YJI’s 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
In 2001, Steven and Cynthia Brill made a generous donation to launch the Yale Journalism Initiative, which has since benefited from the support of Bob Woodward, Elsa Walsh, Bradley Graham, and Lissa Muscatine. Over the past 25 years, YJI has empowered hundreds of Yale students to become journalists.
To celebrate this milestone, on March 28th, 2026, we hosted an afternoon of panel disucssions with our esteemed alumni.
Steven Brill ’72, ’75 JD, Founder, Yale Journalism Initiative moderates a panel on “Political Reporting in an Age of Peak Polarization” with Isaac Arnsdorf ’11, Senior White House Reporter, The Washington Post; Elaina Plott Calabro ’15, Staff Writer, The Atlantic; and Elise Jordan ’04, Host, MS Now’s The Weekend: Primetime
Susan Dominus ’92, Professor, ENGLISH 4460, Staff Writer, The New York Times Magazine moderates a panel on Narrative Journalism with Ava Kofman ’14, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Martine Powers ’11, Audio Journalist, Former Host of The Washington Post’s “Post Reports”; Aliyya Swaby ’13, Reporter, ProbPublica’s South Unit; and Vivian Yee ’12, National Correspondent, The New York Times.
Jill Abramson, Leader of the Burnes Center’s Initiative on Investigative Solutions Journalism,Former Executive Editor of The New York Times, Former Professor, ENGLISH 4460 moderates a conversation on the Art of Editing with Alexandra Suich Bass ’08, Culture Editor, The Economist; Sophie Haigney ’17, Web Editor, The Paris Review; Adrian J. Rivera ’20, Op–Ed Editorial Assistant, The New York Times; and Amy X. Wang ’15, Story Editor, The New York Times Magazine
