Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University

Journalism

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The Journalism Institute's undergraduate track in Journalism prepares its students to think, research, report and write as journalists who aspire to the highest levels of the profession in whatever subject areas they ultimately embrace. It places heavy emphasis on understanding the significance of the journalist’s role as an ethically grounded purveyor of news and insight and provides repeated opportunities to learn from the best through the close reading of seminal works in the field and equally close editing of student work.

At the same time, the program cultivates a passion for news and for the responsibilities involved in its coverage. It develops the student’s ability to research and report, to generate fresh story ideas and approaches to the coverage of all manner of subjects, and to work diligently at mastering story structure across media, both for work in immediate and longer-range deadline formats.

The Program

Within the Journalism concentration, students choose either the Print/Online sequence or the Broadcast sequence.

In a reflection of the changing media landscape, and to prepare students to work across media platforms, the sequences differ in only the second- and third-level skills courses. (See the full curriculum.)

Elective offerings appear in a wide variety of categories: Journalism and Society, Journalism as Literature, Issues and Ideas, Methods and Practice, Visual Reporting, Elective Reporting Topics, Media Criticism, Production and Publication.

We also offer Credit Internships and opportunities for Advanced Individualized Study.

Journalism Bylines

Faculty

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    Jennifer Bleyer
    Jennifer Bleyer is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Cosmopolitan, Babble, The Progressive, The Christian Science Monitor, Monocle, Time Out New York Kids, The Forward, Tablet, New York Magazine, Alternet and other publications.

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    Farai Chideya
    Farai Chideya is an award-winning journalist and professor who has worked in print, television, radio, and digital media. Over the years, Chideya was a producer for MTV News; an on-air political analyst for CNN; a reporter and guest host at...

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    Barbara Fairchild
    Barbara Fairchild is a freelance food and travel writer, editor, public speaker, radio personality, and consultant. She was for ten years the editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit magazine, based in Los Angeles.

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    Nancy Han
    Nancy Han was named executive producer of ABC News NOW in June of 2008. In that position,she oversees the editorial content and production of ABC News' 24-hour digital network, whichis available to 42 million subscribers across broadband, cable and mobile...

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    Joscelyn Jurich
    Joscelyn Jurich is a freelance journalist and critic. Her reporting and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Bookforum, The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly and numerous other publications.

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    Theodore Ross
    Theodore Ross' writing has appeared in the pages (print and electronic) of the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, Saveur, Tin House, Tablet, The Morning News, and elsewhere.

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    Maria Sliwa
    Maria Sliwa is known for her reporting on human rights. As a press agent for the Sudan Campaign, she played a major role in publicizing the genocide, slavery and rape of civilians in Sudan and Darfur.

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    Mitchell Stephens
    Mitchell Stephens is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His latest book, the rise of the...