The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of the professional graduate schools of Columbia University. Located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, it is the only journalism school in the Ivy League and one of the oldest in the United States and the world. The school was founded by Joseph Pulitzer in 1912, and offers Master of Science and Master of Arts degrees in journalism as well as a Ph.D. in communications.
In addition to graduate degree programs, the Journalism School administers several prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the DuPont-Columbia Award. It also co-sponsors the National Magazine Award and publishes the Columbia Journalism Review, essentially a trade publication for journalists.
A faculty of experienced journalists with varying specialtiesâ€"including politics, arts and culture, religion, science, education, business and economics, investigative reporting, national and international affairsâ€"instruct Journalism School students. Faculty members are preeminent in their fields, and many have won numerous journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred I. duPontâ€"Columbia Award, the National Magazine Award, and the National Book Award.
History
The Journalism School was founded with a bequest from Joseph Pulitzer. In 1892, Pulitzer offered Columbia University's president, Seth Low, money to set up the world's first school of journalism. The university initially turned down the money. Low's successor, Nicholas Murray Butler was more receptive to the plan, however.
It took the university many years to act on Pulitzer's $2 million gift and pitch for a journalism school. Classes began on September 30, 1912, with a student body of about 100 undergraduate and graduate students from 21 countries. The building was still under construction at the time.
In 1935 Dean Carl Ackerman led the school's transition to become the first graduate school of journalism in the United States. Classes of 60 students dug up stories in New York City during the day and drafted articles in a single, large newsroom in the journalism school at night.
Academic programs
Columbia Journalism School's ten-month master of science program 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. Students choose from one of four specializations: newspaper, magazine, broadcast, or new media. Some students interested in investigative reporting are part of Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, a sub-specialization of the M.S. program. The M.S. program is also offered on a part-time basis.
The school also offers dual-degree programs in collaboration with other schools at Columbia: Journalism and Computer Science; Journalism and Law; Journalism and Business; Journalism and Religion; Journalism and International and Public Affairs; and Journalism and Earth and Environmental Science. The school also offers dual-degree programs with Sciences Po in Paris and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The nine-month master of arts program is for experienced journalists interested in focusing on a particular subject area: politics, science, business, or the arts. M.A. students work closely with Journalism School professors as well as professors from other academic departments at Columbia. The program is full-time.
The Ph.D. program draws upon the resources of Columbia University in a multidisciplinary approach to the study of communications. Students craft individual courses of study from the departments and divisions at the University, including Journalism, Political Science and Sociology, the professional schools of Business and Law, and Teachers College.
Journalism awards
The Journalism School administers many professional awards, a tradition that Joseph Pulitzer began when he established the school and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia.
The Journalism School administers the Pulitzer Prizes; Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award; National Magazine Awards; The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes; John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism; Lukas Prize Project; John B. Oakes Awards; Mike Berger Award; and the Paul Tobenkin Award for Race Reporting.
School administration
- Steve Coll, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism
Faculty
- Helen Benedict, professor
- Nina Berman, associate professor
- Sheila Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism
- John Dinges, Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism
- Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism
- Samuel G. Freedman, professor
- Howard W. French, associate professor
- Ari L. Goldman, professor
- Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes
- Todd Gitlin, professor and chair, PhD program
- David Hajdu, associate professor
- LynNell Hancock, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism
- Richard R. John, professor
- Nicholas Lemann, professor; Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism
- Sylvia Nasar, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism
- Victor Navasky, George T. Delacorte, Jr. Professor in Magazine Journalism
- Mirta Ojito, assistant professor
- Michael Schudson, professor
- James B. Stewart, Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism
- Alexander Stille, San Paolo Professor of International Journalism
- Jonathan Weiner, Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism
Notable alumni
See also
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Alfred I. duPontâ€"Columbia University Award
- Pulitzer Prize
References
Further reading
- CJS alumnus Michael Lewis, Senior Editor (July 1993). "J-school Ate My Brain". The New Republic. p. 5.Â
External links
- Columbia Journalism School website
- Columbia Journalism Review website
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