master of arts

M.A.

The M.A. program is for experienced journalists who arent satisfied merely by competency. They want to go deeper, to navigate complicated terrain and to cover it in a sophisticated, nuanced manner. Students emerge with the subjectmatter grounding that enables them to situate news events in their larger context, to ask more informed questions, and to authoritatively evaluate claims made by sources.

M.A. or M.S.?
Which program is right for you?
MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM The prestigious, nine-month Master of Arts program, inaugurated in 2005, is for people who can demonstrate proficiency with the essential skills of journalism: effective reporting and clear writing. Unlike the Master of Science program, which focuses on teaching basic reporting and writing, the M.A. is designed for experienced journalists who are eager to immerse themselves in a specific area of study and to be mentored by journalists who are the among the most accomplished in the world. Successful applicants usually have between three and fifteen years of professional journalism experience.

Learning the Columbia way

To educate new generations of journalists and uphold standards of journalistic excellence has been the mission of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since it opened a century ago. The quality, vitality, and innovation of our degree programs remain unsurpassed, providing the foundation for students not only to succeed, but to shape the future of journalism. Ten years after Joseph Pulitzer first 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 first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.

Choose your path.

Applicants choose one of four concentrations during the application process:
Arts and Culture
PAG E 2

Business and Economics M.A.

PAG E 4

Politics
PAG E 6

Science, Health and the Environment

PAG E 8

MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM The M.S. program, which began in 1935, is the cornerstone of the Journalism School. It offers aspiring and experienced journalists the opportunity to study the skills, the art and the ethics of journalism by reporting and writing stories ranging from short news pieces to complex narrative features. Students acquire a core set of sophisticated newsgathering skills that will emphasize in-person, interview-based reporting as well as other means of acquiring and assessing information. They take courses from each of three modules: The Written Word; Images and Sound; and Audience and Engagement, which focus on topics ranging from deadline newswriting to interactive graphics, from social media to video skills.

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 Journalism. Each concentration is overseen by two full-time members of the Journalism School faculty, who pull in subject-area experts from Columbia and beyond, creating seminars that marry deep subject knowledge with journalism. These courses include heavy reading, case studies, field trips, journalistic assignments, and other exercises. Regardless of concentration, every M.A. student takes three core M.A. classesEvidence and Inference, The History of American Journalism, and The Future of 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 project that results in a written piece of 8,000 to 10,000 words, or its multimedia equivalent.

Explore seminars

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Arts and Culture

Historical knowledge, analytical understanding, and nimble thinking across a range of artistic disciplines and cultural realms are the goals of the Arts and Culture concentration.
Through a combination of extensive reading, case studies, site visits, and teaching collaborations with scholars, artists, and other leaders in the arts, students consider the formal and emotional force of the arts as well as the ways they function as commodities in a global marketplace. Students also learn about policy and economic issues: private and public funding models, intellectual property law, and trade agreements. Students develop the skills, analytical habits, and flexibility to cover a wide range of stories, and work on becoming cultural reporters and critics in the fullest sense. Respected experts from Columbia and elsewhere are often brought in to guest-teach. Recent guests have included Jane Ginsburg, an expert on intellectual property at Columbia Law School; Frances Negron-Muntaner from Columbias English department; Andreas Huyssen, a comparative literature professor and an expert on the Frankfurt School; Shakespearian James Shapiro; anthropology professor Page West; and art dealer Louis Salerno.

Popular Outside Courses:

Architectural Theory
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Film Studies
School of the Arts

History of Theatre
School of the Arts

TV as a Dramatic Medium
School of the Arts

Sexuality, Gender, Health

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Sociology

Jazz
School of the Arts

Network Culture
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Musicology
School of the Arts

Planning the New New York

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Elements of Dramatic Narrative

School of the Arts: Film

PROFE S S ORS
DAVID HAJDU Alisa Solomon

David Hajdu is the music critic for 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 of Lush Life, Positively 4th Street, and Heroes and Villains, all three of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Ten-Cent Plague, which Amazon named the Best Book of the Year on the arts. Hajdu is a graduate of New York University.

Alisa Solomon came to Columbia from 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 radio program Beyond the Pale. She was on the staff at The Village Voice for 21 years, covering theater and cultural issues, and winning awards for 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.

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Dorian Merina
Reporter/Anchor Free Speech Radio News
M.S. 07; M.A. Arts and Culture, 08

Evidence and Inference encouraged me to ask questions about how a story is framed, what is included, and how new technology is shaping news. It also taught me research skills, challenged and refined my interviewing techniques, and gave me the tools to approach specialized academic fields and primary documents. One highlight of 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 figure in the Philippines. I spent 2010-2011 on a Fulbright research year in the Philippines, documenting oral poetry from a remote indigenous group and am now back at FSRN.

