🌳 Environmental reporting shapes how we understand what’s at stake. Submit your work for the 2026 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, honoring reporting that makes exceptional contributions to public understanding of environmental issues.

On April 7, Sec @hillaryclinton.bsky.social, Amandeep Singh Gill, @mariaressa.bsky.social, @emilybell.bsky.social, @camillefrancois.bsky.social & Sara Sidner discuss how to safeguard freedom & democracy in the age of AI. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/2R5FmA5...

🌷 The 2026 Spring Challenge is here! Tag a classmate, fellow alum or friends and family, and help us unlock $50,000 for CJS students. Every gift supports financial aid and hands-on reporting opportunities for the next generation of journalists: https://bit.ly/3PJobFx

📷 Ready to break into audio? Audio Essentials Bootcamp is a hands-on online course for journalists and storytellers of all kinds, led by veteran audio journalist @kkschwab. The course covers everything from interviewing for voice and writing for the ear: journalism.columbia.edu/professional...

Spend part of your warm-weather months with Columbia Journalism School’s Summer Investigative Reporting Course, developing a major story and sharpening your skills in data, documenting and reporting. Learn more and secure your spot for July 6-24, 2026: journalism.columbia.edu/summer-inves...

🏅 Nominations are now open for the 2026 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, honoring a reporter with courage, character and integrity, and named for a pioneer in television news.

🎥 Emmy-winning journalist and Columbia Journalism School professor Nina Alvarez examines how Temporary Protected Status was moved toward termination for 600,000 people in Almost American. Now that same process is back, affecting 1.3 million people as the issue heads to the Supreme Court.

🎧 What audio story can you create in 56 hours? Columbia Journalism School’s Radio Race 2026, led by Sally Herships, Director of the Audio Program at CJS, challenges producers around the world to craft a 2-minute audio story between March 27 and April 5.

✒️ For the fourth time, Shelia Coronel, the Toni Stabile Prof. of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism and the Dir. of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, will return to co-lead the 2026 Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

🏆 Columbia Journalism School and the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social at @harvard.edu have announced the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners and finalists, honoring exceptional nonfiction writing on history, politics and social issues.

🎬 Congrats to Ryan Coogler on winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Sinners." ICYMI: Dean Jelani Cobb profiled Coogler for The @NewYorker. At CJS, see yourself learning interviewing and storytelling from Dean Cobb and other award-winning faculty: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🎬 Tuning into the Oscars this weekend? Check out work from Columbia Journalism School alumni and faculty this award season, from documentaries and short films to audio storytelling. Meet the nominees: journalism.columbia.edu/news...

🏫 On March 10, City Newsroom students got a front-row seat to local government at City Hall. Led by @juanmabenitez.bsky.social, Philip S. Balboni Professor of Professional Practice of Local Journalism, the class interviewed council members and produced short-form content in real time.

Can capitalism solve climate change? On Mar 9, join our Dean Alexis Abramson and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social's Marguerite Holloway for a dialogue with @katearonoff.bsky.social (@newrepublic.com), Aniket Shah, Chris Van de Voorde, and Archana Shah. Learn more/RSVP: https://bit.ly/4qVH7xA

Columbia Journalism School is proud to welcome @morganstateu.bsky.social’s School of Global Journalism & Communication to its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) network.

🥇 Coverage this good deserves gold, and CJS alumni delivered at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Check out 7 alumni who covered the Games across print, broadcast, photography and podcasting: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-alumni-2026-winter-olympics 📷: Gabriela Bhaskar / The New York Times

Columbia Journalism School is pleased to welcome Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication graduates to its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP).

🏆 Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard (@niemanfoundation.bsky.social) have announced the 2026 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, honoring outstanding works of American nonfiction in progress and in print.

🗞️ Congratulations to this year’s grantees of The Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice: Neena Satija of the Houston Chronicle and independent journalist Kayla Ruble.

Nominations are open for the oldest international journalism awards: The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes. This is your chance to recognize a journalist whose work in Latin America and the Caribbean helps foster understanding across the Americas. Submit by Mar. 12: journalism.columbia.edu/cabot

Local journalism matters—and we’re investing in it. CJS has named its 2026 Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) awardees, committing nearly $450,000 to support 45 alumni from CJS and @medillschool.bsky.social working in local newsrooms across the country: journalism.columbia.edu/news/2026-lr...

❄️ Six more weeks of winter? No problem. Our students continue to report live from New York in the rain, sleet or snow. 📷 Kalohelani Danbara, '26 M.S., Yeyya Wane, '26 M.S., Madhiha Anis, '26 M.S., Nathan Keowen, '26 M.S. Documentary #ReportingBeginsHere

🌍 Meet our Spring 2026 Climate Expert in Residence, Jenna Lawrence! A lecturer at Columbia Climate School and co-director of the Earth Network on Nature-based Solutions, Jenna will work with CJS students as part of the CJS2030 Climate Initiative: journalism.columbia.edu/news/2026-cj...

📝 What starts as a thesis at CJS doesn’t end in the classroom. Recent grads have transformed projects into deeply reported stories on global politics, migration, education, culture and human rights—published by @nytimes.com, @aljazeera.com, the BBC and more: journalism.columbia.edu/news/theses-...

👏 Congratulations to the 2026 duPont-Columbia Award Winners! Fifteen awardees—including several CJS alumni—traveled from around the globe to be honored as leaders in audio and video reporting. Learn more: journalism.columbia.edu/news/2026-du... @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 📷Chris Taggart

Following the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, CJS would like to remind journalists/the public their rights to record public events, free from gov. retaliation and assert journalist privilege–even when gov. authorities attempt to intimidate or silence reporting.

