• Johnny Temple, publisher of Brooklyn-based Akashic Books, speaks at the CUNY Publishing Institute on June 4 as CPI director John Oakes looks on. (Photo by Abby Kraftowitz)

    Tow-Knight Fellow Lori Robinson pitches her startup, VidaAfro, a site focused on illuminating the experience of black Latin Americans, at the Spring 2013 Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism pitch day.

    Joe Richman (left), executive producer and founder of “Radio Diaries,” discussed his new work, “Teenage Diaries Revisited,” with radio professor Alex Goldmark on May 17. Richman brought a copy of one of the original  “Teenage Diaries” features, which he produced in 1996 on reel-to-reel tape. (Photo by Rachel Bryson Brockmann, ’13)

    Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard and Class of 2012 alumni Carla Astudillo, Sarah Kazadi, and Taylor Tepper were honored at the Sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism on May 13. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

    It’s that time of year when seats in the newsroom are hard to find. Here Mikhael Simmonds, ’13, works on an end-of-semester project on a Monday night. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

    Jennifer Altman’s photo class practices shooting a “weather feature” in Bryant Park. (Photo by Heather Martino, ’13)

    Katie Honan, ’10, poses with her Emmy Award for Breaking News, which she won as part of a team  at WNBC-TV that covered a shooting near the Empire State Building on Aug. 24, 2012.

    Students Jacob Hodes and Lindsay Armstrong, together with investigative instructor Tom Robbins, discuss their Riverdale Press series on political patronage appointments in the Bronx courts with NY1 host (and CUNY Journalism professor) Errol Louis.  The 11-member class reported and wrote a four-part series on how, despite reforms, politically-connected attorneys continue to receive lucrative appointments from Bronx judges. (Photo: NY1)

    Class of 2012 alum Sean Carlson takes a break from his reporter job at public radio station KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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    Online From Iraq: Dentist Turned Blogger Comes to Learn the Journalistic Tools


    Can a dentist turned blogger help change the lives of Iraqis? Zeyad A. is willing to try by taking the skills he’ll learn at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism back to his country. Currently, he writes a blog called “Healing Iraq” and is a regular contributor to Internet sites of major outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. For Zeyad, the experience of becoming one of the most read Iraqi bloggers has been life-altering. “In my blog, I aimed for fairness and balance,” wrote Zeyad in an essay for his application to the School of Journalism. Zeyad, who doesn’t reveal his last name on his blog to protect his identity, has covered demonstrations, violent clashes between various groups, and the death of his cousin who drowned after an encounter with American soldiers. “I wish to improve and build on these skills in order to introduce new methods that would help develop and enrich Iraqi online journalism,” he wrote.