Sandeep Junnarkar

New York, New York

SANDEEP JUNNARKAR is an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (The City University of New York). He entered the online journalism world at its infancy in 1994 as part of a team gathered to present The New York Times on America Online, a service called @times. He later became a breaking news editor, writer and Web producer when the paper went live on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web. He served as a reporter and New York Bureau chief for News.com from 1998 to 2003.He received a Masters in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia in 1994. He completed his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Translating the network evening news to the Web
Q&A: OJR talks with ABC News' Jason Samuels about how news webcasts are creating new models for television reporting. - July 27, 2007

Reconceiving storytelling at the Associated Press
Q&A: Ted Anthony talks to OJR about how the AP is trying, through its asap portal, to meet the needs of readers who want to access information in different ways. - June 27, 2007

'Giving voice to the voiceless': How the Internet can fulfill public radio's mission
Q&A: Murrow Award-winner and Web pioneer Jay Allison talks with OJR about helping the public to use audio to tell its stories online. - May 21, 2007

Q&A: Jay Rosen and Assignment Zero
OJR's Sandeep Junnarkar talks with NYU Web-journalism bellwether Jay Rosen about collaborative reporting on his NewAssignment.net project. - April 17, 2007

'Alive in Baghdad' uses Web to report the everyday dangers in Iraq
A film documentarian turns to the Internet to tells the stories of Iraqis struggling to stay alive in a war zone. - March 22, 2007

From New York to L.A... by way of Paris
In an audio interview, OJR talks with new latimes.com executive editor Meredith Artley about the challenges facing newspaper.coms. - February 20, 2007

Building a perfect storm of journalism and multimedia
OJR talks with Brian Storm about the business of audio-visual storytelling, including the auctioning of stories. - January 22, 2007

What's the future for news personalization?
OJR interviews Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine, about the status of "Daily Me" applications and how his site is using technology to involve readers more intimately with the news. - November 29, 2006

Meet the new face of hyperlocal journalism
A former NYT columnist explains how a local blog can challenge, and scoop, a local paper while making a business of small-town coverage. - October 29, 2006

Q&A with Travis Fox, video journalist for washingtonpost.com
Emmy-nominated video journalist explains what works on the Web and what doesn't and where he thinks the medium is headed - September 18, 2006

Convergence personified
Q&A: OJR's Sandeep Junnarkar interviews new media pioneer Angela Morgenstern about a career that's taken her from PBS to MTV. - August 13, 2006

Redefining freelancing with entrepreneurial Web journalism
A first-person account of attracting funding - and readers - to an independent online journalism project that involved in-depth reporting abroad. - December 15, 2005