The M.A. program was an opportunity to take a deeper look at what we do as journalists and how we do it.
Jimmy So
Deputy Books Editor Newsweek / The Daily Beast
M.A. Arts and Culture, 11

Natasha Del Toro

Freelance/Host for PBS program America Reframed
M.S. 05; M.A. Arts and Culture, 06

Doing the M.A. is like learning to swim. Id been reporting for nearly 10 years, but I was only flailing about. Every time I finished a story, I was terrified of plunging in again. But when you work closely with very good swimmersthe best in the worldyou gain confidence. You tread longer, you dive deeper. If youre not careful, you might even believe that you, too, can someday be one of the best in the world.

If it werent for my time at Columbia, I wouldnt be where I am today. The M.A. program bolstered my confidence in arts reporting and deepened my respect for journalism. Professor Solomon gives a terrific survey of dance, theater, art, music and architecture. The most invaluable part of my experience was my fellow classmates, many of whom are now working at the most respected media outlets in the country, and the facultysome of the most respected journalists in the business.

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Business and Economics

The primary objective of the Business concentration is to impart simple, fast, and effective ways to break down complicated problems, locate relevant data, and compensate for inherent biases.
The fall term stresses three attributes of excellent economics reporting: a firm grasp of basic economic theory and institutions; hands-on knowledge of data for measuring economic performance and assessing the validity of economic arguments; and the ability to find 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 of recent news. Students learn basic skills in accounting, corporate finance, securities law, securities analysis, and portfolio management, but the course is firmly rooted in the journalistic process. Respected experts from Columbia and elsewhere are often brought in to guest-teach. Recent guest lecturers have included Stephen Grisky, vice chairman, General Motors; Eric Schwartz, former co-head of Global Equities, Goldman Sachs; Thomas Schumacher, president, Disney Theatrical Group and former co-head, Disney Animation; Karen Seymour, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, former chief of the criminal division, U.S. Attorneys office, Southern District of New York; and from the Columbia faculty, Scott Hemphill, chief of the antitrust bureau, State of New York, on leave from Columbia Law School; and Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School.

Popular Outside Courses:

Accounting
School of International and Public Affairs

Corporate Finance
School of International and Public Affairs

Capital Markets
The Business School

International Capital Markets

School of International and Public Affairs

Corporate Strategy
The Business School

Mergers and Acquisitions

The Business School

Emerging Financial Markets

The Business School

PROFE S S ORS
SYLVIA NASAR JAMES B. STEWART

Sylvia Nasar is the James S. and John L. Knight Professor of 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 awardwinning biography, A Beautiful Mind, inspired the movie directed by Ron Howard and the American Experience documentary, A Brilliant Madness. Her New Yorker article Manifold 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 from 1991 to 1999, and before that a staff writer at Fortune and columnist at U.S. News & World Report.

James B. Stewart is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism. He writes a financial column in the Business Day section of The New York Times and is a former Page One editor at The Wall Street Journal and a regular contributor to The New Yorker and SmartMoney, which he helped launch. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is Tangled Webs, published in spring 2011. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his articles in The Wall Street Journal about the 1987 upheaval in the stock market. A lawyer by training, Stewart is a graduate of DePauw University and Harvard Law School.

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Miriam Gottfried
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
M.A. Business and Economics, 09

After working in business journalism for several years, I was unsure about the value of journalism school. But when I learned about the M.A. Business concentration, I saw an opportunity to gain deeper technical knowledge of the financial world, which I lacked after an undergraduate degree in the humanities. I took accounting, corporate finance, and corporate strategy classes at the Business School and the School of International and Public Affairs. Professors Nasar and Stewart showed us how to interpret economic data to become our own analysts. The skills I learned have unquestionably made me a more critical and confident reporter.

Professors Nasar and Stewart showed us how to interpret economic data to become our own analysts.
Jeff Horwitz
Editor, Risk Management American Banker
M.A. Business and Economics, 09

Rafael Mathus Ruiz

New York Correspondent La Nacion (Argentina)
M.A. Business and Economics, 10

I left a reporting job covering federal lobbying in Washington to attend the M.A. program in order to rethink some of the choices Ive made under deadline pressure. I also wanted to work with Professors James B. Stewart and Sylvia Nasar, who offer a kind of mentoring that is all too rare for 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.

