Research Center

3rd floor

Main Phone: (646) 758-7728/7730

Barbara Gray, Associate Professor, Chief Librarian

Phone: (646) 758-7735

barabara.gray@journalism.cuny.edu

Tinamarie Vella, Library Manager, Research Center

Phone: (646) 758-7752

tinamarie.vella@journalism.cuny.edu

The Newmark J-School Research Center is dedicated to providing students and faculty with the latest research training, support, tools and resources for journalists.

The Research Center also acts as a News Research Desk for Students and Faculty at the Newmark J- School. Barbara Gray (Chief Librarian and Former Director of News Research at the New York Times) and Tinamarie Vella (Library Manager) are available in person or via email to help with your research questions on deadline. There are also coaches available for research assistance.

The Research Center collaborates with news research pros from the New York Times, Time

Magazine, and ProPublica, to teach students research methods for reporting as part of the Newmark J- School’s core Craft of Journalism classes. Research sessions include: Finding People, Beyond Google: Advanced Web Searching, and Social Media Research for Reporting.

Our website has a trove of research guides and tipsheets, like Backgrounding People and Businesses, Court Records Research for Reporters, How To Research Your NYC Community District and Mining Census Data for Reporting.

The Research Center features a collection of over 2,000 print volumes and 40,000+ electronic books. Students, faculty and staff have access to over 4 million items via CUNY’s Open Access Policy. The Research Center offers faculty, staff and students services such as interlibrary loan and reserves.

Through the generosity of several donors, the Research Center has developed a robust print collection of historical works about the field, outstanding journalists, notable media families and corporations. Other subject tracts include literary works by and about journalists, trends and issues in the profession, national organizations in the field, as well as works about New York City.

Students can also use the resources on-campus at any of the CUNY libraries. A current validated Newmark Graduate School of Journalism ID card, with a library patron barcode from our campus serves as the library card. For additional information regarding our hours and schedule, access and borrowing privileges and code of conduct, please view the links below:

Access and Borrowing Privileges - http://researchguides.journalism.cuny.edu/faq/accessborrowing Code of Conduct - http://researchguides.journalism.cuny.edu/faq/codeofconduct

Learn more here, https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/current-students/research-center/