SPJ CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Our chapter answered a challenge from Columbia students to compete in a Guitar Hero contest. Of the five prizes for top scores, CUNY took three and kept our rocker rep in tact! Our awesome tech team not only hooked up the projection, but provided the equipment! It was a great way to kick-start the new semester and was capped by all of us watching Obama’s nomination acceptance speech. (Photos by Kathryn Lurie)

Josh and Megan in a rock duel to the death.

Couldn't have done it without Chad-he provides style and the X-box.

Dan and Fritzie rock out. She's just getting started.

Obama watch begins

We finally found a use for those seats!

Each of us thinking of how we'll report on politics until November....

Carl, chill as always.

CUNY J-School’s news wire, the NYC News Service, won first place in the SPJ Eastern competition for Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication. Region 1 held its Mark of Excellence awards during the Spring Conference in Maine in April.

Most SPJ Chapter members have contributed stories to the news service from their assigned New York City neighborhood beats.  Students apply their media track and special studies in Urban Politics, Health, Arts & Culture, International or Business to reporting on local stories and sometimes work together on larger pieces. As a final project for the spring, all students will contribute stories on immigration in Queens. Look for many of those to appear soon.