Before joining the Business & Economics concentration of the M.A. program in 2009, I worked as a Financial and Economics reporter at La Nacion, based in Buenos Aires. The J-school led to a turning point in my career, allowing me to become a foreign correspondent, my ultimate aspiration as a journalist at that time. But the most important thing for me is that it will always be the place where I met new friends, who today are among my closest friends.

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Politics
M.A. Politics students study the primary political systems and institutions that organize our world and learn a series of tools that journalists can use to analyze political situations.
This concentration is appropriate for candidates who want to be foreign correspondents, legal reporters, education reporters, city hall reporters, and political reporters. Across all of these domains, certain themes and issues recur, and this course is therefore organized around eight such themes: power; identity and nationalism; mobilization; collective action and social conflict; rights; institutions; the distribution of resources; and bargaining and negotiation. Student assignments will include exploring the manifestation of these forces, locally, domestically, and internationally. Recent guest lecturers have included political strategist Howard Wolfson; former 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 of religion Courtney Bender.

Popular Outside Courses:

Terrorism and Globalization
School of International and Public Affairs

Immigration, Cities and States

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Sociology

U.S. Role in World Affairs

School of International and Public Affairs

International Human Rights Law and Policy

COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW

Rethinking Human Rights

School of International and Public Affairs

Immigrants and Immigration

School of International and Public Affairs

Sociology of Urban Education

Teachers College

Political Environment of Development

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Geopolitics of Oil
School of International and Public Affairs

Comparative Constitutionalism
COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW

PROFE S S ORS
THOMAS B. EDSALL ALEXANDER STILLE

Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, joined the faculty after 25 years at The Washington Post covering presidential elections, the House and Senate, campaign finance, lobbying, tax policy, demographic trends, values conflicts, and social welfare policy. He is currently the political editor of The Huffington Post and a correspondent for The New Republic and National Journal. He is the author of several books, including Chain Reaction, a Pulitzer finalist in General Nonfiction. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Dissent, and won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association.

Alexander Stille, the Sn Paolo Professor of 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 of four books: The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi; The Future of the Past; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic; and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism. Stille is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia Journalism School, and was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2008.

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Terry McCoy
Staff Writer Seattle Weekly
M.A. Politics, 12

Before 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 knew how 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 after a year at Columbia, I understand better how to get there. Today, I push all of my stories past the immediate, and into real meaning that can help readers make better sense of the world.

Today, I push all of my stories past the immediate, and into real meaning that can help readers make better sense of the world.
Basharat Peer
Journalist and Writer Author, Curfewed Night
M.A. Politics, 07

Naomi Zeveloff
Writer/Deputy Culture Editor The Forward
M.A. Politics, 11

Before doing the M.A., I worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at the Open Society Institute. 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 of religion and politics in modern India to be published by Free Press, Simon and Schuster.

Before I came to the Columbia M.A. program, I worked as a reporter at alternative newsweeklies in several western cities. I came to the M.A. program because I wanted to write for national publications, and I didnt see a clear path from local papers to the major magazines. The M.A. program pushed me to take on ambitious national stories, and I reported overseas for the first time. It was truly baptism by fire, but I came out of it a more thoughtful journalist, with the ideas and the skill set to execute bold projects.

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Science, Health and the Environment

Students in the Robert Wood Johnson Program in Health and Science Journalism learn to examine science from multiple perspectiveseasily shifting from the quantifiable to the cultural, from quarks to the human genome.
Experts take the Science class on a whirlwind tour of some of sciences most compelling subjects, including contemporary physics, the ethics of public health, epigenetics, climate change, the history of industry, and trends in conservation biology. Students learn to deconstruct scientific studies, to retain skepticism, and to bolster health and science stories with context, history, and the careful use of data. Students are also taught to use all the tools of narrative nonfiction to convey complicated concepts with force and energy. The field of science writing is changing explosively, and this course is designed to help our students hone lasting skills, adapt to its transformations, and shape its future. Recent guest lecturers have included physicist and author Brian Greene; Daniel Kevles, a historian of science and the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University; Frances Champagne, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Columbia; and Dr. Marc Dickstein, attending anesthesiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Popular Outside Courses:

Climate Change
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Critical Reading of Research Articles

Mailman School of Public Health

History of Medicine
Mailman School of Public Health

Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health

Rethinking Human Rights

School of International and Public Affairs

Ethics of Public Health

Mailman School of Public Health

Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Psychology

Development
The Earth Institute

Restoration Ecology
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

The Changing American Family

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Sociology

PROFE S S ORS
MARGUERITE HOLLOWAY JONATHAN WEINER

Marguerite Holloway is the director of Science and Environmental Journalism at Columbia University and the author of The 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 for Excellence in Teaching in 2009. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American, where she has covered many topics, particularly environmental issues, public health, neuroscience, women in science, and physics. Holloway is a graduate of Brown University and received her M.S. degree from Columbia Journalism School.

