About
Mission
Our mission is to provide students in Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism a platform to publish enterprise and investigative journalism and communications research to enhance their abilities and professionalism in the media landscape. These stories and research serve the Long Island community and its media outlets by covering important timely issues, deconstructing complicated narratives of institutions, and exploring potential solutions.
We hope to offer a platform for students that fosters engagement in news and community needs.
Who we are
This website is administered by the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York.
The writers are undergraduate and graduate students in upper division courses, including the senior capstone course, and other special projects — facilitated by Irene Virag, associate dean and undergraduate program director, and faculty-designed curriculum.
The platform is edited by lecturer J.D. Allen with an assistance by Fatima Sowid, the school’s interim communication director.
It is important for emerging journalists to gain experience in producing verifiable, independent and accountable work.
Our advisors
- School of Communication and Journalism faculty, students, and alumni board
- The Building a Better Communication and Journalism advisory board
- Laura Lindenfeld, dean of the School of Communication and Journalism, executive director of the Alda Center for Communicating Science, professor of journalism
Submissions
Please use THIS FORM to submit to the Stony Brook Media Showcase for publication. This form is intended for the School’s faculty, students and staff only.
Below are some general guidelines:
- Submission is not a guarantee of publication.
- Each submission must be signed off on by a professor before it is submitted.
- All stories must be written in Associated Press style (or MLA, APA, Chicago, etc., for research), and copy edited to ensure proper grammar.
- All reporting/research and copy must be the student’s original work, including all quotes.
- All of the names of participating students must be included.
- All submissions must include images, however the editor may choose to use a limited amount of stock imagery.
Stories will be placed in a section that makes the most sense for featuring their work.
- STORIES are typically singular works of journalism, which include written and multimedia on the topic.
- SERIES include the works of one or multiple students on a single topic. These include several of the School’s Journalism Without Walls opportunities through the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting. Individual student stories may be curated together to form a series, as determined by the editor.
- STUDIES are typically singular works of communication, science communication and mass communication.