CUNY Podcasts

New York City managed to survive the Great Recession largely intact and in roughly half the time it took the rest of the country to recover, thanks to its diversified economy combined with a bailout on Wall Street, according to Greg David, director of the Business and Economics Reporting Program at...

For New York Times columnist Dan Barry, it was the confluence of two critical events " a personal battle with cancer, followed by the heartbreak of 9/11 " that changed him both personally and professionally. “I came to understand, more acutely, the preciousness of life, not only as a person but as...

As a war correspondent in Iraq, George Packer’s reports for The New Yorker often included interviews with ordinary Iraqis, a technique he learned as a 20-something volunteer for the Peace Corps. “I learned how to approach people with whom I had almost nothing in common and draw out the thread of...

What Bill Keller, executive editor of New York Times, still enjoys, most, about journalism is what attracted him to it in the late 1960’s when he wrote for the Pomona College student newspaper. “The things I’ve always always found most satisfying about journalism was the exploratory function-w...

Christiane Amanpour challenged the 2010 class of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to adhere to the highest professional standards in her keynote address at the fourth commencement on December 15. “When you are good journalists and take the responsibilities of your craft on your shoulders, use i...

Newspapers and Google want the same thing: making good content available to as many people as they can, says Ken Auletta, author of “Googled: The End of the World As We know It.” But neither one has figured out who will cover the cost to make it happen. “Google wants to get professional conte...