Jonathan Weiner has focused on science reporting since 1979. His latest book is Long for This World. Previous books include The Beak of the Finch, winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Time, Love, Memory, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction; and His Brothers Keeper. Weiner has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and other newspapers and magazines. He served as Rockefeller Universitys first Writer in Residence and was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2008.

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Salimah Ebrahim
Freelance
M.A. Health and Science 12

As a student in the M.A. program I came in wanting to focus on the places where environmental and security issues overlapthe new green-lines, as I call them. While at Columbia, I took classes about the public health impacts of climate change and the politics of resource scarcity, and traveled to Sierra Leone to write my thesis about the United Nations efforts to expand peace-keeping and peace-building responses in places coping with environmental crisis. After the program, I interned at Reuters in Washington, D.C., covering the intersection of politics and healthcarea subject that I became more interested in during my time in the M.A. program. Im constantly drawing on the lessons of the past year as I engage daily with doctors, policy makers, patients and government leaders. Issues Ive recently written about range from HIV testing to access to health insurance for undocumented immigrants to the Supreme Courts decision to uphold President Obamas healthcare law. I am now working on a proposal for a book wilst pursuing several exciting opportunities in the worlds of new media, technology and broadcast.

Given that media today moves at such a fast clip, the opportunity the M.A. program extends to journaliststo build subject area expertise, interact with leaders in our field and think thoughtfully about the ethics, craft and art of story-tellingis rare.

Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Environmental Reporter Author of An Epidemic of Absence
M.S. 05; M.A. 06 Health and Science

Jenny Marder
Reporter/Producer; Science page editor PBS NewsHour
M.A. Health and Science, 07

Professor Marguerite Holloway led us fearlessly and enthusiastically through everything from quantum mechanics to human migrations out of Africa. 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 for Space Studies. Also, elements of the Evidence and Inference course have come in handy. Even the simple task of learning the terms sociologists have for the various human biases has proven immensely helpful. You cant change how you think until you know youre thinking it.

I worked as a staff writer for three different newspapers, most recently the Long Beach Press-Telegram, before coming to the M.A. program. Soon after graduation, I began working as a national affairs reporter for the PBS NewsHour, and now I work as a reporter, producer, and web editor of our science content. The M.A. program taught me how to think critically about scientific research, analyze research studies, and write about them. I think often about things that Marguerite and Jonathan taught us throughout the yearhow a good science story should be constantly shifting perspectives: zooming in to detail the science, pulling out to show the big picture, and then telling the story of the person behind the research with as much character and color as possible.

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Core classes
Evidence and Inference
This course teaches advanced research techniques for journalists and skills in gathering and assessing information, often adapted from other areas of the university, which most working journalists dont have but that are highly useful in journalistic work. These include statistical literacy, rigorous interviewing techniques, understanding the work of experts, and locating material in historical archives and data bases. The course also teaches a disciplined journalistic method of testing assumptions and hypotheses, recognizing ways stories can distort the truth and making sure that reporting firmly proves its points. A distinguished group of leading Columbia faculty from outside the Journalism School helps teach the course.

In addition to your concentration seminar, youll take core courses and electives and complete a masters thesis.
The Future of Journalism
This course is designed to give M.A. students an understanding of the ways that technology is transforming journalismfrom the ramped-up news cycle to high-tech methods of story construction, from the evolving culture of reader engagement to radically changing business imperatives. We want students to grapple with what these changes mean for the industry and for their careers.

A History of Journalism for Journalists

This course provides an overview of American journalism from colonial days to the present. It emphasizes the relationship between journalism and other institutions in a democracy, examining how the role of the press emerged, how it has changed, and how this role is similar to or different from that in other democracies.

Electives
Each M.A. student takes three electives over the course of the academic year: one in the fall and two in the spring. Students may enroll in almost any graduate-level course throughout Columbia University, including the other professional schools, provided it will deepen their understanding of the chosen area of study.

Nichol as lemann

michael schudson

tali woodward

Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, has worked at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1999. Lemann has published five 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 reform of the SAT; and The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, which won several book prizes. Lemann is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He teaches Evidence and Inference.

Michael Schudson is an expert in the fields of journalism, sociology, and public culture. He is the author of Discovering 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 of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory. He is widely published in the media and academic journals, and has received many honors, including Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. Schudson graduated from Swarthmore College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. He teaches A History of Journalism.

