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master ofarts
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The M.A. program is for experiencedjournalists who arent satisfied
merely by competency. Theywant to go deeper, to navigatecomplicated terrain and to cover itin a sophisticated, nuanced manner.Students emerge with the subject-matter grounding that enables them
to situate news events in theirlarger context, to ask more informedquestions, and to authoritativelyevaluate claims made by sources.
Which program is right
MASTER OF ARTS PROGRA
The prestigious, nine-month M
program, inaugurated in 2005
who can demonstrate profcie
essential skills o journalism:
reporting and clear writing. Un
Master o Science program, won teaching basic reporting an
the M.A. is designed or exper
journalists who are eager to im
themselves in a specifc area o
to be mentored by journalists
among the most accomplished
Successul applicants usually
three and fteen years o pro
journalism experience.
M.A. or M.S
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Choose your path.Applicants choose one o our concentrat
during the application process:
The M.A. program is built around four concentrations: arts and culture, business and
economics; politics; and the Robert Wood Johnson Program in Health and Science Journ
Each concentration is overseen by two ull-time members o the Journalism School acul
who pull in subject-area experts rom Columbia and beyond, creating seminars that mar
deep subject knowledge with journalism. These courses include heavy reading, case stu
feld trips, journalistic assignments, and other exercises. Regardless o concentration, ev
M.A. student takes three core M.A. classesEvidence and Inerence, The History o Ame
Journalism, and The Future o Journalism.
Each student also takes three electives outside the Journalism School.
Students may take virtually any course at the University that will deepen their subject
knowledge. Each student also completes a masters thesis, an ambitious reporting proje
that results in a written piece o 8,000 to 10,000 words, or its multimedia equivalent.
To educate new generations o
journalists and uphold standards
o journalistic excellence has
been the mission o the ColumbiaUniversity Graduate School o
Journalism since it opened a
century ago. The quality, vitality,
and innovation o our degree
programs remain unsurpassed,
providing the oundation or
students not only to succeed, but
to shape the uture o journalism.
Ten years ater Joseph Pulitzer
frst proposed a world-class
journalism school at Columbia,classes began on September 30,
1912. Seventy-nine undergraduate
and graduate students enrolled,
including a dozen women.
Classes convened at several
locations around campus until
the Journalism building opened in
1913, and in 1917 the frst Pulitzer
Prizes were awarded.
Learning theColumbia wa
Arts and Culture
Business and Economic
Science, Health andthe Environment
Politics
M.A.
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MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM
The M.S. program, which began in 1935,
is the cornerstone o the Journalism
School. It oers aspiring and experienced
journalists the opportunity to study the
skills, the art and the ethics o journalism
by reporting and writing stories ranging
rom short news pieces to complex narra-
tive eatures. Students acquire a core set
o sophisticated newsgathering skills thatwill emphasize in-person, interview-based
reporting as well as other means o ac-
quiring and assessing inormation. They
take courses rom each o three modules:
The Written Word; Images and Sound;
and Audience and Engagement, which
ocus on topics ranging rom deadline
newswriting to interactive graphics, rom
social media to video skills.
Explore sem
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PROFESSORS
Historical knowledge, analytical under-
standing, and nimble thinking across a
range o artistic disciplines and cultural
realms are the goals o the Arts and
Culture concentration.
Through a combination o extensive reading, case studies, site visits, and teaching
collaborations with scholars, artists, and other leaders in the arts, students consider the
ormal and emotional orce o the arts as well as the ways they unction as commodities
in a global marketplace. Students also learn about policy and economic issues: private
and public unding models, intellectual property law, and trade agreements. Students
develop the skills, analytical habits, and exibility to cover a wide range o stories, and
work on becoming cultural reporters and critics in the ullest sense.
Respected experts rom Columbia and elsewhere are oten brought in to guest-teach.
Recent guests have included Jane Ginsburg, an expert on intellectual property at
Columbia Law School; Frances Negron-Muntaner rom Columbias English department;
Andreas Huyssen, a comparative literature proessor and an expert on the Frankurt
School; Shakespearian James Shapiro; anthropology proessor Page West; and artdealer Louis Salerno.
