The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at the School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) will host a live online panel discussion about the Israel-Hamas War and its impact on journalists at 3 pm...
Sarah Baxter, director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism, was recently appointed to the Independent Press Standards Organization, a non...
By Melanie Formosa ’23 Imagine settling down in another continent for a month and a half after college graduation with a job already set up and a room waiting for you. I had a whole other life in London for six...
Two Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism lecturers and a recent graduate produced a growing series of stories for WSHU, a regional NPR affiliate station, about climate change on Long Island and in...
Pablo Calvi, associate professor of journalism at the Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ), was accepted to two highly selective programs for professional writers and literary journalists. “Pablo...
The School of Communication and Journalism’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting will host its first hot topics conversation of the semester on Wednesday, September 13, at 1 pm. The event, “Chilean...
This summer, two Stony Brook journalism graduates went to Moldova to report from the eastern European nation that shares a border with Ukraine. During the two-week trip, the students wrote and shot a video telling...
Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) has won a $10,000 award from the Solutions Journalism Network’s Student Media Challenge. The school’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting will use...
This fall, the Colvin Center for International Reporting will host two visiting fellows through the IREX Community Solutions Program, an international fellowship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with...
A team of graduate students from the School of Communication and Journalism spent a lot of time this year talking about garbage, specifically the tons of trash dumped in the Brookhaven landfill. Their work, published on...
Update: Watch the recorded conversation on YouTube. Laura Lindenfeld, executive director of the Alda Center for Communicating Science and dean of the School of Communication and Journalism, will moderate a panel of...
In her four years at Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ), Melanie Formosa has done just about everything. She hosted a podcast about the return to campus after the worst of the pandemic. She...
When tragedies strike, wars break out or conflicts erupt, reporters are often among the first to arrive at the scene. They tell stories about immense suffering and pain, and are often reluctant to acknowledge their own...
The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at the School of Communication and Journalism will host a live virtual panel, “China under Xi: Rising threat or stalled superpower?” at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1. The...
Portrait of Sarah Baxter, Colvin Center director, journalism instructor and Sunday Times writer. Photo by Jez Coulson The last time I saw Marie Colvin was at the launch party for the 50th anniversary exhibition of The...
The war in Ukraine is being fought on two fronts: the battlefield, where Ukrainian soldiers have been holding their own for nearly a year, and the media, where the Russian government has a distinct advantage. This fall...
On September 16, 2022, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died in Tehran in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Her death fueled immediate unrest that was at first focused on the state-mandated hijab for...
Women. Life. Freedom. Those three words and the fires women are using to burn their hijab have ignited a protest across Iran, challenging the Islamic republic and the face of a nation. The Marie Colvin Center for...