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You believe that knowledge is
power. You are curious, openminded,
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.

For 100 years (and counting)
Columbia has led the way to
journalism’s future.
Uniquely positioned at the center of America’s news
industry and at one of the world’s finest universities,
the Graduate School of Journalism is a one-of-a-kind
place where Ivy League academics converge with the
rich diversity of America’s greatest city.
The World
New York City
Academic Heritage
Columbia University
Columbia J School
Diversity
Professional Community
Innovation
Ivy League
Technology

Origins of Excellence
Our academic heritage
Columbia Journalism School welcomes
students from more than 40 countries to the
Columbia University campus in New York
City every year. We are proud to provide the
foundation and opportunity for our students
to succeed, to become leaders in the industry,
and to shape the future of journalism.
A solid foundation
Our curriculum covers the bedrock values of journalistic
excellence and innovation, ensuring that you will be trained
to thrive in the rapidly changing world of digital media.
The courses we offer are unsurpassed in quality and
the breadth of subjects they cover. We offer four degree
programs to accommodate different needs and interests.
A century of leadership
For one hundred years, the Journalism School has
championed Joseph Pulitzer’s vision of the press as an
indispensable bulwark of democracy. We recently
launched thenewyorkworld.com, an accountability
journalism outlet named after Pulitzer’s pioneering paper.
Founder Joseph Pulitzer
Ten years after Joseph Pulitzer first
proposed a world-class journalism
school at Columbia, classes began
on September 30, 1912. Seventy-nine
undergraduate and graduate students
enrolled, including a dozen women.
Classes convened at several locations
around campus until the Journalism
building opened in 1913, and in 1917
the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.
Upholding Pulitzer’s Legacy
“A journalist is the lookout on the
bridge of the ship of state,” Joseph
Pulitzer wrote. “The power to mould
the future of the Republic will be in
the hands of the journalists of future
generations.” As the Journalism
School moves forward, embracing the
challenges and opportunities of the
21st century, Pulitzer’s legacy endures.
Under the leadership of Dean Nicholas
Lemann and a distinguished faculty,
the Journalism School continues
to educate top journalists, uphold
standards of excellence for the
profession as a whole, and guide the
press to strive for the public good.
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.
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Like the city it calls home,
Columbia Journalism School
never sleeps. There is
always a flow of students,
faculty, alumni, and
distinguished guests.
At Columbia, innovators
and global thought leaders
are always on campus.
Learn from the best
James Stewart—Bloomberg
Professor of Business Journalism,
New York Times columnist, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
several bestsellers—works closely
with students in the M.A. program.
Enduring
connections
Forging bonds
Collaborating closely on a wide
variety of projects, students
establish connections that
enhance their careers and develop
friendships that last a lifetime.
Students
Our students come from a wide
range of backgrounds, some with
considerable journalism experience
and some with none. They are
teachers, lawyers, doctors, military
officers, engineers, athletes,
playwrights, artists, business
people, scientists, accountants,
photographers, authors, farmers,
designers and more. What our
students share with each other
and with our faculty is a passion
for journalism and the talent to
excel. Columbia is the only Ivy
League school of journalism, and
students here have access to the
resources of one of the world’s
great universities.
Faculty
Our faculty consists of nationally
recognized journalists with
specialties that include politics,
arts and culture, religion,
science, education, business and
economics, investigative reporting,
and national and international
affairs. They have won numerous
journalism awards, including the
Pulitzer Prize, the Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Alfred I. duPont-
Columbia University Award, the
News & Documentary Emmy Award,
the National Magazine Award, and
the National Book Award. Because
our classes are small by design,
students have the opportunity to
work closely with each professor,
receiving one-on-one mentoring
inside and outside the classroom
on writing, reporting, and research.
Alumni
Our alumni can be found at
prestigious news organizations
around the world, where they
are active in every phase of
making the news. From reporting
to photography, from editing to
producing, and from publishing
to digital innovation, Columbia
journalists do it all. In addition
to the relationships they forge as
students, alumni have access to
our extensive alumni network of
unparalleled contacts in all areas
of journalism. And they are always
welcome at Pulitzer Hall.