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DAVID HAJDU
David Hajdu is the music critic or The New Republic.
He is a contributor to The Atlantic, The New Yorker,
The New York Review of Books, The New York Times
Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He is the author oLush
Life, Positively 4th Street, and Heroes and Villains,
all three o which were fnalists or the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and The Ten-Cent Plague, which
Amazon named the Best Book o the Year on the arts. Hajdu is a graduate o
New York University.
A IS A SO OM ON
Alisa Solomon came to Columbia rom Baruch
College-CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center,
where she taught in the English, journalism, and
theater programs. She contributes to The Nation,
The Forward, The New York Times, and other
publications, and to WNYC radio and the WBAI rad
program Beyond the Pale. She was on the sta at
The Village Voice or 21 years, covering theater and cultural issues, and
winning awards or her reporting on reproductive rights, electoral politics
womens sports, and immigration policy. Her book, Wonder of Wonders:
A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof, is due out in October 2013.
Arts andCulture
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The M.A. programwas an opportunitto take a deeper looat what we do as
journalists and howwe do it.
MASTER OF ARTS PROG
Jimm So
deputy Books toNewsweek/ The Daily Beast
m.a. arS and clr, 11
Doing the M.A. is like learning to swim. Id beenreporting or nearly 10 years, but I was only ailing
about. Every time I fnished a story, I was terrifed
o plunging in again. But when you work closely with
very good swimmersthe best in the worldyou
gain confdence. You tread longer, you dive deeper.
I youre not careul, you might even believe that you,
too, can someday be one o the best in the world.
Natasha Del Toro
feee/host o PBS pogae ree
m.S. 05; m.a. arS and clr, 06
I it werent or my time at Columbia, I wouldbe where I am today. The M.A. program bolst
my confdence in arts reporting and deepene
respect or journalism. Proessor Solomon gi
terrifc survey o dance, theater, art, music an
tecture. The most invaluable part o my expe
was my ellow classmates, many o whom are
working at the most respected media outlets
country, and the acultysome o the most r
ed journalists in the business.
Dorian Merinarepote/aofee Spee ro news
m.S. 07; m.a. arS and clr, 08
Evidence and Inerence
encouraged me to ask questions
about how a story is ramed,
what is included, and how new
technology is shaping news. It
also taught me research skills,
challenged and refned my
interviewing techniques, andgave me the tools to approach
specialized academic felds and
primary documents. One highlight
o the year was the courses I took
outside the J-school. One course,
in the Spanish Department,
helped me research and write
my thesis, which reported on a
19th-century revolutionary fgure in
the Philippines. I spent 2010-2011
on a Fulbright research year in
the Philippines, documenting oralpoetry rom a remote indigenous
group and am now back at FSRN.
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PROFESSORS
The primary objective o the Business
concentration is to impart simple, ast,
and eective ways to break down
complicated problems, locate relevant
data, and compensate or inherent biases.
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SYVIA NASAR
Sylvia Nasar is the James S. and John L. Knight
Proessor o Business Journalism. Her most recent
book, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
won the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in
the Science & Technology category. Her award-
winning biography,A Beautiful Mind, inspired the
movie directed by Ron Howard and the American
Experience documentary, A Brilliant Madness. Her New Yorkerarticle
Maniold Destiny, written with David Gruber, was honored in The Best
American Science Writing 2007. Trained as an economist, Nasar was a New
York Times correspondent rom 1991 to 1999, and beore that a sta writer
at Fortune and columnist at U.S. News & World Report.
JA ME S B. STE WAR T
James B. Stewart is the Bloomberg Proessor o
Business Journalism. He writes a fnancial column
in the Business Day section oThe New York Time
and is a ormer Page One editor at The Wall Stree
Journal and a regular contributor to The New York
and SmartMoney, which he helped launch. He is
the author o ten books, the most recent o which
Tangled Webs, published in spring 2011. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Priz
or Explanatory Journalism or his articles in The Wall Street Journal abou
the 1987 upheaval in the stock market. A lawyer by training, Stewart is a
graduate o DePauw University and Harvard Law School.
