The NYC Sentinel is an online newspaper, focusing on New York City, produced by students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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Staff
Spencer Bailey is a freelance journalist studying at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Most recently, he was an editorial intern at Esquire. He has also interned at Tar Mag and Paper Magazine; Emap, the U.K.’s second-largest magazine publisher; HarperCollins Publishers; and Queen Literary Agency. Bailey received a bachelor’s degree in English from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., where he worked as an editorial assistant at Dickinson Magazine. He lives in New York City.
Amy Brittain launched her journalistic endeavors as a 12-year-old reporter for a middle school newspaper in Shreveport, La. Now 22, she has since interned at MLB.com in San Diego, The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, The Christian Science Monitor in Boston and the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C. She has also freelanced for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and appeared on ESPN SportsCenter and College Football Live as a phone-in guest. Brittain graduated in May 2009 with a B.A. in mass communication from Louisiana State University.
Lynsey Chutel is a graduate of the University of Johannesburg and Rhodes University, where she majored in politics, journalism and philosophy, and is to complete an M.A. in international relations from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010. She has also interned at the South African Institute of International Affairs and various media organizations. Chutel hopes that a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University will catapult her into an adventurous career. She was born in Johannesburg and currently lives in New York City.
Artis Henderson is a print-media student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She also writes a weekly relationship column, “Sandy Days, Salty Nights,” for which she won the Florida Press Association’s Best Humor Column award. At the University of Pennsylvania, Henderson received both a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in international studies from the College of Arts and Sciences. Following Columbia, she plans to work as a foreign correspondent. Her work is available at artishenderson.com.
Alexander Hotz was born in Durban, South Africa, but he’s called the United States home since 1995. After graduating from Muhlenberg College with degrees in political science and history, he worked for a year in Costa Rica, teaching English in an indigenous community. His experience in journalism includes work for a documentary production company, a New Jersey community weekly and three NPR affiliates. Most recently he filed stories for KFSK, a public radio station in Petersburg, Alaska. He hopes to cover the greatest sport on earth – American politics.
Sujay Kumar grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Bartlett, Ill., and spent many summers in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in biochemistry and an emphasis in journalism. Kumar was a columnist for The Daily Illini and was named the U.S. News and World Report Paper Trail Blog’s Columnist of the Year. He lives in New York City and attends Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Michael Martin was born in Glendale, Calif., in 1987. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied East Asian studies, political science and French. Currently attending Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he is the first in his family to get a college degree. He has interned and contributed to several publications in China, including Women of China and 21st Century Business Herald. In the U.S., Martin has written for Asians in America, ALTRA Magazine and the Arab American News.
Radhika Marya is an Indian-American journalist who grew up in the United Arab Emirates and New Jersey. After graduating from Rutgers University in 2007 with an English degree and two years’ experience at the campus daily, she worked in book publishing and the weekly newspaper business. When she’s not busy reporting and studying digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Marya enjoys playing her guitar and geeking out over outdated ‘90s sci-fi television and Britpop. She likes to believe she’ll write an award-winning sitcom someday.
Wadzanai Mhute was born in Zimbabwe. Her articles and stories have been published in Afrique, Farafina, MethodX, MIMI Magazine, Per Contra, the Philadelphia City Paper and Philadelphia Weekly. She has also been published in three books, “Journeys Home: An anthology of contemporary African Diasporic experience” (Africa World Press, 2009), “One World: A global anthology of short stories” (New Internationalist, 2009) and “Women Writing Zimbabwe” (Weaver Press, 2008). Mhute is the recipient of the Leeway Art and Change Grant. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Clare O’Connor hails from the island of Bermuda. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked as an editor for the college’s arts and entertainment magazine, 34th Street. She also interned at Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia Magazine. After graduating she moved to London, where she traveled around the U.K. and contributed to guide books produced by MTV and Frommer’s called MTV Ireland and MTV Europe. O’Connor then worked at the international publishing house Haymarket, reporting on lobbying, communications and the media for PR Week. In 2008, her story on U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown cold-calling members of the public in a bid to save his reputation was shortlisted for the Press Gazette’s “Scoop of the Year.” She has also worked for The Royal Gazette and The Mid-Ocean News in Bermuda.
Mahawish Rezvi is a journalist from Pakistan currently studying at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Raised and educated in Hong Kong, Pakistan, Austria and the United States, she has been working in Pakistan’s broadcast-media industry for the past two and half years, with Geo News Television Network and Dawn News. Most recently, she was the associate producer for “NewsEye with Saima Mohsin” in Karachi.
Ruth Schneider has been writing and editing for more than 15 years, most recently a weekly column on GLBT issues, OUTspoken, for The Olympian in Olympia, Wash. She has also been published in and worked for The Vallejo Times-Herald, The Good Times, The Register-Pajaronian, The Student Guide and The Fish Rap Live! Schneider is a 2001 graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, but is not particularly fond of banana slugs. She currently attends Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Marlow Stern was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1984, and grew up in the small town of Bronxville, N.Y. He studied at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and went on to work in the editorial department at Blender Magazine before entering the world of film in the marketing department of New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Time Warner. He has been an editor at Amplifier Magazine and, since 2007, Manhattan Movie Magazine. Stern lives in Manhattan and attends Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Paulina Villegas was born in Mexico City. She completed her undergraduate studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey University with a major in media studies. She also attended l´Institut d´Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France, for a one-year exchange program. Villegas has been a reporter and editor of Trece:Veinte, an Indigo Brainmedia multimedia magazine that focuses on art, music and social issues; later, she contributed to the political publication Reporte Indigo. She currently attends Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Alexandra Waldhorn is an American-Norwegian journalist who grew up in San Francisco. She received a B.A. in Latin American history from San Francisco State University (SFSU) and studied abroad in Buenos Aires and Paris. As a managing editor of the SFSU Urban Action Journal, she combined her passion for storytelling and strong curiosity for how cities work to explore ideas on how they can be ecologically and socially healthier. After graduation, she specialized in African media development and press freedom for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers in Paris as editor of the African Press Network. Waldhorn also helped develop Newspaper in Education programs worldwide. She currently resides in New York City and attends Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Jeremy B. White is a student in the newspaper concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He graduated with an English degree in May 2009 from Tufts University, where he worked for the news department of the college’s newspaper, Tufts Daily. He has also interned at Roll Call, the Cambridge Chronicle and Voice of America. White grew up in Bethesda, Md., and has lived in London, Paris and Ghana.
