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The Jack Newfield class, Urban Investigative Reporting Fall 2013

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

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

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.

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Alyssa Katz announced for Jack Newfield professorship in Spring 2011

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.

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New Jack Newfield Professor for Spring 2010

Daily News columnist Errol Louis will serve as the Jack Newfield Professor
in the spring semester, offering a course in urban investigative journalism to
selected students in Film & Media and Integrated Media Arts.

In the course, titled “Crime, Punishment and the Inner-City: How to Stop
Spinning the Revolving Door Between the Street Corner and the Prison,” students
will examine two neighborhoods–the South Bronx and Central Harlem–and produce
a series of multi-media reports on how the policies of prison officials,
prosecutors and parole and probation departments have created an expensive
revolving door between low-income neighborhoods and New York’s jails and
prisons.

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Tom Robbins Hunter College Urban Investigative Reporting Class Project Inspired by Jack Newfield

Published By: The Village Voice
Link: Village Voice Article Source Link
Photo By: Fillip Kwiatkowsi
Written By: Tom Robbins and Students in the Hunter College Urban Investigative Reporting Class

The Second Battle of Bushwick
Thirty years after the blackout riots, it’s getting hot all over again
Tom Robbins
Tuesday, June 19th 2007

From the top of the spanking new steel-and-glass 14-story condo tower now open for inspection on Grove Street just off of Myrtle Avenue, you can see most of Bushwick—the landmarks of the neighborhood that was, and the one that’s fast being remade, the sites of the bad old memories, even of some of the good.

This is the Brooklyn neighborhood’s first major luxury residential construction project, but the marketers of the 59 condominium units for sale here steer clear of the name Bushwick as much as possible. Promotional materials aimed at luring hipsters with the means to buy a one-bedroom for $270,000, or a three-bedroom penthouse for $682,000 refer to “ever-expanding Williamsburg” or “East Williamsburg” as the building’s locale. This despite the fact that the tower at 358 Grove Street is in deepest Bushwick; look it up on any map.

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Barrett’s journalism class follows a Newfield tradition.

Published By: The Village Voice
Link: Village Voice Article Source Link
Photo By: Giulietta Verdon-Roe
Written By: Wayne Barrett and the Hunter College Journlism Class

The 10 Worst Landlords
craped from the bottom of the barrel, tales of living hell
Tuesday, June 27th 2006

The 10 Worst Landlords is a Voice institution. Started by longtime senior editor Jack Newfield in the ’60s, it became a regular feature gracing our pages through the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. This edition is dedicated to Newfield, who died in 2004. It was written by students from his alma mater, Hunter College. Senior editor Wayne Barrett, who this winter was the first Jack Newfield Visiting Professor of Journalism at Hunter, supervised the project.

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Carrying on Jack’s Tradition

Carrying On The Tradition of a Passionate Journalist  

The Jack Newfield Visiting Professorship of Journalism at Hunter College has been created to honor the memory of one of America’s greatest reporter – writers, the late Jack Newfield.

The program is designed to bring a distinguished journalist to Hunter College for one semester each year to teach, to lecture, to mentor students and to produce important public programs in Jack’s honor.

To make a gift or for further information, please contact:

Hunter College Foundation
Attn: Diana Robertson
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
Phone: 212-772-4085
Email: diana.robertson@hunter.cuny.edu

or visit the CUNY Hunter Newfield Fund page here.

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Jack’s Work

As a journalist Jack worked for many New York publication companies. Successful companies that included the Village Voice, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Daily News and The Nation Magazine.