Business andEconomics
Popular OutsideCourses:
Accounting
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Mergers and Acquisition
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EmergingFinancial Markets
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The all term stresses three attributes o excellent economics reporting: a frm grasp o basic eco-
nomic theory and institutions; hands-on knowledge o data or measuring economic perormance
and assessing the validity o economic arguments; and the ability to fnd and report compelling
stories. The spring term provides students with the analytical skills to conceive and execute
stories about the business sector. Academic subjects are not taught in the abstract but in the
context o recent news. Students learn basic skills in accounting, corporate fnance, securities law,
securities analysis, and portolio management, but the course is frmly rooted in the journalistic
process. Respected experts rom Columbia and elsewhere are oten brought in to guest-teach.
Recent guest lecturers have included Stephen Grisky, vice chairman, General Motors; Eric
Schwartz, ormer co-head o Global Equities, Goldman Sachs; Thomas Schumacher, president,
Disney Theatrical Group and ormer co-head, Disney Animation; Karen Seymour, partner, Sullivan
& Cromwell, ormer chie o the criminal division, U.S. Attorneys ofce, Southern District o NewYork; and rom the Columbia aculty, Scott Hemphill, chie o the antitrust bureau, State o New
York, on leave rom Columbia Law School; and Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Proessor o
Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School.
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Professors Nasarand Stewart showeus how to interpreteconomic data tobecome our ownanalsts.
Jeff Horwitz
to, rsk mgeetAmerican Banker
m.a. BSinSS and cnmicS, 09
I let a reporting job covering ederal lobbying inWashington to attend the M.A. program in order to
rethink some o the choices Ive made under deadline
pressure. I also wanted to work with Proessors James
B. Stewart and Sylvia Nasar, who oer a kind o men-
toring that is all too rare or reporters in a newsroom.
Columbia taught me two skills that no investigative
or business reporter should be without: the ability to
read balance sheets and burrow into economic data.
Rafael Mathus Ruiz
new ok coespoetLa Nacion (aget)
m.a. BSinSS and cnmicS, 10
Beore joining the Business & Economics cotration o the M.A. program in 2009, I worked
a Financial and Economics reporter at La Nac
based in Buenos Aires. The J-school led to a t
point in my career, allowing me to become a
correspondent, my ultimate aspiration as a jo
at that time. But the most important thing o
is that it will always be the place where I met
riends, who today are among my closest rie
Miriam Gottfriedrepote, The Wall Street Journal
m.a. BSinSS and cnmicS, 09
Ater working in business
journalism or several years,
I was unsure about the value
o journalism school. But
when I learned about the M.A.
Business concentration, I saw
an opportunity to gain deeper
technical knowledge o thefnancial world, which I lacked
ater an undergraduate degree in
the humanities. I took accounting,
corporate fnance, and corporate
strategy classes at the Business
School and the School o
International and Public Aairs.
Proessors Nasar and Stewart
showed us how to interpret
economic data to become our own
analysts. The skills I learned have
unquestionably made me a morecritical and confdent reporter.
ALUM PROFILE
MASTER OF ARTS PROG
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PROFESSORS
M.A. Politics students study the
primary political systems andinstitutions that organize our
world and learn a series o tools
that journalists can use to analyze
political situations.
This concentration is appropriate or candidates who want to be oreign
correspondents, legal reporters, education reporters, city hall reporters,and political reporters. Across all o these domains, certain themes and
issues recur, and this course is thereore organized around eight such
themes: power; identity and nationalism; mobilization; collective action
and social conict; rights; institutions; the distribution o resources; and
bargaining and negotiation. Student assignments will include exploring
the maniestation o these orces, locally, domestically, and internationally.
Recent guest lecturers have included political strategist Howard Wolson;
ormer National Security Advisor Anthony Lake; and Cornell behavioral
economist Robert Frank; journalists Bill Finnegan and Tina Rosenberg;
political scientists Jack Snyder and Sheri Berman; economist Raymond
Fisman; and sociologist o religion Courtney Bender.