Tali Woodward, the director of the M.A. program, is a free-lance writer and editor. For many years, she worked for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, where she wrote investigative pieces about health care and politics and won awards for longform writing. She has also written for magazines including Newsweek, New York, Conservation and National Geographic. Woodward earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in science journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She co-teaches The Future of Journalism with Tow Center director Emily Bell.

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The Masters Thesis

Students in the M.A. program must produce a masters thesisa sophisticated work of long-form journalismof about 10,000 words (or the equivalent in another medium).

The thesis is an integral part of the program, intended to give students the opportunity to explore a topic in depth and synthesize what they learn in a sophisticated manner. Ideally, the M.A. thesis balances the demands of writing for a general audience with the need for thorough and nuanced journalism about complex issues. The thesis is advised by both a journalism professor and a professor or expert with a deep background in the subject covered by the thesis. With the help of these two advisers, the M.A. student sets out to complete the sort of work that an educated reader (or viewer, or listener) would consume with pleasure and that an expert in the field would deem informed and thoughtful.

Important information
Ideal Applicant
APPLICATION DEADLINE We seek students who are experienced journalists, have excellent writing skills, and have mastered the fundamentals of reporting and journalistic ethics. In addition, we look for candidates who are curious about the world, eager to learn more about a particular subject area, determined and resourceful, motivated to dedicate their careers to journalism and exhibit leadership potential. Most successful candidates have between three and fifteen years of professional journalism experience. We welcome applications from both domestic and international students. journalism.columbia.edu/apply

Career Services
Graduates of 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 freelancing for magazines, newspapers, and broadcast and online media. Our Career Services staffall former journalists with strong industry connections in print, broadcast, and online mediaworks closely with students to help them pursue the most meaningful jobs in the U.S. and abroad. Students meet with a Career Services counselor for one-on-one consultations throughout the year and may attend any of the dozens of job-hunting strategy sessions held at the School. journalism.columbia.edu/careers

The deadline for fall applications is January 15. The program is full-time and runs from August to May.

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism is proud to offer generous financial assistance to students who demonstrate excellent academic achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise for leading careers in journalism. We work with each student to ease the cost of attendance through a combination of scholarships and need-based programs, including grants and federal and private loans. journalism.columbia.edu/scholarships

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By the numbers
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL-TIME STUDY

Columbia Journalism School degree programs

MASTER OF SCIENCE
The 10-month Master of Science degree offers aspiring and experienced journalists the opportunity to study the skills, the art, and the ethics of journalism by reporting and writing stories that range from short news pieces to complex narrative features.

Applicants.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Admits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Enrolled.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

COST OF ATTENDANCE 20122013

DUAL MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM

The four-semester dual Master of Science in Computer Science and Journalism, a close collaboration between the Engineering and Journalism schools, offers unique and highly specialized training in the digital environment, including technical and editorial skills in all aspects of computer-supported news gathering and digital media production.

Tuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $44,992 Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,914 Living.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,876 TOTA L .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $76,782

ANTICIPATED SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIP FUNDING 20122013

MASTER OF ARTS degree

The 9-month Master of Arts program is designed for experienced journalists who would like to deepen their knowledge of journalism, while studying a particular subject area: politics; science, health and the environment; business and economics; or arts and culture. Students in all masters degree programs receive training in digital journalism.

$1,615,053 94% of those who applied for scholarship aid received funding.
range of awards

doctor of philosophy
The Doctor of Philosophy in Communications, which typically runs five to seven years, takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of communications. Ph.D. students craft individual courses of study at departments and graduate schools across the University, as well as at Teachers College. The Journalism School also offers a wide range of dual-degree programs. For more information, please visit journalism.columbia.edu/academics

$3,036$74,572
average award

$31,668

Commitment to Diversity
Columbia Journalism School is committed to creating and supporting a community diverse in every way: race, ethnicity, geography, religion, academic and extracurricular interest, family circumstance, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and more. We offer a curriculum as pluralistic and polyphonic as New York itself, and a community of scholars who embody this commitment to diversity and who encourage discussion and debate. Students at Columbia find a setting that allows them to explore diversity in a variety of ways and a university that prides itself on serious intellectual inquiry, the exploration of diverse ideas, the strength of interdisciplinary investigation, a culture of 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 transformative power of diversity in educationits ability to enrich the individual as it enriches the community and society as a whole.

Journalism Awards
The Journalism School administers many professional awards to uphold standards of excellence in the media, a tradition that Joseph Pulitzer began when he established the school and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia.

Pulitzer Prizes The Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Awards for Broadcast National Magazine Award The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes

John B. Oakes Award John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism Lukas Prizes Mike Berger Award Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award

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