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Our annual spring career expo is the largest journalism job fair in the nation! More than 300 editors, producers and hiring managers representing about 150 companies attend the expo. They seek candidates for full-time jobs, internships, fellowships, and freelance positions.

Our Career Services sta�—all former journalists with strong industry connections in print, broadcast, and digital media—work closely with you to help you pursue the most meaningful jobs and internships in the U.S. and abroad.

Additionally, as an alumnus, you’ll have access to our extensive alumni network of unparalleled contacts in all areas of journalism.

journalism.columbia.edu/careers

• ABC News

• AFP

• Arctic Today

• Atlantic

• Axios

• Barrons

• BBC

• Bloomberg

• Boynton Films

• Brightwire

• Business Insider

• CannabisWire

• CBS News

• Clarin

• CNBC

• CNN

• CoinDesk

• Colorlines

• Columbia Journalism Review

• Columbia Journalism School

• Columbus DIspatch

• Conde Nast

• CTV

• Danish Broadcasting Co

• Defense News

• Detroit Free Press

• Divided Films

• Fairfax Media

• Fatherly

• Financial Planning Magazine

• Forbes

• Fox Sports

• Frontline

• Gastro Obscura

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• Grin

• Hechinger Report

• Helsingin Sanomat

• i24News

• Inverse

• McClatchy

• Miami New Times

• Mic

• Modern Wall Street

• Mother Jones

• MSNBC

• Ñan magazine

• Nation Media Group

• NBC

• New York Post

• New York Review of Books

• Newsday

• NowThisNews

• NPR

• Oath

• Particle 6 Productions

• Patch

• Philadelphia Media Network

• Phoenix Network

• Portland Business Journal

• Quant Media

• Quartz

• Questex Media

• Radio24syv

• Real Deal

• Reuters

• Reuters Institute@Oxford fellowship

• Rhode Island Public Radio

• Rockefeller University

• South China Morning Post

• Splinter

• Sports Illustrated

• The Associated Press

• The Bellingham Herald

• The Center for Public Integrity

• The Conversation

• The Daily Dot

• The Intercept

• The Marshall Project

• The Miami Herald

• The Miami Herald / El Nuevo Herald

• The New York Times

• The Trace

• The Wall Street Journal

• The Washington Post

• USA Today

• Viacom

• VICE

• WBOC-TV

• WCBS

• WCIA-TV

• Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Career services

of MA and MS graduates (excluding the Knight-Bagehot Fellows) begin internships, full-time and part-time jobs, continue in another academic degree program, freelance or take a non-journalism job following graduation.

74%

By the numbers

Countries represented2018–2019

On the front: This stained glass window is a relic of Pulitzer’s World Building. It now adorns Columbia Journalism School’s World Room where the Pulitzer Prizes are announced each year.

TOTAL ANTICIPATED NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT 2018-2019

190Master of Science (full-time)

34Master of Science (part-time)

10Master of Science in Data Journalism

7Master of Science Dual Degree with Computer Science

40Master of Arts

4Doctor of Philosophy

DEMOGRAPHICS (FULL-TIME)International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41%Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70%Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30%

34% of U.S. citizens and permanent residents

identify as a student of color.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

The Columbia Journalism School is committed to creating and supporting a community that is diverse in every way. We o�er a curriculum as pluralistic and polyphonic as

New York itself, and a community of scholars who embody this commitment to open discussion and debate. Diversity is one of the things that makes the Journalism School vibrant and exciting, and our students find a setting that allows them to explore diversity in a variety of ways, at a university that prides itself on serious intellectual inquiry and the exploration of diverse ideas. This is the transformative power of diversity in education: its ability to enrich the individual as it enriches the community and society as a whole.

WHERE TO APPLY

Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway (at 116 Street) New York, NY 10027

Admissions O�ce 212-854-8608 apply.journalism@columbia.edu

@columbiajourn

journalism.columbia.edu

journalism.columbia.edu/admissionsWhere our grads get jobs

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRIA

BANGLADESH

BELARUS

BELGIUM

BRAZIL

CANADA

CHILE

CHINA

FINLAND

FRANCE

GERMANY

GREECE

HONG KONG S.A.R.

INDIA

INDONESIA

IRAN

IRELAND

ISRAEL

ITALY

KAZAKHSTAN

KENYA

KYRGYZSTAN

LEBANON

MEXICO

NETHERLANDS

NEW ZEALAND

NIGERIA

PAKISTAN

PANAMA

PERU

PHILIPPINES

SAUDI ARABIA

SINGAPORE

SLOVAKIA

SOUTH KOREA

SPAIN

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TAIWAN

TURKEY

UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED STATES

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MASTER OF SCIENCE

Hands-on training across all media platforms

Interview-based reporting modules focusing on deadline writing to data vi-sualization and from digital media to broadcast skills

Appropriate for graduating undergraduate students, career changers, and current journalists seeking additional training or to learn new platforms