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THOMAS B. EDSA
Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer
Moore Proessor, joined the aculty ater 25 years at
The Washington Postcovering presidential elections,
the House and Senate, campaign fnance, lobbying,
tax policy, demographic trends, values conicts, and
social welare policy. He is currently the political
editor oThe Hufngton Postand a correspondent
or The New Republicand National Journal. He is the author o several
books, including Chain Reaction, a Pulitzer fnalist in General Nonfction.
He has written or The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review
of Books, The Nation, and Dissent, and won the Carey McWilliams Award
o the American Political Science Association.
A EX AN DE R ST I E
Alexander Stille, the Sn Paolo Proessor o
International Journalism, is a contributor to The
New York Times, la Repubblica, The New Yorker,
The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and
The New Republic. He is the author o our books
The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European
Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Cultu
Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi; The Future of the Pas
Excellent Cadavers: The Maa and the Death of the First Italian Republic;
and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism
Stille is a graduate o Yale University and the Columbia Journalism Schoo
and was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2008.
Politics
Popular Outside Courses:
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Immigration,Cities and States
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Toda, I push all ofm stories past theimmediate, and into remeaning that can helpreaders make better
sense of the world.
Basharat Peer
Joust Wteauto, Curfewed Night
m.a. PliicS, 07
Beore doing the M.A., I worked as an editor at
Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at the Open SocietyInstitute. My work has appeared in The New Yorker,
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Granta, Financial
Times magazine, and The New Granta Book of Travel.
I am working on my second book, Shadow of the
Broken Dome, a reported account o religion and
politics in modern India to be published by Free
Press, Simon and Schuster.
Naomi Zeveloff
Wte/deputy cutue toThe Forward
m.a. PliicS, 11
Beore I came to the Columbia M.A. program
I worked as a reporter at alternative newsweein several western cities. I came to the M.A. p
because I wanted to write or national publica
and I didnt see a clear path rom local papers
major magazines. The M.A. program pushed m
take on ambitious national stories, and I repo
overseas or the frst time. It was truly baptism
but I came out o it a more thoughtul journali
the ideas and the skill set to execute bold pro
Terr McCoSt WteSeattle Weekly
m.a. PliicS, 12
Beore I came to the J-school,
I served in the United States Peace
Corps in Cambodia and was also
a contributing writer to GlobalPost,
along with other publications.
I applied because I already knewhow to report and writebut I
needed something more to take
my work to that next level, to
endow it with the context you see
in The New York Times Magazine
or The Atlantic Monthly. And ater
a year at Columbia, I understand
better how to get there. Today,
I push all o my stories past the
immediate, and into real meaning
that can help readers make better
sense o the world.
ALUM PROFILE
MASTER OF ARTS PROG
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PROFESSORS
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MARGUERITE HOOWAY
Marguerite Holloway is the director o Science and
Environmental Journalism at Columbia University
and the author oThe Measure of Manhattan, to
be published by W.W. Norton in February 2013. She
has been teaching at the Journalism School since
1997, and was awarded Columbias Presidential
Award or Excellence in Teaching in 2009. She is
a contributing editor at Scientic American, where she has covered many
topics, particularly environmental issues, public health, neuroscience,
women in science, and physics. Holloway is a graduate o Brown University
and received her M.S. degree rom Columbia Journalism School.
JO NAT HA N W EI NE R
Jonathan Weiner has ocused on science reportin
1979. His latest book is Long for This World. Previ
books include The Beak of the Finch, winner o th
1995 Pulitzer Prize or General Nonfction; Time, L
Memory, winner o the National Book Critics Circl
Award or General Nonfction; and His Brothers K
Weiner has written or The New Yorker, The New Y
Times Magazine, The New Republic, and other newspapers and magazine
He served as Rockeeller Universitys frst Writer in Residence and was aw
a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2008.
