After a search that weighed dozens of journalists and educators,[1] former BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen B. Shepard was chosen as the school's first dean.

[12] Dean Baquet, now executive editor of The New York Times, spoke at the school's first graduation ceremony in December 2007 and received an honorary degree.

[13] Veteran broadcast journalist and presidential aide Bill Moyers addressed students at the school's second graduation commencement ceremony a year later.

A Governance Council composed of full-time faculty, adjuncts, staff, students, and alumni meets once a semester to consider and vote on curriculum, policy, and standards.

[16] The campus building houses a newsroom with seats for 130, a broadcast studio, several multimedia editing suites, a fully digital library and research center with 1,500 books on journalism, as well as numerous classrooms.

[22] In addition, students contribute stories to the Bronx-based neighborhood news outlets Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express.

A native of Argentina, Graciela Mochkofsky joined the Newmark J-School in 2016 to launch the nation's first bilingual master's journalism concentration in English and Spanish.

She has written for The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, and authored books covering the relationship between press and political power in Argentina.