📸 Welcoming the 2026 Sulzberger cohort! Earlier this month, 28 Fellows kicked off the 20-week Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at CJS, mapping out projects for newsrooms across more than 10 countries and multiple U.S. states. Learn more: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/sulzberger-2026

In its continued commitment to ethics, security and public trust, CJS has named Anika Collier Navaroli, ’13 M.S., the Craig Newmark (@craignewmark.bsky.social) Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security.

A statement from Columbia Journalism School faculty on the federal raid of a @washingtonpost.com reporter’s home: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/faculty-statement-washington-post

🏆 Columbia Journalism School is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Meyer “Mike” Berger Award and the 2026 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, honoring outstanding human-interest reporting and coverage of racial or religious discrimination.

⏳ Just one week left! Strengthen your storytelling skills and advance your career with a graduate degree in journalism. Apply by January 12, 2026: journalism.columbia.edu/admissions

📝 CJS will continue to accept applications through Jan. 12! Submit all required materials by the deadline, including materials for scholarship consideration for domestic and international applicants, for the Class of 2027. Apply today: https://journalism.columbia.edu/admissions

📸 Where did the time go? As the fall semester wraps up, take a look back at 2025 at the J-School: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/2025-year-review #ReportingBeginsHere

🥘 Whose Borscht Is It Anyway? @katchow.bsky.social, Newsday/David Laventhol Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, thought her family’s corned beef stew was a Chinese twist on an Irish classic until reporting revealed its true history. Listen on Proof: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Beginning in 2026, Medill, in partnership with @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, will offer its graduate journalism alumni assistance with loan repayment if they work for a U.S. local news organization. Click here to learn more: spr.ly/63322CKJIQ

🎙️ Aida Alami, ’09 M.S., James Madison Visiting Professor on First Amendment Issues, and Dan O’Donnell, ’09 M.S., reunite as reporting lead and producer for American Public Media’s "Storytellers: Muslims, Community, and Culture in America": https://www.apmdistribution.org/apm-presents-news-and-talk

The world is waiting for your story. Financial aid is available for all students, both domestic and international. Submit your application by Dec. 15.

📃 Congrats to Dimuthu Attanayake, '26 M.S. Data Journalism – the 2025-2026 @nikkei.com Scholar! She will receive $100K to support her studies at CJS, highlighting the role scholarships can play in helping students from around the world: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/nikkei-scholarship-2025

Columbia Journalism School announced today a historic investment in student opportunity: nearly $10 million in scholarship support for 2026–27, made possible through the generosity of our donors. 📰 Learn more: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-expands-scholarship-access #ReportingBeginsHere

🌎 Since graduating in May, CJS Class of 2025 accepted new roles at more than 140 companies, including The @nytimes.com, Goldman Sachs, The United Nations and @npr.org. Abroad, others started new careers in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Japan, Finland and France, among others.

🗞️ Announcing the 2026 Sulzberger Fellows! Led by Corey Ford, these 28 newsroom leaders will spend 20 weeks driving projects that strengthen their organizations and the wider media ecosystem. Learn more about the intensive program and the cohort: journalism.columbia.edu/news/sulzber...

🏆 Submissions for the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Projects are open! Celebrate excellence in nonfiction literary research with four different awards, including two $25,000 Work-in-Progress Awards. Learn more and enter before December 4: journalism.columbia.edu/lukas

With support from the Knight Foundation, CJS has expanded its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) to @medillschool.bsky.social graduates, helping journalists pursue local reporting across the U.S. and strengthen communities coast to coast: https://bit.ly/49MAitl

🗞️ A look at our students on the ground covering NYC’s 2025 mayoral election across the five boroughs. See highlights of their reporting from polling stations, campaign events and local conversations across the city: https://bit.ly/4nE5xKr 📷: Julia Levine, '26 M.S.

🎉 Congratulations to the @wsj.com reporting team, winners of the 2025 WERT Global Prize; to @shurufu.bsky.social and @barbarademick.bsky.social, 2025 Welles Prize winners and to Douglas MacMillan, a Welles finalist recognized for his outstanding reporting: journalism.columbia.edu/news/2025-we...

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Howard French! His new book, "The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide," is one of the Publishers Weekly best non-fiction books of the year.

In her latest piece for The @newyorker.com, @aidaalami.bsky.social, James Madison Visiting Professor on First Amendment Issues, tells the story of Leqaa Kordia, who demonstrated outside Columbia’s campus gates and remains the last participant still detained by ICE: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

#ICYMI Deans Alexis Abramson of @climate.columbia.edu and @jelaniya.bsky.social of @columbiajournalism.bsky.social discuss how journalists & researchers can communicate the science of climate change with clarity and depth to foster informed action in a rapidly changing world. 🎥 youtu.be/REx_GQfLMVU

🎥 How does world-class journalism training intersect with long-form visual storytelling? Join our admissions reps for an online informational session on October 23 at 12 p.m. ET to learn more about CJS’s M.S. Documentary Specialization. Register here: https://bit.ly/4hn0xrZ

📍 #ColumbiaGivingDay is officially here! Support Columbia Journalism School by accessing daily and hourly challenges throughout the day. Want to learn more about CJS and how to grow the industry? Visit: https://bit.ly/4qi9uac and stay tuned for updates on our channels.