Magic Kenny, left, laughing with Kitty Katt McKinley at the 80th birthday party for longtime bartender Tom “Tiger” Zeigler. After 54 years of bartending for the Tap Room, at The Hotel Congress, Zeigler was surprised to learn that the saloon was renamed “Tiger’s Tap Room.”


During the Institute, students are working journalists supervised by reporters and editors from The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Opportunities for students include reporting, copy editing, photography, Web production, print and Web design, and video journalism. Institute graduates now work at major news organizations, including The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times itself, and dozens of midsize news organizations.