Magazine

Whether printed on glossy paper or lovingly laid out on-line, magazines continue to offer the best examples of in-depth reporting, stylish writing and meticulously edited stories. NYU's magazine program is premised on the belief that mastering the traditional skills required to produce great journalism will remain essential in a constantly evolving media culture. We offer a wealth of reporting and writing classes dealing with subjects ranging from food and fashion to politics and sports. The program enthusiastically embraces new technologies, with an emphasis on visual story-telling through video and photography.

Many of the greatest magazine writers have been generalists (A.J. Liebling writing about everything from boxing to press criticism or Calvin Trillin describing his obsession with barbecue as well as covering the civil rights movement.) That is why the magazine program is designed for students interested in a wide array of topics. In our first-semester Reporting and Writing seminar, students learn about New York's glamorous and gritty worlds: covering Fashion Night Out, writing about criminal courts and reporting on the city’s ever-changing neighborhoods, from immigrant sub-cultures to raucous night life.

Magazine students try their hands at every type of journalism – deadline driven hard news stories, profiles, in-depth features, personal essays, opinion articles and reader-service pieces.

Manhattan is the magazine capital of the country, and that brings obvious benefits to NYU graduate students that are difficult to replicate anywhere else. Our career development staff helps match students with top-notch editorial internships. Writers and editors from publications such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, GQ and Vanity Fair are often guest lecturers. In recent years, NYU students – while studying in the magazine program – have published stories in the on-line or print editions of The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Elle, Wired, ESPN  Magazine, Marie-Claire, Field & Stream, Newsday and the New York Daily News.

NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has  partnered with The New York Times to publish the on-line site, The Local East Village, covering 100 blocks in our neighborhood. Magazine students are encouraged to take a class devoted solely to reporting, blogging, taking photos and making videos for this exciting new site.

The magazine program has incorporated seminars in photography and videography as part of the required reporting courses. Magazine students can take elective classes in radio, documentary film-making and new media at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

No one can predict the shape of journalism in 20 years, but important journalistic qualities will endure. The magazine program remains passionately committed to teaching our students to become creative, quirky, informative and entertaining writers,  and curious, thorough and insightful reporters, a combination of skills that will always be in demand.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Applications are due by January 4th for students seeking to enroll the following September. Late applications will be considered if space is available.