Newmark Journalism School hosts information session at SCMS 

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York (CUNY) recently organized an information session at SCMS. 

The online information session was joined by the associate director of admissions at CUNY, Jeanette Tavarez. Also present was SCMS alum Max Maldonado (Multimedia Journalism, ’20).

Inspired by one such information session in 2018, Maldonado applied for the graduate program at CUNY after graduating in 2020. He got accepted into the program in fall 2020 and currently lives in New York City. 

Maldonado recently shared his experience at CUNY in an interview with FAU’s South Florida Journal, a podcast produced by the students of SCMS (under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Petrich). He talked about his reporting experience at the Community District 9, located in the Bronx.

“They put you in a community district for your entire time that you are at CUNY,” said Maldonado, “…(you can) do really hyper local reporting and gain a lot of contacts within a certain area, … to really just ground yourself into the community.” 

More information about the journalism graduate program at CUNY can be found here. 

You can hear Max Maldonado discuss his CUNY experience on South Florida Journal .