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Press Releases

When winners are selected for our various prizes or when other special events or gifts occur, the Journalism School wants the world to know. Here's a collection of recent press releases which reflect what's going on here.


Columbia Journalism School Establishes Dual-Degree Program With South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand

Feb. 9, 2010


USA Today Wins the 2009 Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting

Feb. 4, 2010


2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners Announced; Six Local Stations Honored, CBS News Wins Two Awards

Jan. 14, 2010

Columbia Journalism School Raises $15 Million to Help Establish New Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Jan. 11, 2010

Columbia Journalism School Report Proposes New Steps to Support Quality Public Affairs Reporting

October 20, 2009

Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever 'Encore' Fellowship for Journalists

October 15, 2009

Graduate School of Journalism Announces Exchange Program with Axel Springer Akademie in Germany

September 24, 2009

Graduate School of Journalism Announces Fellows for the Sixth NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera

September 24, 2009

Graduate School of Journalism Announces 2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellows

August 25, 2009

Graduate School of Journalism Announces Winners of 2009 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean

July 27, 2009

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Graduate School of Journalism Announces 2009 Berger Award Winner for Best Human-Interest Reporting

May 6, 2009

National Endowment for the Arts Launches Sixth Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera at the Graduate School of Journalism

May 5, 2009

Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism School Announces 2009-2010 Knight-Bagehot Fellows

May 4, 2009

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Announces 2009 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award Winner for Best Reporting of Racial Bias and Intolerance

April 28, 2009

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism Announces Winners of 2009 Dart Awards

April 16, 2009

Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism Becomes New Home for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

April 14, 2009

Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard Announce Winners of the 2009 Lukas Prize Project Awards for Exceptional Works of Nonfiction

March 30, 2009

Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism to Host Watchdog Journalism Conference

March 5, 2009

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners Announced; WFAA Wins Highest Honor – First Local Station to Win

January 12, 2009

Graduate School of Journalism Names The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Winner of the John B. Oakes Environmental Journalism Prize

December 18, 2008

Twenty-three Fellows Chosen for the Fifth NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera

October 28, 2008

Graduate School of Journalism Reaches $100 Million Milestone in Second Century Campaign

October 22, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces a $4.46 Million Grant to Bolster the Study of Health and Science Journalism

October 20, 2008

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and The New York Times’ Andrew C. Revkin Receive the 2008 Chancellor Awards

September 17, 2008

Morton Mintz gift establishes fund for comparative journalism

August 4, 2008

Arts Journalism Institute Returns for Fifth Year

July 15, 2008

Abi E. Wright Named duPont Director

June 22, 2008

The Tow Foundation Gives $5 Million to Establish New Media Center

June 22, 2008

Bill Grueskin of The Wall Street Journal is New Academic Dean

June 4, 2008

2008-2009 Knight-Bagehot Fellows Announced

May 5, 2008

2008 Berger Award Winner Announced

April 29, 2008

2008 Spencer Education Fellows Named

April 9, 2008

New Dual Degree Program with France's Sciences Po

April 9, 2008

2008 Lukas Prize Winners

April 1, 2008

Let's Do It Better Award Winners 2008

March 26, 2008

2008 Alumni Award Winners

January 3, 2008

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University 2008 Broadcast News Awards

December 17, 2007

2007 Oakes Award Winner

December 14, 2007

2007 John Chancellor Award Winner

November 13, 2007

Spencer Fellowship Established for Education Reporting

September 12, 2007
Ph.D. Brochure

2007 Maria Moors Cabot Prize Winners

July 10, 2007

Fourth Arts Journalism Institute on Classical Music and Opera

June 6, 2007

2007 Berger Award Winner for Best Human-Interest Reporting

May 1, 2007

Winners of 2007 Annual Alumni Award

April 20, 2007

New Construction Plan Announced, Toni Stabile’s Gift Provides New Student Center

March 19, 2007

Major Gift from Daniel J. Edelman, J’41 for New Student Center

March 26, 2007

2007 Lukas Prize Project Awards for Exceptional Works of Nonfiction

March 28, 2007

The Best in 2007 Race Reporting and Leadership

March 7, 2007

The Hearst Fellowship in Business Journalism Program

Jan. 22, 2007

Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Opens New Center for Investigative Journalism

Sept. 20, 2006