Capstones
These are the capstone projects of students at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. These are culminating projects in the student's main area of interest.These projects showcase the student's competence in converged piece of journalism for their completion of the master's program here at the The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
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Capstones from 2019
The Women Against Violence Experiment (W.A.V.E.): social journalism solutions to help immigrant women protect themselves against abuse, Isadora Varejao
Whatever Happened to the Movie Theme Song?, Luka Vasic
One Salvadoran Mother Was Determined to Bring Her Son to the U.S. Legally— It Took 24 Years, Maggie Veatch
Google has a labor problem, and it’s not just coming from its employees, Daniel Whateley
The Miss America Pageant Should Restore Prioritizing the Evening Gown Segment, KEISHEL WILLIAMS
Postpartum Pains, Lakea Youngblood
Getting it right: New York can make its ‘inevitable’ marijuana industry accessible before it’s too late, Kelly Zegers
Capstones from 2018
Country's Unwanted Children, Amr Alfiky
BIASED, Janessa M. Andiorio Ms.
Island of Harm Reduction, Trevor T. Boyer
The New World of Pet Prosthetics, Anna Brooks
Transgressed Bodies, Estephani Cano Martinez
Art That Heals, Christina Cardona
The Saint of the Sick & the Poor, Itzel Castro
Immigrants at New Jersey detention center struggle to get basic care, Lea Ceasrine
Inside C3: Portrait of a Megachurch, Andrew Chandler and Reece T. Williams
Suicide Watch: How Netflix Landed on a Cultural Landmine, Shabnaj Chowdhury
Sleep Paralysis: Dreams, Demons and REM-Atonia, Joshua G. Christensen
Reimagining Essex Street Market, Madeleine M. Crenshaw
Trade Rout: As Trade Tensions Built Between U.S. And Canada, This American Border Town Felt The Freeze, Matt Cutler and Isaac Carey
The Fight Before the Fight: Weight-Cutting in Mixed Martial Arts, Michael T. DeSantis
What can we learn from rapper and provocateur, Azealia Banks?, Robert A.R. Dozier
America's New Favorite Food, Laura E. Duclos and Sshiva Tejas M
Women are being cut during childbirth without need or consent, Molly Cora Enking
Telling the Good News, Allyson R. Escobar
The Diaspora at Home, Ivan A. Flores
A.V.O Boyz: The Rise of Afrobeats Through Dance, Oumou Fofana
Politically-connected Nonprofit Makes Millions Putting Homeless Families in Unsafe Homes, Benjamin Foldy
Visiting the "Golden God": Roundtrip from Chinatown to the Blackjack Tables, Katherine Fung
Democracy Later, Dave A. Gentile Mr
Linda Collazo: A Bronx Aria, Jose A. Giralt
Amenazado en Venezuela, en espera en EE.UU., Hernan Goicochea and Juan Garcia
“I felt scared, like I was nobody”: Native American athletes and fans face widespread racism at sport events, Kalen Goodluck
As the Clothing Industry is a Major Polluter, Sustainable Fashion is Rising, Gabe Herman
Public Charge Proposal Spawns “Chilling Effect” Within Immigrant HIV Community, Say Service Providers, Karina Hernandez
Jason Jones se propone acabar con la ley de sodomía en el Caribe, Maite Hernandez and Isvett Verde
Dios, drogas, dinero: ¿quién gana con el traslado de adictos de Puerto Rico a EE.UU.?, Claudia E. Irizarry Aponte and Eliana Y. Perez
Make Art Conservative Again, Gurami Jamaspishvili
Trapped in the Towers, Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
A Mother and Son Are Reunited After 18 Years, Comice Johnson
New Roots: A Transracial Adoption Story, Scarlett Kuang
The Gentrification of Drag, Kyle Kucharski
NIMBY: Not In My Backyard, Ariama Long
This Land Is Ours Land, Richard J. Loria
Surviving A Death Sentence, Amy K. Mackinnon
On paper, immigrant detention centers meet standards to prevent sexual assault. But assault continues. Why?, Samantha A. Maldonado, Sarah V. Matusek, and Paula Moura
Guardians of Virtue, Tamsen Maloy and Tasia Jensen
Unlocking the mysteries of Weed and Mexico, Eddy Martinez
A MODERN-DAY AFFLICTION: DID WIFI MAKE JOEL DEAN SICK?, Dominic McKenzie
Lords from the Desert, Caroline Mercado
From Virtual to Physical: Video Game Streaming Communities, Avery Miles
Behind the student loan debt crisis, new benefits solutions, Sarah Min
The Curious Case of Will Brooke, Adam Muro
¿Quien llora a las mujeres invisibles? / Who Mourns The Invisible Women?, Sindy A. Nanclares and Sofía Cerda Campero
The Capital of Dying Languages, Masahiro Ogamino Mr.