Science,Health and theEnvironment
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Students in the Robert Wood Johnson
Program in Health and Science Journalism
learn to examine science rom multiple
perspectiveseasily shiting rom the
quantifable to the cultural, rom quarks
to the human genome.
Experts take the Science class on a whirlwind tour o some o sciences most compelling
subjects, including contemporary physics, the ethics o public health, epigenetics, climate
change, the history o industry, and trends in conservation biology. Students learn to
deconstruct scientifc studies, to retain skepticism, and to bolster health and science
stories with context, history, and the careul use o data. Students are also taught to use
all the tools o narrative nonfction to convey complicated concepts with orce and energy.
The feld o science writing is changing explosively, and this course is designed to help our
students hone lasting skills, adapt to its transormations, and shape its uture.
Recent guest lecturers have included physicist and author Brian Greene; Daniel Kevles,
a historian o science and the Stanley Woodward Proessor o History at Yale University;
Frances Champagne, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Columbia; and Dr. Marc Dick-
stein, attending anesthesiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Moises Velasquez-Manoff
oet repoteauto oAn Epidemic of Absence
m.S. 05; m.a. 06 halh and Scinc
Proessor Marguerite Holloway led us earlessly
and enthusiastically through everything rom
quantum mechanics to human migrations out o
Arica. And the classes I took outside the Journalism
School have proven immensely important, especially
one on climate science that I took at the Goddard
Institute or Space Studies. Also, elements o the
Evidence and Inerence course have come in handy.
Even the simple task o learning the terms sociolo-
gists have or the various human biases has proven
immensely helpul. You cant change how you think
until you know youre thinking it.
Jenn Marder
repote/Poue; See pge etoPBS newshou
m.a. halh and Scinc, 07
I worked as a sta writer or three dierent n
pers, most recently the Long Beach Press-Tel
beore coming to the M.A. program. Soon at
uation, I began working as a national aairs
or the PBS NewsHour, and now I work as a re
producer, and web editor o our science cont
The M.A. program taught me how to think cri
about scientifc research, analyze research st
and write about them. I think oten about thi
Marguerite and Jonathan taught us througho
yearhow a good science story should be co
ly shiting perspectives: zooming in to detail
science, pulling out to show the big picture, a
telling the story o the person behind the res
with as much character and color as possible
Salimah Ebrahimfeee
m.a. halh and Scinc 12
As a student in the M.A. program
I came in wanting to ocus on theplaces where environmental and
security issues overlapthe new
green-lines, as I call them. While
at Columbia, I took classes about
the public health impacts o climate
change and the politics o resource
scarcity, and traveled to Sierra
Leone to write my thesis about the
United Nations eorts to expand
peace-keeping and peace-building
responses in places coping with en-
vironmental crisis. Ater the program,I interned at Reuters in Washington,
D.C., covering the intersection o pol-
itics and healthcarea subject that
I became more interested in during
my time in the M.A. program. Im
constantly drawing on the lessons o
the past year as I engage daily with
doctors, policy makers, patients and
government leaders. Issues Ive re-
cently written about range rom HIV
testing to access to health insurance
or undocumented immigrants to theSupreme Courts decision to uphold
President Obamas healthcare law.
I am now working on a proposal or
a book wilst pursuing several exciting
opportunities in the worlds o new
media, technology and broadcast.
Given that media toda moves at suc
a fast clip, the opportunit the M.A.program extends to journaliststobuild subject area expertise, interactwith leaders in our field and thinkthoughtfull about the ethics, craftand art of stor-tellingis rare.
ALUM PROFILE
MASTER OF ARTS PROG
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In addition to your
concentration semina
youll take core
courses and electivesand complete a
masters thesis.
Evidence and Inference
This course teaches advanced research techniques
or journalists and skills in gathering and assessing
inormation, oten adapted rom other areas o the
university, which most working journalists dont have
but that are highly useul in journalistic work. These
include statistical literacy, rigorous interviewing
techniques, understanding the work o experts, and
locating material in historical archives and data bases.
