News and Documentary prepares students to report and produce short form and long form journalism for traditional and non-traditional media. From the first class, students are on the streets reporting, shooting and editing. We emphasize not only the story, but the storytelling. Our goal is to have a student skilled in both form and content, able tell a story by effectively using all aspects of the medium.

The Reporting I class begins with the basics of short form stories in a variety of formats and genres. After a progression of reporting classes, the curriculum culminates with each student producing a thirty-minute documentary. Our News Magazine editing class coincides with the Advanced Reporting class to give extra support to the production of the documentary.

Professor Peyronnin has had a successful 40 year career in television journalism as President of Fox News, Vice President and an awarding winning producer at CBS News. Peyronnin created Telemundo's first network news division. He is a weekly panelist on foxnew.com's Strategy Room and contributor to the Huffington Post.

NEW MASTER CLASSES

Not only do students work with full time faculty, but we now have a series of MASTER CLASSES that bring in the best independent documentary filmmakers in New York City. This year's series began with cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Other Master Classes scheduled for this year will feature Alan Berliner (alanberliner.com), veteran cinema verite producer, Susan Froemke and a sound recording class. We also host filmmaker screenings throughout the year so students can see current work and interact with filmmakers to learn more about the process and different styles.

Our students are in demand for internships at all the major broadcast news organizations and websites in New York as well as at smaller documentary production companies.

FACULTY


Prof. Rock shooting with Navajo Viet Nam Veteran



Professor Samuels and ABC News anchor Charles Gibson



Prof. Joe Peyronnin with Dan Rather in Institute studio