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 2015
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LANDS: A STORY OF JAPANESE BRAZILIANS, Ken Aragaki
Naturally Intense: America's Body Builders, Pilar M. Belendez-Desha
First Year Sober and a Lifelong Journey, Lisa Brown
Super Bronx Boys, Andrew Caringi
Restaurant Owners Owing Millions of Dollars to Workers Close Down, Only to Open Again Under Related Owners, Rajashree Chakravarty
Wasted New York, Aliza D. Chasan
How Can We Build A Moral Robot?, Kristen E. Clark
South Africa's Forgotten Freedom Fighters, Kimberly H. Conner and Natasha Scully
Byrd, Maya Dangerfield
Brooklyn Trash Problems, Christina Diaz
Bike-geist NYC, Jack D'Isidoro
Stepsisters, Patrick Donachie
Battle Echoes Never Fade: Soldiers' Trauma at the End of Life, John E. Eller
The Reanimation of the Zombie Genre, William Engel
You're Only As Good As You Do In School: Asian American Students and the Mental Risks They Face in Higher Education, Asia C. Ewart
Inmates guide inmates through peaceful deaths, and find peace with themselves, Maura Ewing
The Battle Against Childhood Obesity, Allison Fox
Neurologists Look at Causes of Baffling Brain Condition, Maggie Freleng
Geisha On Fire, Beimeng Fu
When Birth Control Hurts You: An Essure Investigation, Mia A. Garchitorena
Leaving Home, Keeping the Faith, Damian J. Geminder
Heartbreak and Defiance: Stories of Crisis in Puerto Rico, Andrea C. González-Ramírez
Flaws in the Justice System: Examining the Angel Cordero Case, Rose C. Itzcovitz
Reshaping the Event Horizon‑ Marketing Utopia at Music Festivals, Justin D. Joffe
Transgender and Black, Looking for an Audience, Brian C. Josephs
The Struggle Of Female Fighters, Anthony R. Kane
Losing Ground, Alison Kanski
In the Race to Reach New Wine Drinkers Old World Taste is Losing Out, Lillian Knoepp
#SociallyConnected: The Now and Then Era of the Fangirl, Tionah Y. Lee
How N.Y.’s Biggest For-Profit Nursing Home Group Flourishes Despite a Record of Patient Harm, Jennifer Lehman
She's Having A Baby and Cancer, Ashley Lewis
Oil: A Cautionary Story, Kat Long
Silk Wings: The Making of Noma, SANDRA C. LOPEZ-MONSALVE
A Schizophrenic Wedding, Calista MacHarrie
Webcam Child Sex Abuse, Lena Masri
Female fighters fight toward equal footing, Desiree A. Mathurin and Ryan Wallerson
Masked Superheroes: Lucha Libre in New York, Lucina Melesio Friedman
Lives on Hold and Dreams Delayed, Andrew Menezes
Police Misconduct Towards the Transgender Community, Carlotta Mohamed
3 Kings of Bangkok, Alden F. Nusser
The Smell Of Hopelessness, Juline Cariba Rachel Party
UNSETTLING: THE REAL INFLUX OF SYRIAN REFUGEES, Isabel M. Riofrio, KanyaKrit Vongkiatkajorn, and Marguerite Ward
Sound Affects, Catherine Roberts, Cole Rosengren, Jessica Bal, Samuel Lieberman, Dave Gershgorn, and Gabriela Sierra Alonso
Invisible Voices, Ana M. Rodriguez
The Fight For Zadroga, Naeisha Rose
Startup Elsewhere, Michaela Ross
Voiceless, Maria Sanchez Diez
Daily Fantasy sites engage in a legal war for survival, Danni R. Santana
Special Muscles, Annamaria C. Scaccia
Outrage Is the New Black, Derek R. Scancarelli
The Forgotten Freedom Fighters, Natasha Scully and Kim Conner
Greenpoint's Superfund Problem, Helina Selemon
Liver Transplantation Today: a look at geographic disparities, Karen Shakerdge
A New Charter Challenges Popular Paradigms, Levi Sharpe
Beyond the Ring: Vegan Fighter, Bianca Silva
The Fate of $15, John S. Spina
ATH #142, Joseph Swide
400 Meters, Luke Tress
Unsettling: The Flawed US Refugee System, Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn
Unsettling: Syrian Refugees and the Struggle to Resettle, Marguerite Ward
The Long Road Back, Brooke Williams
Capstones from 2014
Counterfeit Ed, Meral Agish, Sarah Barrett, Mark Fahey, Audrey McGlinchy, Jacob Naughton, and Oresti Tsonopoulos
Dead Women and White Men: Why Are Today’s Hit Noir Shows Still Stuck in the Gender/ Race Politics of the ‘40s and ‘50s?, Zainab Akande
SKIN, Colin Archdeacon
Well-born: Black Women and the Infertility Crisis No One is Talking About, Kaara Baptiste
Turning Waste into Resources in Haiti, Alexis Barnes
Hockey's Cutting-Edge Canvas – The Art of the Goalie Mask, Jacob Becker
Raped and Escaped: A Colombian Mother’s Fight to Protect her Sons, Melanie Bencosme
Ain't No Love in New York City, Jason Bisnoff
Two-way street: A parent-child approach to learning could close the nation's inequality gap, Rebecca Bratek
Rebranding Religion, Parker Brown
Iron Tower, Laura Bult
The Life of a Moral and Radical Crusader, Anugya Chitransh
Seniorpreneurs: the new aspect of retirement, Valentina Cordero
Fatboy Sessions, Graham Corrigan
Happiness is a black gun, Terence Cullen
Mapping a city's invisible residents, Kelly Dickerson
A Life on Pause, Briana Duggan
Made in China No More, Arman Dzidzovic
The Diary of an Ex-Con, Erica Edwards
The Secessionists Played Soccer, Natalie Fertig
Battle Over School Choice, Bianca Flowers
X-Cel-ing to Rio, Nicholas Forrester
Travails of the Travestis, Kiratiana Freelon
7 Million Americans Can’t Escape ‘Dead End’ Jobs, Patrick Gillespie
Looking for jazz gigs in New York, Camilo Gomez
Obscure Certificates Could Cut Down Recidivism, Frank Green
A Tale of Two Knicks Teams, Madison Hartman
Rethinking School Discipline, Gwynne Hogan
Motherland, Kayle Hope Schnell
Black Seoul, Victoria Johnson
Sending Drugs into the Fast Lane, Ross Keith
McDonald's or Mesquite: Struggles on the Salt River Pima Reservation, Stefani Kim
2-D or Not 2-D?: How the Iris Closed on Hand-Drawn Feature Animation, Thad Komorowski
The Coops After the Storm, Caroline Lewis
Veins of the City, Daniel Lewis
The Wild West of Edible Insects, Kyle Ligman
Trauma in Foreign Correspondents, Pearl Macek