The course also teaches a disciplined journalistic
method o testing assumptions and hypotheses,
recognizing ways stories can distort the truth andmaking sure that reporting frmly proves its points.
A distinguished group o leading Columbia aculty rom
outside the Journalism School helps teach the course.
A Histor of Journalism for Journalists
This course provides an overview o American journal-
ism rom colonial days to the present. It emphasizes
the relationship between journalism and other insti-
tutions in a democracy, examining how the role o the
press emerged, how it has changed, and how this role
is similar to or dierent rom that in other democracies.
Coreclasses
NICHOAS EMANN
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and
Henry R. Luce Proessor o
Journalism, has worked at
The Washington Monthly,
Texas Monthly, The Wash-
ington Post, The Atlantic,
and The New Yorker, where
he has been a sta writer since 1999. Lemann has
published fve books, most recently Redemption:The Last Battle of the Civil War; The Big Test: The
Secret History of the American Meritocracy, which
helped lead to a major reorm o the SAT; and The
Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How
It Changed America, which won several book prizes.
Lemann is a graduate o Harvard University, where he
was president oThe Harvard Crimson. He teaches
Evidence and Inerence.
MICHAE SCHUDSON
Michael Schudson is an
expert in the felds o jour-
nalism, sociology, and public
culture. He is the author
oDiscovering the News,
The Good Citizen, and the
recent Why Democracies
Need an Unlovable Press, in addition to several
other books about the history and sociology o theAmerican news media, advertising, popular culture,
Watergate, and cultural memory. He is widely pub-
lished in the media and academic journals, and has
received many honors, including Guggenheim and
MacArthur ellowships. Schudson graduated rom
Swarthmore College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D.
in sociology rom Harvard University. He teaches
A History o Journalism.
TAI WOODWARD
Tali Woodward, the directo
o the M.A. program, is a
ree-lance writer and edito
For many years, she worke
or The San Francisco Bay
Guardian, where she wrot
investigative pieces abou
health care and politics and won awards or long-
orm writing. She has also written or magazinesincluding Newsweek, New York, Conservation and
National Geographic. Woodward earned a B.A.
rom the University o Caliornia, Berkeley and
an M.A. in science journalism rom the Columbia
University Graduate School o Journalism. She
co-teaches The Future o Journalism with Tow Cen
director Emily Bell.
The Future of Journalism
This course is designed to give M.A. students an understanding
o the ways that technology is transorming journalismrom theramped-up news cycle to high-tech methods o story construction,
rom the evolving culture o reader engagement to radically chang-
ing business imperatives. We want students to grapple with what
these changes mean or the industry and or their careers.
Electives
Each M.A. student takes three electives over the course o the
academic year: one in the all and two in the spring. Students may
enroll in almost any graduate-level course throughout Columbia
University, including the other proessional schools, provided it
will deepen their understanding o the chosen area o study.
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The Masters Thesis
Students in the M.A. program
must produce a masters
thesisa sophisticated worko long-orm journalismo
about 10,000 words (or the
equivalent in another medium).
The thesis is an integral part o the program, intended to
give students the opportunity to explore a topic in depth
and synthesize what they learn in a sophisticated manne
Ideally, the M.A. thesis balances the demands o writing
a general audience with the need or thorough and nuan
journalism about complex issues. The thesis is advised b
a journalism proessor and a proessor or expert with a dbackground in the subject covered by the thesis. With th
o these two advisers, the M.A. student sets out to comp
the sort o work that an educated reader (or viewer, or lis
would consume with pleasure and that an expert in the f
would deem inormed and thoughtul.
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The deadline orall applications isJanuary 15.
The program is
ull-time and runsrom August to May.
