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SoCJ Hosts “Journalists at Risk Reporting on Gaza and Israel” Dec. 6

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...

November 30, 2023

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SoCJ’s Baxter appointed to British media ethics organization

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...

November 29, 2023

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Melanie Formosa outside Times Radio in London

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Formosa reflects on reporting from London as Colvin Fellow

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...

October 23, 2023

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SoCJ faculty, alumni contribute to WSHU science series

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...

October 18, 2023

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SoCJ’s Calvi Admitted to Leading Writers’ Workshops for His Literary Journalism

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...

October 4, 2023

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Colvin Center Hosts Hot Topics Conversation ‘Chilean Coup at 50,’ Sept. 13

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...

September 7, 2023

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Two journalism graduates interview Ukrainian refugees in a shelter in Moldova

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From Stony Brook to Moldova

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...

September 6, 2023

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SoCJ Awarded Solutions Journalism Network Grant

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...

August 21, 2023

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Colvin Center hosts two international scholars

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...

July 17, 2023

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Protesters at the Brookhaven landfill holding signs that say Closed Means Closed

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SoCJ students’ work about waste equity adapted for WSHU series

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...

June 20, 2023

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Lindenfeld to moderate panel at 2023 Nobel Prize Summit

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...

May 10, 2023

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Undergrad Melanie Formosa Wins International Journalism Fellowship

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...

April 24, 2023

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Annual Colvin Distinguished Lecture Fosters Conversation About Mental Health, April 20

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...

March 14, 2023

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Colvin Center hosts conversation, “China under Xi: Rising threat or stalled superpower?”

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...

February 23, 2023

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Colvin Center director reflects on Marie Colvin’s legacy 11 years later

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...

February 20, 2023

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Colvin Center Hosts Moldovan Communicator to Study Russian Propaganda

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...

December 7, 2022

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