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.
Browse by date (below) or subject concentration:
Capstones from 2015
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
HipsteRevolution, Alessandra Malito
Iggy Azalea: Cultural appropriator or scapegoat for accepted practice?, Malorie Marshall
Lady Luck: The Rise of Women Problem Gamblers, Antonia Massa
The Bitter Pill: How Second-Wave Feminism Failed, and Why It Doesn't Matter, Brianna McGurran
Undocumented Transgenders Fear Getting Sent Back Home Where They Were Discriminated, Denisse Moreno
Where is all the conservative comedy?, Oliver Morrison
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: More than a lame duck, Julius Motal
Mosque Infiltration: How They Fought Back, Reem Nasr
In Vietnam, a Chinese Skytrain Sheds Light on Tough Bilateral Ties, Chau Ngo
Are Indie Artist Better Off?, Chinwe Oniah
When You Can't Watch What You Eat: Examining the FDA’s Recall Process for Food Allergies, Jacob Passy
Howard Dolgon: AHL Juggernaut, Madeleine Perkins
Umzabalazo, Nareshnee Pillay
Riot - The End of Violent Protests in New York, Rikki Reyna
Urgent Cares Outpace Health Policy In The U.S., Ashley Rodriguez
Pawns and Paranoia: Baltic-American Anxiety over Russian Aggression, Leila Roos
No Waste: NYC, Minda Smiley
The Country Club Sport: The Decline of African-Americans in Baseball, Elijah Stewart
Overcoming Obstacles, Melisa Stumpf
Out of Reach, Benjamin Tenerella-Brody
Escape From Reality, Steven Trader
Trapped in the Commons, Max Willens