Academic programs
we work
everywhere:
• ABC News
• The Denver Post
• msnbc.com
• Slate
• Agence France-Presse
• Detroit Free Press
• National Public Radio
• South China Morning Post
• Aspen Magazine
• The Economist Group
• NBC News
• Sports Illustrated
• Associated Press
• Financial Times
• Newsweek / The Daily Beast
• thestreet.com
• The Atavist
• Forbes
• New York Daily News
• Time
• Atlantic Media
• Fortune
• New York
• The Village Voice
• Barron’s
• GlobalPost
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• Bloomberg News
• The Huffington Post
• patch.com / AOL News
• The Wall Street Journal
• bostonglobe.com
• KQED (San Francisco)
• PBS NewsHour
• Univision
• CBS News
• Los Angeles Times
• ProPublica
• Wired
• CNN
• mashable.com
• Reuters
• Chicago Tribune
• The Miami Herald
• Sacramento Bee
• Condé Nast
• Money
• Scientific American

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.
Mastering your craft
Students hone their
skills with accomplished
journalists like Professor
LynNell Hancock and with
their close-knit classes of
rising talent.

Academic programs
No 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 Science
The 10-month M.S. program 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. With New York City as their laboratory, students learn
how to think critically and deeply, and to be both ethical and street smart. During the year, you will
acquire a core set of sophisticated newsgathering skills that emphasize in-person, interview-based
reporting as well as other means of acquiring and assessing information. You’ll take a course from
each of three modules: The Written Word; Image and Sound; and Audience and Engagement. These
courses focus on topics ranging from deadline newswriting to interactive graphics, from social
media to video skills. During the year, you will complete a long form master’s project, as well as
take core classes in law, ethics, history and the business of journalism.
Applicants interested in investigative reporting may apply to the Stabile Center for Investigative
Journalism, a sub-specialization within the M.S. program. We also offer dual degree programs with
the schools of engineering, business, law, international and public affairs, and the religion program
at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. You may also consider our international dual degree
programs with Sciences Po in Paris and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Students
may also enroll in the M.S. program in Journalism on a part- or a full-time basis.
Application
deadlines
december 3
Master of Science
international dual-degree
programs
• With Sciences Po, Paris
• With University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
december 17
Master of Science
Master of Science
dual-degree programs
• Journalism and Law
• Journalism and Business
• Journalism and Religion
• Journalism and International
and Public Affairs
Ph.D. in Communications
January 15
Master of Science
in Computer Science
and Journalism
Master of Arts

Making the news
From field reporting to
broadcasting on air to the
latest in digital production,
Columbia students are
immersed in every element
of today’s journalistic world.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS
Our continuing education seminars,
executive education, and fellowships offer
opportunities for experienced practitioners
and media executives to advance their
knowledge and expertise. These include:
• Punch Sulzberger Program
for executive leadership
sulzbergerprogram.org
• The Spencer Fellowship for
Education Reporting
www.journalism.columbia.edu/spencer
• The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship
www.journalism.columbia.edu/
knight-bagehot
• Columbia Publishing Course
www.journalism.columbia.edu/publishing
Master of Arts
The 9-month M.A. program is for experienced
journalists who would like to deepen their
knowledge of one of four subject areas:
politics, arts and culture, science, or business.
The program is designed to impart the skills
and habits of reflection that will enable you to
cover complicated issues in a sophisticated,
nuanced manner. You will develop the
knowledge and confidence to ask more
informed questions, to situate news events
in their larger context, and to evaluate
competing claims made by sources. Since
M.A. students already know how to report
and write well, we challenge you to raise your
game, and specifically to create new ways
of telling stories that are informed by deep
understanding of complex subjects. You read
heavily and you work closely with Journalism
School professors as well as professors from
other academic departments at the University.
The primary journalistic work of the year is the
master’s thesis, which is an ambitious piece
of long form journalism. The M.A. program
is available full time only and runs from late
August into May.
Master of Science in Computer
Science and Journalism
This innovative program, which accepted its
first students in 2011, offers dual Master of
Science degrees in computer science and
journalism. A close collaboration between
the Engineering and Journalism schools, the
program uses the content of one discipline
to inform the execution of the other, providing
unique and highly specialized training in
the digital environment including technical
and editorial skills in many aspects of
computer-supported news gathering and
digital media production. The goal is not
only to impart expertise in today’s digital
news realm, but also to equip graduates to
refine and create new news gathering and
digital media technologies that will redefine
journalism as we know it. You enroll in classes,
including seminars and workshops, at both
the Journalism and Engineering schools for a
total of four semesters. Applicants must have
academic backgrounds in computer science
or in mathematics and engineering, have
excellent writing skills and be familiar with
the fundamentals of reporting.
Doctor of Philosophy in
Communications
The Ph.D. in Communications offers a
multidisciplinary approach to the study of
the relationships between people and media
in their cultural, social, political, historical,
economic, and technological contexts. With
the guidance of a faculty advisory committee
drawn from the Journalism School, the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the
School of International and Public Affairs,
the Business School, and Teachers College,
you craft individual courses of study drawing
upon the university’s graduate resources
in the humanities, the social and practical
sciences, the arts, and the professional
schools. The goal is to connect the strengths
of the Columbia journalism tradition with
the outstanding intellectual work in the
humanities and human sciences elsewhere
at the university in a way that enhances our
understanding of media and journalism in
society. The interdisciplinary program provides
a unique preparation for students who wish
to teach in colleges and universities, to
conduct original research in communications,
or to carry out policy or research work in
government and industry.

