GETTING PUBLISHED

📢 Introducing The Cooper Square 📢

I have some exciting news! Over the past few months, Professor Donna Borak and I have been working with an incredible group of undergraduate students to reimagine and ultimately re-launch the Institute’s internal news publication Cooper Squared. We’ve been thinking through all kinds of questions, but mainly: What is our core mission? What stories will we publish? And how can we best serve our students?

Enter The Cooper Square. Our mission is to collaborate and work with students at various stages of reporting and career development to become published journalists prior to graduation.

We will be working on a new look and feel. (Stay tuned for updates.) And don’t worry, stories already published on Cooper Squared will remain. But we want to take this opportunity to create a strong editorial process to really elevate our best student work.

With that, I’d like to introduce our masthead:

Editorial Director: Whitney Dangerfield, Publications Director at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Executive Editor: Donna Borak, Professor, NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Managing Editors: Lucy Levinson (CAS ‘26, Journalism and French) and Maya Santiago (CAS ‘27, Sociology and Journalism)

Homepage Editors: Avalon Blumenthal (Tisch and CAS ‘27, Dramatic Writing and Journalism) and Meghan Mandra (CAS‘26, Art History and Journalism)

Story Editors: Dominic Cappuccino (CAS ‘27, Comparative Literature and Spanish), Jasmine Deonandan (CAS ‘26, Politics and Journalism), Cara Gepilano (CAS ‘25, International Relations and Journalism), Sophie McDougall (CAS and Steinhardt ‘26, Media, Culture, & Communications, and Journalism), and Farhana Sabeeha (CAS ‘26, Journalism and International Relations)

Multimedia Editor: Brewer Roberts (TISCH and CAS ‘26 Journalism and Photography)

Now, what are we looking for, and how can you pitch us?

We want to publish high-quality news stories and features that have a minimum of three credible sources. Stories may originate from a journalism course or can be pursued individually with the goal of publishing. All stories will go through our editorial process.

Our Editors adhere to strong editorial standards. Stories should strive to meet various levels of newsworthiness: timeliness, scope, and impact. Outside of digital stories, our Editors also welcome students pitching drafts of their audio and video projects for consideration.

Please review our pitch guidelines: How to Pitch The Cooper Square

And when you’re ready, pitch us!

For stories that originated in a class, use this form: The Cooper Square Pitch Form: Drafts

Have a potential story idea that you'd like to discuss with one of our Story Editors? Then use this form: The Cooper Square Pitch Form: Ideas

Again, The Cooper Square is evolving, and we will keep you posted about our stories and the changes we’re implementing.

You can reach us at coopersquare@nyu.edu.

Upcoming Panels

How to Freelance Successfully

Oct. 21, 6pm, 20 Cooper Square, 7th FL Commons
Join Georgia Gee, whose investigative work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Wired, and more; Alyson Krueger, who writes regularly for The New York Times; and Jacob Kushner, whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, and more, to talk about the freelance life. RSVP

Urgency, Uncertainty and Alarmism: Ethical Climate Coverage

Oct. 23, 1pm, 20 Cooper Square, 7th FL Commons
Join Emily Atkin, author and founder of HEATED; David Sassoon, founder and publisher of Inside Climate News; and Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter on the New York Times climate team. RSVP

What Editors Wish Freelancers Knew

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 20 Cooper Square, 7th FL Commons
Join Kelly Conniff, Head of Creative at Time Studios; Justin Miller, the deputy editor of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer; and Marie Solis, an editor at the Styles section of The New York Times to talk about makes for a good pitch, and how freelance writers can best work with them. RSVP

When: Thursdays, 3:30p-4:30p
Where: 20 Cooper Square, Rm 600

Calls for Pitches

queerbeat: Editor looking for queer pop culture stories from reviews, to interviews, to features.
The Deadlands: Open for submissions of critical, academic, and personal essays on all things death.
Family Style: Seeking timely personal essays and written-through features on culture, design, and fashion for their October–November commissioning window.
The Markup: Looking for story pitches on how misinformation impacts immigrant communities, especially non-native English speakers.
The Common: Open submissions of fiction, nonfiction, translations, and poetry that embody a strong sense of place. Pitch here.
Slate: An editor is accepting pitches for features and essays through December.
The New York Times: Editor is seeking pitches for its real estate coverage, especially for the Calculator, Living In, and interior trends sections.

Opportunities with NYU Pubs

NYU Local: To pitch, write an email to nyulocaleditor@gmail.com. If you'd like to apply as a staff writer or creator, fill out this form.
West 10th, NYU's Creative Writing Literary Journal: Looking for people to apply to editorial board.
The Greene Street Review, NYU English Department’s cultural criticism magazine: Looking for submissions. Email greenestreetreview@nyu.edu. Due 10/19.

Publication Shout-Outs

Thanks for reading!
-Whitney Dangerfield, Publications Director

If you have ideas for the newsletter, let me know!
Email: whitney.dangerfield@nyu.edu
Website: Getting Published

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GETTING PUBLISHED

📢 Introducing The Cooper Square 📢

Upcoming Panels

How to Freelance Successfully

Urgency, Uncertainty and Alarmism: Ethical Climate Coverage

What Editors Wish Freelancers Knew

Calls for Pitches

Opportunities with NYU Pubs

Publication Shout-Outs

Haile Selassie's Band of Armenian Orphans

The AI Slur ‘Clanker’ Has Become a Cover for Racist TikTok Skits

S cience teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

UNGA80 Coverage

Thanks for reading!
-Whitney Dangerfield, Publications Director

If you have ideas for the newsletter, let me know!
Email: whitney.dangerfield@nyu.edu
Website: Getting Published

GETTING PUBLISHED

📢 Introducing The Cooper Square 📢

Upcoming Panels

How to Freelance Successfully

Urgency, Uncertainty and Alarmism: Ethical Climate Coverage

What Editors Wish Freelancers Knew

Calls for Pitches

Opportunities with NYU Pubs

Publication Shout-Outs

Haile Selassie's Band of Armenian Orphans

The AI Slur ‘Clanker’ Has Become a Cover for Racist TikTok Skits

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

UNGA80 Coverage

Thanks for reading! -Whitney Dangerfield, Publications DirectorIf you have ideas for the newsletter, let me know!Email: whitney.dangerfield@nyu.eduWebsite: Getting Published

S cience teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

Thanks for reading!
-Whitney Dangerfield, Publications Director

If you have ideas for the newsletter, let me know!
Email: whitney.dangerfield@nyu.edu
Website: Getting Published