Graduate School of Journalism

A former student of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism who was the victim of rape and torture last year took the stand in court Friday to testify against her alleged attacker.

Bill Grueskin is about to assume leadership of a type of education he never received—in the classroom. Although he never attended journalism school, Grueskin has been a newspaperman since 1975, when he reported for the Daily American in Rome, Italy. Despite his content-based Masters, the School of Journalism considers his 30 years of intense experience to be sufficiently educational.

The trial of Robert Williams, the 31-year-old man accused of raping and torturing a student of the Graduate School of Journalism last year, began Thursday with an opening statement by the prosecution.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism professor and longtime Associated Press editor Sam Boyle died Sunday, Feb. 3 after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 59 years old.

As Columbia aspires to become a global university, one course transports students across the planet. Members of Covering Religion at the School of Journalism will travel to Ireland this spring break.

Documentary filmmaker Ofra Bikel has won so many prizes that a prestigious award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is “not really going to make one bit of difference” in her career, she said.