Jack Newfield

During a decades-long career, investigative reporter Jack Newfield exposed corrupt politicians, dangerous nursing homes, dirty boxing promoters and other scourges upon the city. Now, in a course offered in Newfield’s honor, students can learn step-by-step how investigative reporting is done: how stories are found, documents uncovered, sources developed, and more–all as they work as a team toward producing bylined work for publication in the professional press. Led by award-winning investigative reporter and editor Jarrett Murphy, the course will produce multi-media work and is open to both undergraduates and graduate students.

For more information, contact Jarrett Murphy at jarrettmurphy@gmail.com. For approval to register, contact Professor Bernard L. Stein bstein@hunter.cuny.edu

Introduction Spring 2012 Course
Investigative Video Reporting: The Children’s Story

MEDP 399.58 / IMA 780.58 / URBG 787.16
Mondays, 5:30-8:30, Room 436HN

This course will meld investigative and video reporting techniques to explore child welfare issues in New York City. The course, taught by this year’s Jack Newfield Visiting Professor, Barbara Nevins Taylor, honors the memory of late award winning, muckraking journalist Jack Newfield. In the Newfield tradition the class will investigate issues that affect the poorest children in the city. Our focus includes hunger, foster care, the juvenile justice system, homelessness and HIV/AIDS. The class will produce video reports to air on a professional platform.

Author and journalist Alyssa Katz will serve as the Jack Newfield Professor
in the spring semester, offering a course in urban investigative journalism to
selected students in Film & Media, Integrated Media Arts and Urban Affairs.