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You believe that knowledge is power. Columbia doesn’t just teach students what they You are curious, open-minded, and like to don’t know—it discovers and creates knowledge write. You seek a life that is fast-paced and for our changing world. Columbia journalists learn how to uncover, analyze, and explain the stories exciting. Your passion about the world and of our time—and to create the first draft of history. commitment to the truth have given you the determination to make a difference At Columbia and in the kaleidoscopic metropolis that is New York City, you truly become a citizen and raise awareness of what’s happening of the world—with friends and connections on around the world each day. If journalism is campus, across the city, and around the globe. your calling, answer it at Columbia. • Philadelphia Media • The Nation Media Group Where our grads get jobs Network • The New York Times • Phoenix New Times • The Trace • ABC News • Cynematic Productions • KCWY 13 – Casper, Wyo. • Phoenix TV • The Wall Street Journal • ABC World News Tonight • Debtwire • Klassekampen • Pitchfork • The Walrus (magazine) • Al Jazeera English • DeSmog United Kingdom • KPCC – Pasadena, Calif. • Primedia Broadcasting • Thinx • Alaska Dispatch News • Diverse Issues in • La Stampa • ProPublica • Time Inc. • American Lawyer Higher Education • Law360 • Quartz • University of Oxford • ANC News • Dow Jones • Los Angeles Times • Racked / Vox Media • Univision • Associated Press • Elle Magazine • Marketplace • Reporters Committee for • USA Today Freedom of the Press • Atlas Obscura • ESPN • McClatchy • VICE News • Thomson Reuters • BBC • Facebook • Men’s Health • Vice News France • Royal Media • Bloomberg News • Feature Story News • The Miami Herald • Vice News on HBO • Scholastic / The New • Brightwire • First Draft and El Nuevo Herald York Times • Vice News Tonight • Buffalo News • Forbes • Miami New Times on HBO • Science Po • Bustle.com • GateHouse Media • Microsoft • Vocativ • Science Times • Buyouts Insider • Global Press Institute • Morgan Stanley • Voice of America • Shanghai Media Group • BuzzFeed News • Great Big Story • Naples Daily News • Vox Media • Singapore Press Holdings • CBS • Grupo Clarin • National Geographic • The Wall Street Journal • Stylecaster • Columbia • The Guardian Nigeria • NBC • Washingtonian Magazine • Surface Magazine Journalism Review • The Harlem Times • New York Law Journal • Waterbury • Telemundo • CNN • HBO Real Sports • New York Times Republican-American • The Atlantic • CNN en Español • Hearst Newspapers Journalism Institute • WBOC – Salisbury, Md. • The Berkshire Eagle • CNN Investigations • The Hechinger Report • News Literacy Project • WBUR - Boston • The Big Roundtable • CNNMoney • HFI Absolute Return • WSAV NEWS 3 – • WCIA – Champaign, Ill. Savannah, Ga. • The Forward • Columbia • The Houston Press • WDBJ7 – Roanoke, Va. • Nikkei America • The Globe and Mail Journalism School • Huffington Post • WPDE-TV– Myrtle • NowThis • The John F. Kennedy Beach, S.C. • Columbia Graduate School • Independent Center for the of Arts and Sciences Journal Review • NYU • WisconsinWatch Performing Arts • Condé Nast • Jiemian • Open Society Foundations • WNYC • The Marshall Project • Golf Digest • OZY
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Our Career Services staff—all former journalists with strong industry connections in print, broadcast, and digital media— work closely with you to help you pursue the most meaning- ful jobs and internships in the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, as an alumnus, you’ll have access to our extensive alumni network of unparalleled contacts in all areas of journalism. of MA and MS graduates (excluding the Knight-Bagehot Fellows) begin internships, full-time and part-time jobs, continue in another academic degree journalism.columbia.edu/careers 73% program, freelance or launch a media company following graduation. Academic programs journalism.columbia.edu/programs No matter who you are, what you want to cover, or how you want to report on it, one of Columbia Journalism School’s carefully designed academic programs will take you anywhere you want to go.
MASTER OF SCIENCE MASTER OF SCIENCE MASTER OF SCIENCE MASTER OF ARTS DOCTOR OF IN DATA JOURNALISM IN COMPUTER PHILOSOPHY IN Hands-on training across SCIENCE AND Designed for journalists COMMUNICATIONS all media platforms NEW degree program JOURNALISM with 3-15 years of profes- beginning 2018! sional experience Study the relationships Interview-based reporting Collaboration between the between people and the modules focusing on Appropriate for current Engineering and Journal- Equips students with sub- media deadline writing to data vi- and aspiring journalists ism schools ject-area expertise sualization and from digital who want to use data Craft a multidisciplinary, media to broadcast skills and technology as a Highly-specialized training Provides an intellectual individualized course of tool to complement in the digital environment grounding in your field to study in the humanities, Appropriate for graduating journalistic skills including computer-sup- be able to produce sophis- the social sciences, and undergraduate students, ported news gathering and ticated, nuanced stories the arts career changers, and Equips students with a digital media production current journalists seeking toolkit to collect, process Concentrations available Prepare for a career teach- additional training or to and analyze data to find Applicants must have a in Arts & Culture, Business ing in higher education, learn new platforms relevant stories across all background in computer & Economics, Politics & conducting research, or fields and platforms science, math, or engineer- Global Affairs, or Science, carrying out policy work in Specializations available in ing, have excellent writing Environment & Medicine government or industry investigative reporting and Emphasis on innovation, skills, and be familiar with documentary filmmaking teamwork and collabora- fundamentals of reporting 9 months (full-time only) Typically complete your tion with a global mindset degree in 5-7 years Dual degree programs in 4 semesters Law, Business, Religion Only academic institution and International and with publishing partner- Public Affairs ships with journalism networks in the U.S. and International degree overseas programs with Sciences Po in Paris and University 3 semesters (full-time only) of Witwatersrand in Johan- nesburg
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M.A. or M.S.? Which program is right for you?
MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM
The prestigious, nine-month Master of Arts program is for people The M.S. program is the cornerstone of the Journalism School. It who can demonstrate proficiency in the essential skills of journalism: offers aspiring and experienced journalists the opportunity to study effective reporting and clear writing. Unlike the Master of Science the skills, the art and the ethics of journalism by reporting and writing program, which focuses on teaching reporting and writing, the M.A. stories ranging from short news pieces to complex narrative features. is designed for experienced journalists who are eager to immerse Students acquire a core set of sophisticated newsgathering skills that themselves in a specific area of study and to be mentored by will emphasize in-person, interview-based reporting as well as other journalists who are the among the most accomplished in the world. means of acquiring and assessing information. Coursework focuses on Successful applicants usually have between three and fifteen years topics ranging from deadline newswriting to interactive graphics, from of professional journalism experience. multimedia to video and data skills. Life at Columbia
FACULTY STUDENTS
Learn from award-winning Our students get published journalists by media outlets in NYC and beyond Faculty hold specializations in dozens of areas Nearly all our students graduate with a portfolio of clips Average class size: 16 students Paid, post-graduate Receive one-on-one mentoring international fellowships Meet our faculty: journalism. and grants available columbia.edu/faculty See the work our students produce: journalism.columbia. edu/student-work
BROWN INSTITUTE TOW CENTER DART CENTER
Thanks to the largest gift in its history, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism offers The Dart Center for Journalism and Columbia Journalism School’s historic students the skills, experience, and knowl- Trauma, dedicated to informed, innovative, Pulitzer Hall became the home of the edge to become leaders in digital journalism and ethical news reporting on violence, groundbreaking and bicoastal David and and also serves as a research and develop- conflict, and tragedy, provides training Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media ment center for the profession as a whole. and resources for journalists and news Innovation in 2014. Working with Stanford The Center explores how the development organizations worldwide. The Dart Center University’s Engineering School, the goal is of technology is changing journalism, its offers fellowships to distinguished mid- to encourage and support new endeavors practice and its consumption—particularly career journalists and provides a forum to in media innovation using competitive as consumers of news seek ways to judge analyze issues and share knowledge on grants to seed promising projects. The the reliability, standards, and credibility of reporting violence and tragedy. The annual Brown Institute, with its high tech newsroom, information. It also devises and publicizes Dart Awards recognize exemplary reporting cultivates working relationships with top innovative methods of digital reporting and on the impact of violence, crime, disaster, business leaders and media companies. presentation of both established media and other traumatic events. dartcenter.org brown.columbia.edu companies and new startups. towcenter.org journalism.columbia.edu/admissions By the numbers Admission & financial aid
TOTAL ANTICIPATED DEMOGRAPHICS (FULL-TIME) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT International...... 44% DATA DUAL 2017-2018 Female...... 72% MS DEGREE CS/JRN MA PHD Male...... 28% APPLICATION FEE ● ● ● ● ●
TRANSCRIPTS ● ● ● ● ● AMONG AMERICAN STUDENTS 200 Black/African American...... 10% 3 RECOMMENDATIONS ● ● ● ● ● Master of Science (full-time) Asian...... 7% WRITING TEST ● ● ●
Hispanic/Latino...... 5% TOEFL/IELTS SCORE * ● ● ● ● ● Whites...... 37% RESUME ● ● ● ● ● Other...... 19% Unreported...... 22% JOURNALISTIC SAMPLES ● ● ● ● 33 ACADEMIC SAMPLE ● Master of Science (part-time) GRE ● ● COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
The Columbia Journalism School is ESSAYS committed to creating and supporting AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ● ● ● ● ● a community that is diverse in every 10 way. We offer a curriculum as pluralis- PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS ● ● ● ● Master of Science Dual Degree tic and polyphonic as New York itself, SPECIALIZATION ** ● ● with Computer Science and a community of scholars who PROGRAM INTERESTS ● embody this commitment to open dis- ACADEMIC INTERESTS ● cussion and debate. Diversity is one of the things that makes the Journalism * INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS School vibrant and exciting, and our ** IF APPLICABLE 50 students find a setting that allows Master of Arts them to explore diversity in a variety of ways, at a university that prides itself on serious intellectual inquiry and the exploration of diverse ideas. This is WHERE TO APPLY the transformative power of diversity journalism.columbia.edu 4 in education: its ability to enrich the Doctor of Philosophy individual as it enriches the community and society as a whole. Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway (at 116 Street) New York, NY 10027 Admissions Office 212-854-8608 [email protected] Countries represented @columbiajourn 2017–2018
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On the front: This stained glass window is a relic of Pulitzer’s World Building. It now adorns Columbia Journalism School’s World Room where the Pulitzer Prizes are announced each year.