorial functions of a magazine staff. They work individually and in teams, devising departments, assigning stories, gathering art, etc.The publication has an online counterpart as well.

The Columbia News Service operates as a feature syndicate. The stories are conceived, reported and written by students under the guidance of faculty members. The best ones are displayed on the ColumbiaJournalist.org Web site. These stories are also distributed by The New York Times News Service for publication in some 400 daily newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

The International Newsroom is an elective course taught by Ann Cooper, an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. The class brings together 20 M.S. students from around the globe. With them, they bring unique perspectives and backgrounds that make for interesting discussions on two central questions: What is news? And how is it reported?.

Students learn formats heard on the best commercial and public network broadcasts, in particular on National Public Radio news programs such as Morning Edition. Advanced courses stress on-air production and hosting skills. Broadcast programs include live coverage of national and local elections each November, a weekly news magazine January through May, occasional broadcasts of the Radio Documentary class and "Masters Project" long-form documentaries.

For the summer of 2009, News21 fellows across the country will produce, “The American Tapestry: Exploring the Demographics of a Changing Nation.” Each of the eight incubator schools will cover a piece of the pie — Columbia fellows are reporting on education, specifically “The Charter Explosion.”

The New York Review of Magazines (NYRM) is the culminating publication of a spring semester workshop in which students analyze the world of magazine journalism. They participate in all aspects of creating the publication, including photography, copy-editing, production, working on a business plan, etc. They produce a companion online version as well.

Decision NYC

Digital media, broadcast and print journalism students produced this collaborative report on the 2008 elections. This is the first package of multimedia coverage of a presidential election in the history of the Journalism School. Features include streaming audio and video reports from locations throughout New York City and several key states, interactive maps and audio slide shows.

The Borough Beat

The Borough Beat is a project of the RW1 class of Prof. John Dinges and adjunct professors Dody Tsiantar and Arik Hesseldahl. The reporters are Masters of Science candidates focusing on magazine, newspaper and digital media journalism. Areas of coverage include education, Election 2008, immigration, and social issues.

eighteen:twentynine

“eighteen:twentynine” refers to the demographic covered—ages 18 to 29—by students in Prof. Ruth Padawer’s RW1 course during the 2008 election. The blog incorporates reporting, writing and multimedia to give the world an idea of how American youth viewed this landmark presidential election.

Gotham Express

Established in 2008, Gotham Express serves over 40 neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. The Express offers audio, video and interactive tools, such as Google Maps. The Gotham Express staff includes 15 reporters, covering politics, education and immigration. This RW1 class is taught by Rhoda Lipton and Joe Cutbirth.

The Gotham Guardian

An RW1 course led by Addie Rimmer, The Gotham Guardian covers breaking news from 15 neighborhoods spread across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Most recently, the team of students reported on how the two presidential candidates addressed various health care issues.

The New York Torch

The New York Torch is written and produced by the students in Prof. Ari Goldman’s RW1 class. Each of the 16 reporters covers an ethnic community in New York City, from Albanians and Brazilians, to West Africans and Vietnamese.

RED INK

Dispatched in the neighborhoods of New York City, the reporters at RED INK work to capture stories of action, indifference, passion, outrage, humor, suffering, joy and sadness as change spreads through the city and the nation. RW1 professors Dale Maharidge and Jessica Bruder demand a “street-dogging” style of reporting.