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Launched in 2023 as part of the CJS2030 Access Initiative, LRAP has awarded more than $1 million to journalists nationwide — strengthening the pipeline of community-centered reporting and advancing a more sustainable future for local news.

Morgan State becomes the fourth journalism school to join this growing national collaboration, helping graduates pursue full-time work in local newsrooms with meaningful loan repayment support.

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

Since launching in 2023 as part of the CJS2030 Access Initiative, LRAP has awarded more than $1 million in assistance, helping journalists build sustainable careers in local newsrooms across the United States.

Read the full announcement: journalism.columbia.edu/lrap-cjs-asu...

This expansion provides new resources for early-career journalists to grow their skills and advance in local newsrooms. The Cronkite School becomes the third leading journalism institution to join the growing LRAP network, alongside CJS and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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).

Bryce Andrews, @zephoria.bsky.social, Esmé E. Deprez, Sarah Esther Maslin, @karimzidan.com, @benchansfield.bsky.social, Rich Benjamin, @mariahblake.bsky.social, Jeff Hobbs, Danielle Leavitt, Sven Beckert, Nicholas Boggs, William Dalrymple, Siddharth Kara and Martha A. Sandweiss.

Awards will be presented at Columbia Journalism School this May.

Read the full list of 2026 shortlisted titles: journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...

#LukasPrizes

This year’s shortlisted books and proposals grapple with some of the most urgent issues of our time, from democracy and data to environmental harm, war, inequality and the shadows of history.

🏆 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.

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This year's fellows were selected for work that advances rigorous reporting on race, gender and civil and human rights.

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🗞️ 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.

📷 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners with Dean Jelani Cobb (center). From left to right: Natalia Viana, Nora Gámez Torres, Omaya Sosa Pascual, Paola Margot Ugaz Cruz, and Isabella Cota. Credit: Chris Taggart.

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...

📷 Francesca Maria Lorenzini, ‘24 M.S., shortly after graduating from Columbia Journalism School, reporting aboard an aircraft sending humanitarian aid to Gaza in August, 2025. Credit: Ahmad Khlifat.

📝 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...

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📷Chris Taggart

For guidance, see resources from the Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom.bsky.social): journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-res...

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

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“The work of ethics and security in journalism and technology is essential now more than ever," said Navaroli. "I am grateful for Craig's generosity, and I am delighted to lead the Center as Columbia Journalism School continues to meet this moment."

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