Alumni News
May 20, 2008: Yale Journalism Scholars will pursue the following jobs and summer projects, many of them with the support of Yale Journalism Initiative fellowships:
• Nicole Allen will intern with The New Republic.
• Easha Anand will begin work as a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
• Allison Battey will intern at ProPublica.
• Michael Birnbaum will intern with the Washington Post.
• Catherine Cheney will intern at southern California's Daily Breeze before travelling to Guatemala City to report on the Guatemalan immigration movement to Los Angeles.
• Kimberly Chow will intern with the Associated Press in Brussels as part of Yale's Bulldogs in Brussels program.
• Ross Goldberg will intern with The New York Sun.
• Molly Green will continue her work as a community columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
• Dara Lind will spend her summer freelancing from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Sarah Mishkin will intern at the Financial Times in New York City.
• Vivian Nereim will intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as one of Yale's Paul Block Journalism Scholars.
• David Sherfinski will begin work as a staff reporter at the Washington Examiner. While at Yale, Sherfinski also wrote for Sports Illustrated.
• David Shieh will intern at the Austin American-Statesman.
• Justin Shubow will begin work as an associate editor of Commentary Magazine.
• Joyce Tagal will intern in London for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine as part of Yale's British Bulldogs program.
• Tyler Theofilos will intern at the College Music Journal in New York City.
• Cari Tuna will intern in the San Francisco bureau of the Wall Street Journal.
April 7, 2008: Dana Schuster publishes two pieces in the New York Press and one in Time Out New York.
March 28, 2008: Stanley Alcorn is the web editor for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
February 14, 2008: Stephanie Page Ogburn is writing for The Cortez Journal and just got a fellowship for the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources to go to their Energy Country Institute. (See some of her recent work here)
February 14, 2008: Dayo Olopade is one of the first contributors to The Root, the African-American themed e-zine.
February 14, 2008: Zack Greenburg keeps writing great stuff for Forbes.
January 7, 2008: Dayo Olopade continues to write frequently for The New Republic.
January 7, 2008: New Yale Journalism Scholar Alexandra Suich ‘08, using her winter break to report from Kenya, publishes a piece in Slate. Then, a couple days later, she is in Newsweek.
November 8, 2007: Yale Journalism Scholar Dana Schuster publishes her first piece in the New York Sun.
October 30, 2007: English 467 alumnus James Kirchick has joined The New Republic as assistant to the editor in chief.
October 11, 2007: Dayo Olopade has published her first piece as a staffer for The New Republic, and Zack Greenburg continues to write great stuff for Forbes.
September 25, 2007: Russell Brandom has begun his freelance career as a book critic.
September 18, 2007: After spending her summer as an intern at the Chicago Tribune, Helen Eckinger has accepted a job at the Orlando Sentinel.
September 12, 2007: English 467 alumnus Zack O'Malley Greenburg is now writing for Forbes, where he is covering all kinds of things.
September 9, 2007: After his summer as an intern at WIRED, Kent Garber has joined U.S. News and World Report as a reporter... Joshua Thomas is working as a communications specialist for Digital Opportunity Trust, a Canadian-based NGO. Right after Hurricane Katrina, the organization teamed up
with Cisco Systems to bring a technology-integration program to schools affected by the storm.
August 30, 2007: English 467 alumnus Justin Shubow has just written his first work of food criticism for The Onion. He has also been named a contributing editor of The Common Review.
August 27, 2007: Since being named Yale Journalism Scholars, Elizabeth Dickinson has begun work as The Economist's correspondent in Nigeria...Stephanie Ogburn has joined the Cortez Journal in Cortez, Colorado, as a reporter...Kent Garber, who won The Atlantic's non-fiction contest, has spent the summer as an intern at WIRED magazine...Nicholas Vinocur has spent the summer reporting for the online New Haven Independent, supported by a YJI fellowship...Kelly Bit has interned for Bloomberg News's broadcast division in New York...Stan Alcorn has worked for the Orange County Register...David Sadighian has reported from Dubai and London and for the Architectural Record as a freelance journalist...Russell Brandom has joined Urban Daddy, a New York and Los Angeles culture website. Dayo Olopade, another graduate of English 467, Yale's advanced journalism seminar, is now working at The New Republic.
June 1, 2007: The Yale Journalism Initiative announces summer funding for the following student projects:
• Stanley Alcorn's summer job at The Orange County Register.
• Kent Garber's summer job at WIRED.
• Katharine Kendrick's summer job at The Daily Star, the daily newspaper in Beirut (this grant is supported through the generosity of the Carnegie Foundation).
• Andrew Mangino's summer job at The New York Observer.
• Caroline Savello's summer job at The Standard, a business newspaper in Hong Kong (this grant is supported through the generosity of the Carnegie Foundation).
• Nicholas Vinocur's work for the New Haven Independent, an online, hyperlocal, nonprofit news site for New Haven, Conn.
May 8, 2007: The following students have been named the first Yale Journalism Scholars (click on their names to read samples of their work):
Kelly Bit
Russell Brandom
Rob Inglis
Noam Rudnick
Joshua Thomas
Nicholas Vinocur
