Critical perspectives on the arts, mass media and social issues.


CRC Jobs

The CRC program teaches students to work in a variety of genres—including the review, the critical essay, the profile, the op/ed commentary, the long-form reported piece, and the book. Below is a list of selected publications where our graduates work and have published, along with a list of their book projects.

Publications and institutions where CRC graduates are currently working, or have worked:

  • ArtNews
  • BBC News Online
  • Billboard
  • Bust
  • Chili Pepper
  • Congressional Quarterly
  • Domino
  • Elle
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Marketplace (NPR)
  • The Nation
  • The New America Foundation
  • New York
  • The New York Post
  • The New York Review of Books
  • The New York Sun
  • The New York Times
  • The New York Times Magazine
  • Newsweek
  • Nextbook
  • NPR, local affiliates
  • The Museum of the Moving Image
  • Radar
  • Salon
  • The San Francisco Examiner
  • Saveur
  • Spin
  • Studio 360 (NPR)
  • The Village Voice
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • washingtonpost.com

CRC alumni have freelanced for the following publications, among others:

  • The Atlantic Monthly
  • Bookforum
  • The Boston Globe, Ideas Section
  • The Brooklyn Rail
  • Bust
  • Elle
  • The Forward
  • Go!
  • The Guardian
  • Heeb
  • The Huffington Post
  • N+1
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • The New York Observer
  • The New York Times
  • The New York Sun
  • Paste
  • PopMatters
  • Radar
  • Salon
  • Slate
  • Time
  • TimeOut New York
  • The Times (of London)
  • The Village Voice
  • The Washington Post

Book projects from CRC graduates:

  • Alumna Lauren Sandler published Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, with Viking in the fall of 2006.
  • Alumnus Dennis Lim is working on a biography of the filmmaker David Lynch for John Wiley & Sons, to be published in 2008.
  • Alumna Meline Toumani is at work on her first book, a nonfiction narrative work about diasporas, nationalism, and historiography. She will examine the way that Armenians and Turks throughout the world cling to clashing stories about the massacres that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire. Her book will be published by Random House in 2009.
  • Alumnus James Westcott is working on a critical biography of the performance artist Marina Abramovic, to be published by MIT Press in early 2010.
  • CRC student Thomas Chatterton Williams is working on a book about growing up black in the age of hip-hop. It will be published by The Penguin Press in 2010.

Internships

Internships enable students to gain real-world experience, learn new skills, and make contacts in the magazine, newspapers and publishing world. Should they wish to intern, either during the summer or in the second or third semester, Cultural Reporting and Criticism students have an array of publications to choose from.

Internships are facilitated with the help of the journalism department's career services office, or through our network of CRC alumni.

In recent years, Cultural Reporting and Criticism students have interned at, among many others:

  • Art News
  • Artforum
  • The Atlantic Monthly
  • Book
  • City Limits
  • Cleveland Free Times
  • CMJ New Music Monthly
  • Correspondence Magazine
  • Details
  • Gear
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • The Independent
  • N+1
  • The Nation
  • New York
  • The New Yorker
  • Newsday
  • newyorkmetro.com
  • Next Book
  • NPR Studio 360
  • Psychology Today
  • Radar
  • Salon
  • Spin
  • Surface
  • The Village Voice
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Women's Enews
  
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