It’s Graciela Mochkofsky’s first week on the job and she already has a full to-do list.The Argentinian journalist has been named director of the new Spanish-language journalism initiative at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY).

The program, which was announced in September 2015, will “train bilingual journalists who want to serve the Hispanic media market in the U.S. or in their home countries.” It will be part of the school’s MA in Journalism.Graciela Mochkofsky (Courtesy photo/Daniel Mordzinski)

Mochkofsky has a busy schedule ahead. Her first tasks are forming guidelines and criteria for the application process, drafting a curriculum, finding professors and looking for ways to fundraise for the program and for scholarships so that the school can attract the best candidates and applicants.“There is a clear and urgent need here in the U.S. for a graduate school to train Spanish-language journalists, and bilingual journalists, to serve the growing (in numbers but also in cultural and political influence) Hispanic community and a global Spanish-language community,” Mochkofsky said to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “And also, to prepare new generations of Spanish-language journalists to come up with new ideas about the future of the Hispanic media here in the U.S. and elsewhere.”

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