Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza spoke at a Thursday panel hosted by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study about his first-hand experience documenting life in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. The event, which gathered around 200 students and faculty, also featured Committee to Protect Journalists CEO Jodie Ginsberg, who discussed journalist.
A group of around 10 students protested the attendance of several major news outlets at a career fair held inside 20 Cooper Square, where NYU’s journalism department is located. Some protesters demonstrated outside the building while others entered to hand out flyers to students waiting in line to speak to publications like The New York.
A program director at NYU’s journalism institute may have been involved in hiring her former editor, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, as a professor in the department. The director, Katie Roiphe, had previously acknowledged the allegations against former Paris Review editor Lorin Stein in a 2018 essay. NYU recently canceled a graduate journalism.
Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. A graduate journalism class taught by former Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, who had resigned from his position at the magazine following allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017, was recently canceled following a WSN inquiry regarding the accusations against the editor. “I can confirm.