The Story Behind the Story: The Yellow School Bus Goes Green

The Story Behind the Story: The Yellow School Bus Goes Green

In this feature, I go back to stories I’ve reported for NBC NY and explain how we got them on the air. When I hear that my next assignment is... Read More

Jewish Book Council “Meet the Author”

Jewish Book Council “Meet the Author”

This speech was delivered at the Jewish Book Council “Meet the Author” event on May 25, 2022: As a TV news reporter at NBC in New York, I meet people... Read More

Raising The Bar

Raising The Bar

It’s happened a couple of times now: a local dad has approached me around town to tell me that his daughter is going to break my high jump record. Most... Read More

5 Steps To Being A Better Mentor

5 Steps To Being A Better Mentor

One of my favorite parts of my job as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Journalism happens after the semester is over-- coaching my former students as they launch their journalism... Read More

How I Learned to Love Winter

How I Learned to Love Winter

Walking my dog Rocket Sunday night as the snow softly fell in our neighborhood, I thought to myself: I love everything about this. The quiet, the beauty, even the bracing... Read More

Get a Little Lost

Get a Little Lost

One of the skills I have developed during my 20 years as a news reporter is the ability to not panic when I get lost. Each day we go out... Read More

Teaching the Next Generation

Teaching the Next Generation

When I was 21 years old, Congressman John Lewis granted me an interview for my senior honors thesis at Columbia. He was interested in my research on how Majority Black... Read More

JWI’s 2017 Women to Watch Awards – Jen Maxfield Ostfeld

JWI’s 2017 Women to Watch Awards – Jen Maxfield Ostfeld

Pearls of Wisdom Speech delivered in December 2017 upon accepting the “Jewish Women to Watch” award in Washington, DC As a local news reporter for the last 17 years, I... Read More

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