in the classroom

As an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Markey teaches courses on reporting, media ethics, and the role of race and racism in shaping U.S. media. Her students learn to cover news in the neighborhoods and streets of the Bronx.

During the height of the COVID pandemic, her students collected oral histories of life under quarantine, contributing to a Covid in the Bronx Archive at the Bronx County Historical Society. She teaches her Reporting II class as an investigative workshop. In 2020, the class dug through hundreds of lawsuits filed against the City of New York and the NYPD alleging police misconduct. The investigation found the city was paying millions of dollars each year to settle lawsuits about officers accused over and over again of misconduct and abuse. The resulting piece was published in The Intercept. Other projects explored the relationship of Yankee Stadium to its neighbors (link to that) and documented the prevalence of toxic brownfields languishing for years in low-income communities even when the state designated them immediately hazardous. (link to that).

Previously she led college-credit journalism courses for high school students in Lehman’s College Now Summer Multimedia Arts Academy. Students learned to report on issues affecting their lives such as health justice, gang violence, policing, gentrification, and housing; at the end of each summer, they produce a news magazine.

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