Awards, Internships and Jobs
"GloJo" came together as a Journalism field of study in 2007. Here's what some of our alumni and current students are doing.
2009
Jeremy Tanner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has taken an entry-level news position at WPIX-TV.
Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies '08) is an editor at rgemonitor.com.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is working at Cultures of Resistance.
Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) interns in the summer of 2009 for The New York Times for the Brooklyn edition of The Local in Fort Greene.
Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) was promoted to assistant online editor of The Americas. He continues to consult for Hearst on search engine optimization. The blog he started with a group of friends in 2005, The Seminal, is to become part of Fire Dog Lake. The week of June 22, 2009 he will be presenting a conference paper in Havana on the sustainable agricultural practices Cuba developed following the fall of the Soviet Union. The conference is organized through the Research Network in Cuba.
Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) is reporting full-time for The East Hampton Press.
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is interning at the New York Daily News.
Jelena Kopanja (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) interns at salon.com.
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) won the 2009 Stan Swinton Scholarship of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. As part of his award, the Associated Press posts him in Mexico City in the summer of 2009.
Jeremy Tanner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is interning at CNN Espanol.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is the Middle East intern for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) works full-time for Hearst Magazines Online.
Stephen Brown (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) has a Spring 2009 paid internship at The Daily Beast.
Shahan Mufti (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) became the Pakistan correspondent for GlobalPost.com as the website launched early in 2009.
2008
Clementine Gallot (Glojo-French Studies 2008) is a New York reporter for the French magazine, France-Amerique
Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) had a fall 2008 internship at Newsweek International.
Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) had a summer 2008 internship at CNN International in New York City.
Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) landed a summer 2008 internship at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. In fall 2008 he worked with Radio France Internationale on Election 2008 as RFI prepared to and then broadcast live from the Institute's own studios.
Gabriela Reardon's (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) takeout for City Limits, based on her master's project on asylum prospects for Latin American gang members won the 2007 PASS award in the Web category. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency sponsors the award.
Jeffrey Iverson (GloJo-French Studies 2007) reports from Paris for Time magazine.
Amy Van Vechten (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is currently a multimedia producer for FLYP magazine. In the summer of 2007, she reported for LiveWire from the European Union in Brussels for six weeks and produced a piece that appeared in Abroad View. On her return from reporting her master’s project in Brussels and Paris, she and fellow NYU graduate students Nadia Taha, Joy Keh, Michael Rundle and Clare Trapasso placed second in the NLGJA (National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association) Excellence in Student Journalism Award for their multimedia project and Amy was one of four students selected and sponsored to attend the program in San Diego. In the fall of 2007, she interned for the ABC News long-form unit.
Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) interned in the summer of 2007 at The New York Times Paris bureau and in the 2007-8 school year at New York 1.
Arcynta L. Ali Childs (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) was chosen to participate in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). This was only the second year of the NAHJ program, and the second time an NYU Journalism graduate student has won one of the 20 spots.
Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) won a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, which included $10,000. She worked with Bill McKibben (the New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's, etc.) among others, and the program is helping with publication of her master's project.
Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2007) interned at the Council on Foreign Relations and wrote backgrounders on the French military that also appeared in The New York Times. His other backgrounders are archived on the CFR site. He now does research and produces for the web for The French-American Foundation.
Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) reported from Miami for The New York Times during her Institute fellowship and wrote "An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless." From New York, she published repeatedly during the internship that followed. She then moved on to Newsday.
Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) writes for the Damascus-based weekly, Thara.
