FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY are pleased to announce that Shantal Riley has been selected as the latest candidate for a yearlong enterprise journalism fellowship launched with funding from The Tow Foundation.

Riley, a 2019 graduate of the Newmark J-School, started this week, working alongside FRONTLINE’s dedicated cadre of reporters, producers and digital makers. She will contribute reporting across platforms — from the documentary and podcast series, to transmedia projects combining text and visual elements, including video, photography and graphics.

“We are so pleased to continue our enterprise journalism fellowship with the Newmark J-School and thrilled to have Shantal join our reporting ranks,” said Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s executive producer. “We are grateful to The Tow Foundation for their ongoing support and for their commitment to strengthening our investigative journalism.”

“Shantal has the drive and passion that is core to the great journalism produced by FRONTLINE,” said Sarah Bartlett, dean of the J-School. “We are excited for her to have this opportunity and grateful to FRONTLINE and the Tows for forging this partnership.” 

At the J-School, based in New York City, Riley focused on health and science reporting. She previously worked as a reporter for the Poughkeepsie Journal and the Mid Hudson Times in Newburgh, New York. Her stories on economic development and homelessness in Newburgh won awards from the New York Press Association; and her investigation into the city’s zombie-foreclosure crisis was recognized by the National Newspaper Association.

Her work has also been featured in City Limits, Nova NEXT and Vice.

Riley, who is from Montréal, Canada, also holds a bachelor’s degree from Marist College, where she majored in journalism and digital media.

 

About FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. The series has won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 89 Emmy Awards and 20 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, and Google+ to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, The John and Helen Glessner Family Trust, Wyncote Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.

 

 About The Tow Foundation

The Tow Foundation, established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow, funds projects that offer transformative experiences to individuals and create collaborative ventures in fields where they see opportunities for breakthroughs, reform, and benefits for underserved populations. Investments focus on the support of innovative programs and system reform in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, medicine, higher education, and culture. For more information, visit http://www.towfoundation.org.

 

About the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, founded in 2006, is the only public graduate journalism school in the northeastern U.S. With affordable tuition and extensive scholarship support, it prepares students from diverse economic, racial and cultural backgrounds to produce high-quality journalism. The school offers three master’s degree programs: a Master of Arts in Journalism, an M.A. in Entrepreneurial Journalism and an M.A. in Social Journalism. In Fall 2016, it launched a unique Spanish-language program to train bilingual students interested in covering Latino and Hispanic communities in the U.S. and abroad. For more information, visit https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/.