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About
About
The Master of Arts in Journalism degree at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is an intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.Learn More →
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Academics
Academics
The course of study for the M.A. in Journalism degree is challenging and requires full-time attendance. Students complete 45 units of course work in three semesters, participate in a comprehensive summer internship, and produce a substantial final or capstone project.Learn More →
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Admissions
Our goal is to attract a diverse group of the highest caliber aspiring journalists to our Master of Arts in Journalism program, then to guide and support them every step of the way, from application through graduation and beyond.Learn More →
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Career Services
The Career Services Office will work with you from the beginning of your time here to the day of graduation -- and beyond. (We’re available to help alums, too.) Among other things, we review resumes, weigh in on cover letters, brainstorm with you about internship and employment choices...Learn More →
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Research Center
Research Center
The CUNY J-School Research Center is dedicated to providing students and faculty with the latest research training, tools and resources for journalists.Learn More →
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The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism depends on privately raised funds for the scholarships and academic enhancements that will ensure its success as a top-flight graduate program. Learn More →
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Rebecca Harshbarger
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The buses going upcountry in Uganda are bright, advertisement-covered spectacles that rattle through landscapes of cassava, banana and coffee farms. When they stop for a moment, hindered by traffic, wandering livestock or passengers seeking a bathroom break, people who live in the small towns and villages along the road run to the side of the [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: A Journey into Uganda’s Deadly Malaria Zone 3 years, 11 months ago · View
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James Surowiecki , who writes a New Yorker business and finance column, compares the newspaper industry to the railroad industry at the turn of the twentieth century in a new piece called “News You Can Lose.” Some believe that the railroad industry began to have serious problems in the 1900s because it thought it was in [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: News for News Companies: Railroads, Politico/Reuters, and NYT Wage Freeze 4 years, 5 months ago · View
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Washington Post CEO Don Graham made news late last week by agreeing to join Facebook’s board of directors , a symbolic gesture in some sense of a convergence between old and new media . However, The Post is not necessarily Old Media, with its Slate, Big Money, and the Root properties, as well as the WP and Newsweek websites, [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: Friend Request to Mark Zuckerberg: Post CEO Don Graham 4 years, 5 months ago · View
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Yesterday, Wash Po.-owned Newsweek announced a series of changes it will be launching in February. The changes are not just minor tweaks for their publications, but a major shift in philosophy. Newsweek now plans to change the way it delivers its content, emphasizing the web more and its print version less, and might also distribute content through phones. [...] -
The Typepad Journalist Bailout Program has been grabbing the attention of both bloggers and reporters at major news organizaitons. Naturally, I was intrigued. As in, a bailout for journalists? And, by Typepad? Well, kind of. Except, of course, it’s a bailout minus the billions of public dollars. This new media biz gives journalists and bloggers who recently lost their [...] -
I could only catch part of this meeting, due to being in class all day, but everyone seems anxious. Jim Willse, from the Star Ledger, announced that the paper would be cutting 40% of its staff by the end of the year, and everyone wanted to talk about advertising revenue. So much of newspapers’ costs [...]
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You would think that as far as timing goes, no other business news site could have been lucky enough to launch than four weeks ago, when Slate’s spin-off site Big Money hit the web during the collapse of Lehman. However, Big Money editor James Ledbetter feels that the timing has actually been more harmful than [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: Roller-coaster Month for New Biz Site 4 years, 7 months ago · View
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For months, Christopher Zambakari has watched online as the U.S. dollar’s value declined – especially its relation to the Ugandan shilling. A 22-year-old foreign student living in Manhattan, Zambakari and his mother regularly wire money to Uganda to support 15 relatives there. And while his classmates at the European School of Economics in Midtown rejoice at the strength [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: Weak Dollar Hurts Family Abroad 5 years, 1 month ago · View
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“Peck Moss Group.†“Brack Capital.†“For Sale.†These are some of the signs — and new neighbors — that have been popping up along the Bowery, dismaying local residents, as a new boutique hotel district is burgeoning in a neighborhood rich with history. While college students and tourists flock to the Bowery’s new nightlife attractions, [...]
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Vote aqui! Blue and red diamond-shaped signs in Korean, Spanish, English and Chinese urged residents to vote at the Saint Sebastian Parish polling station in Woodside, Queens. The posters also were outside the Charles O. Dewey School in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, as well as hundred of other polling sites throughout the five boroughs, signs of [...]
Rebecca Harshbarger wrote a new blog post: A Vote Counts in Any Language 5 years, 3 months ago · View
