MASTER'S PROJECTS: The 2008 Projects Launched

2008 New Media Master's Projects

Columbia Journalism School's new media majors have launched 14 in-depth web projects. These projects cover a wide range of topics and use several elements to tell compelling multimedia stories - video, audio, interactive graphics, slideshows, Flash, text, photojournalism and more. The students conceived, reported and produced these stories over several months as part of the school's Master's Project course. Please take a look. They'd love to get your feedback (each project has e-mail contacts for the team members).

• GreenGrog: A look at sustainable, organic and other cleaner-conscience beer
  by Dave Burdick, Kenan Davis
  http://www.greengrog.com
  
• Transgender at Work: Changing sex in corporate America
  by Amy Crawford, Lara Moscrip
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/transgender
  
• Waterfront Revisited: A look at the changes over the 60 years since the articles that inspired "On the Waterfront"
  by Anup Kaphle, Olivia Patten, Tim Peterson
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/waterfront/
  
• In This Corner: Profiles in Boxing: A report on boxing's downfall as a popular sport
  by Phil Caulfield, Dave Mayers, Kyle Murphy
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/boxing/
• No Place to Pray: Shi'a Muslims and religious discrimination in the New York State prison system
  by Sandra Larriva, Veronica Zaragovia
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/islam/
  
• Fish Food: How New Yorkers Catch, Cook and Eat Fish
  by Elaine He, Jami Makan
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/fish/
• Masters and Hustlers: How chess changes lives in New York City
  by Jennie Cohen & Radha Vij
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/chess
• Record Labels Try to Save Themselves: Musicians and the music industry attempt to profit in the digital world
  by Katya Soldak and Elsa Butler
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/music
• City Picklers: Reviving local food, one pickle at a time
  by Lisa Biagiotti and Elizabeth R. Stark
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/pickles/
• From Burma to New York: Stories of Burmese refugees
  by Divya Gupta, Karen Zraick, Lam Thuy Vo
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/burma
• Donations Gratefully Accepted: The survival of Brooklyn's homegrown museums
  by Morgan Bettex and Jaclyn Trop
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/museum/
• Women in Transit: Women cab drivers in New York City
  by Myrna Domit, Channtal Fleischfresser, Aliza Kassim
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/cab/
• Inside Home Birth: Mothers who turn their backs on hospitals and head home
  by Mathilde Piard and Michelle Stockman
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/birth/
  
• Philadelphia's Fall From Grace: How a once-proud city became its own punchline
  by Andrew Nusca
  http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/newmedia/2008/masters/philly/
  

Faculty advisers: Michael Cervieri, Russell Chun & Sree Sreenivasan (thanks to Megan Garber for her editing help)