"Harlem View" online publication and senior Rhiannon Rashidi wins the Region One SPJ Mark of Excellence award for best News Videography.
“Harlem View” online publication at the City University of New York is the winner of the News Videography category of the 2023 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for the best collegiate journalism in the northeast region. Comparative Literature student and graduating senior Rhiannon Rashidi is the winner for her story “Coney Island residents oppose Casino.” This is the fourth year that CCNY dominated in the online videography category, having won 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Othniel Cassie, Jr., a junior, is a finalist in the Arts/Entertainment/Fashion Journalism category for his story “Jah Fiinesse goes lyrical.” Students from Harvard are the category winner and a finalist.
Rashidi and Cassie have minors in Journalism in the Media and Communication Arts Department in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts.
CCNY alumni Astra Montanez, Class of ‘23, who is now studying at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY, is a finalist in the General News Reporting (Large, 10k+ students) category for her story “New wave of asylum seekers needs bilingual education.” The winner is from Harvard University and a second finalist is from Columbia University.
Winners will compete at the national level against the 11 other SPJ regions, and the national winners will be announced in June.
About “Harlem View”
“Harlem View,” originally titled “Harlem Focus” when it launched in 2015, highlights often under-reported community issues in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and communities throughout the city where the City College of New York students live, work and play. Most of the content is reported and created by students in CCNY’s Journalism Program. Conceived as a project for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, on the content platform Medium, it was quickly recognized by the Online News Association as one of the Top 20 innovative journalism education ideas. “Harlem Focus” re-launched as “Harlem View” in Spring 2019.
About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi (now Lightcast) puts at $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. This year, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled “Doing Remarkable Things Together” seeks to bring the College’s Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.
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