Specializations available in investigative reporting and documentary filmmaking

Dual degree programs in Law, Business, Religion and International and Public Affairs

International degree programs with Sciences Po in Paris and University of Witwatersrand in Johan-nesburg

Enroll full- or part-time (10 months or 2 years)

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DATA JOURNALISM

Appropriate for current and aspiring journalists who want to use data and technology as a tool to complement journalistic skills

Equips students with a toolkit to collect, process and analyze data to find relevant stories across all fields and platforms

Emphasis on innovation, teamwork and collabora-tion with a global mindset

Only academic institution with publishing partner-ships with journalism networks in the U.S. and overseas

3 semesters (full-time only)

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM

Collaboration between the Engineering and Journal-ism schools

Highly-specialized training in the digital environment including computer-sup-ported news gathering and digital media production

Applicants must have a background in computer science, math, or engineer-ing, have excellent writing skills, and be familiar with fundamentals of reporting

4 semesters

MASTER OF ARTS

Designed for journalists with 3-15 years of profes-sional experience

Equips students with sub-ject-area expertise

Provides an intellectual grounding in your field to be able to produce sophis-ticated, nuanced stories

Concentrations available in Arts & Culture, Business & Economics, Politics or Science

9 months (full-time only)

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COMMUNICATIONS

Study the relationships between people and the media

Craft a multidisciplinary, individualized course of study in the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts

Prepare for a career teach-ing in higher education, conducting research, or carrying out policy work in government or industry

Typically complete your degree in 5-7 years

Life at Columbia

BROWN INSTITUTE

Thanks to the largest gift in its history, Columbia Journalism School’s historic Pulitzer Hall became the home of the groundbreaking and bicoastal David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation in 2014. Working with Stanford University’s Engineering School, the goal is to encourage and support new endeavors in media innovation using competitive grants to seed promising projects. The Brown Institute, with its high tech newsroom, cultivates working relationships with top business leaders and media companies. brown.columbia.edu

TOW CENTER

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism offers students the skills, experience, and knowl-edge to become leaders in digital journalism and also serves as a research and develop-ment center for the profession as a whole. The Center explores how the development of technology is changing journalism, its practice and its consumption—particularly as consumers of news seek ways to judge the reliability, standards, and credibility of information. It also devises and publicizes innovative methods of digital reporting and presentation of both established media companies and new startups. towcenter.org

DART CENTER

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, dedicated to informed, innovative, and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict, and tragedy, provides training and resources for journalists and news organizations worldwide. The Dart Center offers fellowships to distinguished mid-career journalists and provides a forum to analyze issues and share knowledge on reporting violence and tragedy. The annual Dart Awards recognize exemplary reporting on the impact of violence, crime, disaster, and other traumatic events. dartcenter.org

FACULTY

Learn from award-winning journalists

Faculty hold specializations in dozens of areas

Average class size: 16 students

Receive one-on-one mentoring

Meet our faculty: journalism.columbia.edu/faculty

STUDENTS

Our students get published by media outlets in NYC and beyond

Nearly all our students graduate with a portfolio of clips

Paid, post-graduate international fellowships and grants available

See the work our students produce: journalism.columbia.edu/student-work

Columbia doesn’t just teach students what they don’t know—it discovers and creates knowledge for our changing world. Columbia journalists learn how to uncover, analyze, and explain the stories of our time—and to create the first draft of history.

At Columbia and in the kaleidoscopic metropolis that is New York City, you truly become a citizen of the world—with friends and connections on campus, across the city, and around the globe.

For 100 years (and counting), Columbia has led the way to journalism’s future.You believe that knowledge is power. You are curious, open-minded, and like to write. You seek a life that is fast-paced and exciting. Your passion about the world and commitment to the truth have given you the determination to make a difference and raise awareness of what’s happening around the world each day. If journalism is your calling, answer it at Columbia.

Academic programsNo matter who you are, what you want to cover, or how you want to report on it, one of Columbia Journalism School’s carefully designed academic programs will take you anywhere you want to go.

MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM

The prestigious, nine-month Master of Arts program is for people who can demonstrate proficiency in the essential skills of journalism: effective reporting and clear writing. Unlike the Master of Science program, which focuses on teaching reporting and writing, the M.A. is designed for experienced journalists who are eager to immerse themselves in a specific area of study and to be mentored by journalists who are the among the most accomplished in the world. Successful applicants usually have between three and fifteen years of professional journalism experience.

MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM

The M.S. program is the cornerstone of the Journalism School. It offers aspiring and experienced journalists the opportunity to study the skills, the art and the ethics of journalism by reporting and writing stories ranging from short news pieces to complex narrative features. Students acquire a core set of sophisticated newsgathering skills that will emphasize in-person, interview-based reporting as well as other means of acquiring and assessing information. Coursework focuses on topics ranging from deadline newswriting to interactive graphics, from multimedia to video and data skills.

M.A. or M.S.? Which program is right for you?

journalism.columbia.edu/programs

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