Curtis Brodner ’19 Joins Columbia Journalism Investigations for 2024–2025
The CJI Fellowships are exclusive paid opportunities offered to recent graduates of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
CJI Fellows will engage in full-time investigative reporting across multiple teams. Brodner joins the investigative team where he’ll work “with experienced reporters and editors to produce accountability-focused stories on urgent matters of public interest in the U.S.”
An investigative reporter based in New York City, Brodner has reported on labor, housing, and policing issues. Before joining CJI, Brodner was a metro news reporter for 1010 WINS. He also ran a volunteer news organization called Protest_NYC that covered the 2020 protests against police violence, an effort that earned the Richard & Marylee Salomon Fund for Journalists Award in 2020.
Brodner graduated from Columbia in 2024, earning a Master’s of Science with specialized training from their Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
At Purchase Brodner reported for the Purchase Phoenix and won the Deckinger Investigative Story Prize and the Peter Keller Journalism Award.