This grant continues support of the Tow Professorships at the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (Newmark J-School). Since 2014, the Tow Professorships have supported the projects of two outstanding faculty members for a period of two years each. This cycle, the awarded professors are Lisa Armstrong and Graciela Mochkofsky, whose significant contributions to the Newmark J-School and the journalistic field at large embody the values of The Tow Foundation. Ms. Armstrong is an award-winning innovator in the coverage of incarceration issues as well as Haiti, and has been a faculty member at Newmark J-School for the past eight years. Ms. Mochkosky joined the faulty in 2016 as its first director of the new Spanish- language journalism program, which she helped design.