Important information
Ideal Applicant
We seek students who are experienced
journalists, have excellent writing skills,
and have mastered the undamentals
o reporting and journalistic ethics. In
addition, we look or candidates who are
curious about the world, eager to learn
more about a particular subject area,
determined and resourceul, motivated
to dedicate their careers to journalism
and exhibit leadership potential. Mostsuccessul candidates have between three
and fteen years o proessional journalism
experience. We welcome applications rom
both domestic and international students.
journalism.columbia.edu/apply
Scholarships and Financial Aid
Columbia Graduate School o Journalism
is proud to oer generous fnancial
assistance to students who demonstrate
excellent academic achievement, fnancial
need, and exceptional promise or leading
careers in journalism. We work with each
student to ease the cost o attendance
through a combination o scholarships and
need-based programs, including grants
and ederal and private loans.
journalism.columbia.edu/scholarships
Career Services
Graduates o the program have been hired
at news organizations including The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The
Wall Street Journal, Newsweek.com, Time
magazine, Pro Publica, Reuters, the PBS
NewsHour,American Banker, and CNN.
They are also writing books, teaching
journalism, producing independent
documentaries, creating international
blogs, and reelancing or magazines,newspapers, and broadcast and online
media. Our Career Services staall
ormer journalists with strong industry
connections in print, broadcast, and online
mediaworks closely with students to help
them pursue the most meaningul jobs in
the U.S. and abroad. Students meet with a
Career Services counselor or one-on-one
consultations throughout the year and may
attend any o the dozens o job-hunting
strategy sessions held at the School.
journalism.columbia.edu/careers
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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MASTER OF SCIENCE
The 10-month Master of Science degree oers aspiring and experienced journalis
opportunity to study the skills, the art, and the ethics o journalism by reporting a
writing stories that range rom short news pieces to complex narrative eatures.
DUAL MASTER OF SCIENCE INCOMPUTER SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM
The our-semester dual Master of Science in Computer Science and Journalism, a
collaboration between the Engineering and Journalism schools, oers unique and
specialized training in the digital environment, including technical and editorial sk
all aspects o computer-supported news gathering and digital media production.
MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE
The 9-month Master of Arts program is designed or experienced journalists who
like to deepen their knowledge o journalism, while studying a particular subject a
politics; science, health and the environment; business and economics; or arts an
culture. Students in all masters degree programs receive training in digital journal
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHy
The Doctor of Philosophy in Communications, which typically runs fve to seven ye
takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study o communications. Ph.D. student
individual courses o study at departments and graduate schools across the Unive
as well as at Teachers College.
The Journalism School also oers a wide range o dual-degree programs.
For more inormation, please visit journalism.columbia.edu/academics
Commitment to DiversitColumbia Journalism School is committed to creating and supporting
a community diverse in every way: race, ethnicity, geography, religion,
academic and extracurricular interest, amily circumstance, sexual
orientation, socioeconomic background, and more. We oer a curriculum
as pluralistic and polyphonic as New York itsel, and a community o
scholars who embody this commitment to diversity and who encourage
discussion and debate. Students at Columbia fnd a setting that allows
them to explore diversity in a variety o ways and a university that prides
itsel on serious intellectual inquiry, the exploration o diverse ideas, thestrength o interdisciplinary investigation, a culture o dialogue and debate,
and a student body committed to service and civic engagement. In this
setting, students seek to understand each other and themselves. This is
the transormative power o diversity in educationits ability to enrich the
individual as it enriches the community and society as a whole.
Pulitzer Prizes
The Alred I. duPont-Columbia University
Awards or Broadcast
National MagazineAward
The Maria MoorsCabot Prizes
John B. Oakes Aw
John ChancellorAward or Excelle
in Journalism
Lukas Prizes
Mike Berger Awa
Paul TobenkinMemorial Award
Journalism AwardsThe Journalism School administers many proessional aw
to uphold standards o excellence in the media, a traditio
that Joseph Pulitzer began when he established the scho
and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia.
Columbia Journalism Schooldegree programs
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL-TIME STUDy
Applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Admits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Enrolled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
COST OF ATTENDANCE 20122013
Tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $44,992
Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,914
Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,876
TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $76,782
ANTICIPATED SCHOLARSHIP /
FELLOWSHIP FUNDING 20122013
$1,615,053
94% o those who applied or scholarshipaid received unding.
range of awards
$3,036$74,572
average award
$31,668
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