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A message from the Marie Colvin Center on the release of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich
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A message from the Colvin Center regarding the release of Evan Gershkovich - SBU News Wonderful news! Evan Gershkovich, the Moscow correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, is a free man after being released from jail in Russia. Evan should never have been jailed in the first place. He was wrongfully arrested, convicted of spying without any evidence and held hostage by Vladimir Puti...

A Message from the Marie Colvin Center: Wonderful news! Evan Gershkovich, the Moscow correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, is a free man after being released from jail in Russia. We want to thank you for coming to hear Jay Conti, the general counsel and executive vice-president of Dow Jones, tell us first-hand about the Wall St Journal’s efforts to keep the public spotlight on Evan, while working tirelessly behind the scenes to secure his release. Your support for Evan was a vital contribution to the enormous efforts to free him.

He was wrongfully arrested, convicted of spying without any evidence and held hostage by Vladimir Putin until his release as part of a historic prisoner swap. Journalism is not a crime!

We are also grateful to Jay and Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, for their immense efforts on Evan’s behalf. Emma Tucker was the keynote speaker at the Annual Distinguished Marie Colvin Lecture in March 2024 on the one-year anniversary of Evan’s detention. The Colvin Center is proud to have played a part in highlighting Evan’s wrongful imprisonment.

Evan was freed with former US Marine, Paul Whelan, journalist Alsu Kumasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident and Pulitzer-prize winning columnist. You can read more about their release in the Wall Street Journal. I also strongly recommend a gripping piece about the secret negotiations to free Evan and the bravery and determination shown by his fiercest advocate, his mother (link in bio). It is journalism at its finest. We hope to hear more from Evan in person.

Thank you so much for your support for all that we do. Welcome back, Evan! It is wonderful to have him home.

Sarah Baxter
Director, Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting

We highly recommend Prof. Pablo Calvi's latest in The Believer magazine - The Recollector, about the fight over memory and the lasting pain of Japanese internment during

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Thanks to WAMC Northeast Public Radio for the story about our students' work to create Coping with Crisis: Journalists on the Frontline, a toolkit for early-career and student reporters reporting on and dealing with trauma.
The project was created with support from the Solutions Journalism Network Student Media Challenge
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Strengthening student journalism On this episode of The Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll learn about the students and faculty at Stony Brook University who have created a resilience tool kit for student journalists.

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Journalism without Walls is back! Three students - .flowerss and - are in Nepal this month with prof , director of the Colvin Center. Can’t wait to hear the stories and reporting from this trip! Photos courtesy of and thanks to

Round 2 of some of the incredible mortar boards at SoCJ convocation. A big day for everyone at for !!!

Mortarboard game is STRONG at SoCJ convocation today! Congrats to all our graduates - we are SO PROUD of all of you!

Congratulations to Lily McInerney, who won a top 10 Hearst Award for her story, Humanity behind History.
The story humanizes Holocaust survivors by looking at their lives and interests, and how we can keep their stories alive.

SoCJ’s Lily McInerney Wins Top 10 in Hearst Journalism Competition - SBU News Lily McInerney, a senior journalism major with a multidisciplinary cultural analysis concentration, placed seventh in the nation in a recent Hearst Journalism Awards competition. McInerney placed in the multimedia category for a story that she began working on in January 2023. Humanity behind Histor...

Some of our graduating seniors took part in our annual tradition of singing the news desk. They left fantastic advice for those to come. We will miss them and hope they visit soon!!!

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Roth Regatta Live! 10th Anniversary Special Catch End-to-End Coverage of the Roth Regatta Live from Stony Brook University.Special Thanks to Bagel Express and Tropical Smoothie Café for their support.G...

Super proud of and for being accepted into the summer internship program. Jane and Kaitlyn will be part of the multi-platform editing team! Learn more on our website - link in bio. While not required, internships are a vital and transformative part of life at the SoCJ, and many of our students complete more than one before they graduate.

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’s Mascot Madness is back! Wolfie is the reigning champion and is going for a threepeat this year. Vote for your favorite seawolf every 12 hours: https://bit.ly/VoteWolfie

Laura Lindenfeld, dean of the SoCJ and executive director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, is the finalist for Administrator of the Year from Scripps Howard Fund. What an honor! Stony Brook University
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Thrilled to support local newsrooms through this great SUNY initiative

Institute for Local News at SUNY looks to connect young journalists with struggling newsrooms The State University of New York has launched a system-wide effort to have college students produce local news.

Our journalism students are helping lead a effort to create stories for local media on Long Island.
Read more about it in the Statesman!

New SUNY Initiative bridges gaps in local news coverage In the fall of 2023, Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism (SOCJ) created a new class called JRN 390 (Special Topics in Journalism: Working News Room #2) in which students help local news publications that may not have enough resources to provide news coverage for their c...

It’s that bittersweet time of year again where our graduating seniors sign off (literally) at the news desk. Congrats to Daniella Rodriguez, Sydney Riddle Christine Kelley…and all of our Winter Graduates 🎓!