Alumni News
May, 2009: Congratulations to the 2009 Journalism Initiative Scholars: Andrew Mangino, Sarah Mishkin, Victor Zapana, Uma Ramiah, Robert Quigley, Vivian Nereim, Pete Martin, Katharine Kendrick, Thomas Kaplan, Ashley Gutierrez, Daniel Fromson, Gabor Debreczeni , Kimberly Chow, Catherine Cheney, Jorge Castillo, Laura Bennett, Isaac Arnsdorf and Caroline Berson.
April, 2009: Halfway through a 12-month internship with US News and World Report, Amanda Ruggeri was promoted! She is now reporter on the Nation and World Desk. Zack O'Malley Greenburg continues to write for Forbes Magazine. He recently published an account of a trip to Sierra Leone and most of the stories in the Forbes baseball package.
January, 2009: Happy New Year! Dayo Olopade has taken on a new job as the Washington reporter for the Root, an online magazine focused on presenting the African American viewpoint. Despite the meltdown on Wall Street, Zack Greenburg continues at Forbes, writing on Google searches and abandoned mines.
November 2008: Checking in with our alumni: A collection of Dayo Olopade's work for the Atlantic, the New Republic and elsewhere can be found on her new website ... Molly Green is up and running with her blog on the Huffington Post ... but lest you think all Yale journalism alumni are liberals, check out Justin Shubow's work for Commentary's blog (here, about Rachel Maddow, and here, about Gov. Palin) ... Amanda Ruggeri is doing some great work on the Nation & World desk for U.S. News and World Report...Helen Vera has clocked in over two years as a fact-check for Vanity Fair in New York
September 9, 2008: Justin Shubow has started blogging about an eclectic mix of high and low culture for Commentary.
September 1, 2008: Elizabeth Dickinson started work as an assistant editor with Foreign Policy magazine in Washington D.C.
April 7, 2008: Dana Schuster publishes two pieces in the New York Press and one in Time Out New York.
March 28, 2008: Stan 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.
April 7, 2008: Dana Schuster publishes two pieces in the New York Press and one in Time Out New York.
March 28, 2008: Stan 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.