THE CAPITAL OF DYING LANGUAGES, Masahiro Ogamino Mr.
Cannabis caught between smoke and mirrors, Laura M. Olivieri Robles
New York's Fight for $15: Who Wins, Who Loses?, Piter Ortega
WildNYC- A look into urban wildlife and wildlife research in the city., Anurag Prasad Papolu
Boom and Bust: How Private Detention Centers Wreak Economic Havoc on the Counties that Turn to them for Stability, Max W. Parrott and Reynaldo Leanos Jr.
Addicted to the answer, Charumathi Raman
Offset: How the government improperly takes money from the disabled, Carmen Reinicke
The Invisible Brain Injury Crisis, Michael E. Rosenthal
Canada’s tariffs on American consumer goods linger, despite appearance of trade truce, Willa Rubin
Beneath Brooklyn’s Darkened Skies, Court Continues Long Into the Night, Emilie Ruscoe
Heal Thyself, Teranderose Russell
Climate grief hits the self-care generation, Avichai Scher
El Angelito de los Migrantes Veracruzanos toma la Forma de una Paquetería Neoyorquina, Julia L. Sclafani
ADAPTING TO $15: As the Minimum Wage Approaches $15 in NYC, Business Owners Are Finding Ways to Make it Work, Alexandra Semenova and Sharif Paget
Urbanely Chained: Issues Within A City, Esther Shittu
Eternally Poor, Kalah Siegel
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Pick Up the Pieces After Defunding Scare, Camille Danielle Smith
What Role is Neuroscience Playing in New State Raise-the-Age Laws?, Dane N. Stallone
Black Hair in Local Television: When Will Hair Just be Hair?, Shari Straker
Beyond "The One"/ More Than "The One", Andrea Nicole Tagle and Shelby Boamah
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?, Violetta Torres-Baron
The Cult of Names, Shaydanay A. Urbani
Revival, Anya van Wagtendonk
I AM A MAN: How legacy and inheritance bear a heavy burden on black masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun, Barbershop, and Creed, Aliyah D. Veal
Kinder Carnage, Talib Visram
The Art of Fortune-Taking, Allison Weintraub
How Immigrants are Redefining Hudson Valley Dining, Kevin Wheeler
Staying Afloat in a Dying Industry, Naomi Yane
The Mental Health Toll of Amazon Warehouse Work, Max Zahn
Capstones from 2017
Lost Wisdom of the Elders, Miamichelle Abad
Running Out of Options: The Threat of Declining Competition, Tanvi P. Acharya
Green card veterans - deported and forgotten, Vicki Adame
Without a Caveat: How an Ethiopian Immigrant Deconstructs Race in America, Priscilla Alabi
TWO-WAY CONTRACTS: THE SOLUTION FOR THE NBA, Stefan Anderson
The Gift that Keeps One Living, Scott R. Axelrod
Sneaker Culture Has Given Black Men Fashion Freedom While Creating Restriction, Shaquille-Omari Bekoe
Tropes Trump Politics, Aaron Berkowitz
Breadcrumbs: Privacy as a Privilege, Prachi Bhardwaj
Mixed Feelings: Growing Up Biracial in America, Alexandra Boothe
Probing Consciousness, Samia Bouzid
Do Rio, Barbara Brasil Marcolini
New York's Daily Foster Care Reimbursements, Mariah Brown
What Bitcoin Is, and How It Can Change Commerce, Jeffrey Bukhari
The Unspoken Truth, Cherese Butler