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.
Life at Columbia
and in NYC
NYC is Unparalleled
• New York is the ‘capital of the world’
for media, journalism, and just about
everything else—including the arts,
finance and international politics.
• Eight million people live in the City of
New York. Nearly 200 languages are
spoken daily, and there are dozens of
unique ethnic communities throughout
the city’s five boroughs.
• Morningside Heights, Columbia’s
home neighborhood, boasts an
impressive array of academic institutions
situated in the heart of Upper
Manhattan near historic Harlem,
Central Park and Riverside Park.
• New York’s famous 24/7 subway
system has a stop right outside
Columbia’s gates at 116th Street.
At school and on the beat
Student life at the Journalism School incorporates more than just
course work. Our students study journalism through covering the
intricate and diverse neighborhoods of New York City, with close
guidance and mentoring from their professors. Students form
intense bonds during their time at the School and often develop
lifelong friendships with fellow students as well as with faculty.
Every week, our students are invited to attend and participate in
lectures, workshops, conferences, and receptions with leaders
in journalism who visit the School. The student government is
run through the University chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists, the world’s largest journalism organization. Student
officers organize events throughout the year, including field trips,
panels, and community service projects.
Resources
The Stabile Student Center, completed in 2008, is the Journalism
School’s social hub, with a café, computer work stations, teaching
labs, conference rooms, and the school library. Technical resources
at the School include more than 150 multi-media computers in
labs, edit suites, and social areas; the Roone Arledge broadcast
studio; a radio studio, and an equipment room housing hundreds
of media production kits for photography, audio, video, and digital
media. Computer labs offer Apple operating systems and media
software suites such as Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Creative
Suite Premium. Students also gain access to the university’s worldrenowned
library and other technological offerings, along with
guidance from highly-trained university staff.
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Student work
Our students publish their work in a rich array of platforms
throughout their time at the Journalism School, including
columbiajournalist.org, the online student publication portal of
the school; thebrooklynink.com and bronxink.org, online news
sites dedicated to coverage of those boroughs; Columbia News
Service, a wire service that publishes student features in dailies
around the country through The New York Times News Service;
“Columbia News Tonight,” the weekly spring television newscast
produced by our students; and the digital media workshops,
combining traditional reporting and writing skills with the best of
online journalism. Opportunities also arise each year to publish
work in a variety of special projects devoted to exploring particular
issues or communities, especially those traditionally underserved
by the news media. And, many students land their reporting in
other publications, in New York City and beyond.
Career services
Our Career Services staff—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. Students are invited to meet
with a Career Services counselor for one-on-one consultations
during the school year and are encouraged to attend weekly panels
and workshops with guest editors and job-hunting strategy sessions
hosted at the School. Our annual spring career expo is the biggest
journalism job fair in the nation. This year, more than 200 recruiters
and editors from 111 news organizations attended. The companies
sought candidates for more than 250 full-time jobs, internships,
fellowships and freelance positions. Our dynamic proprietary
website, accessible only to Columbia students and alumni, includes
guides, audio archives from past speakers, tips about job hunting,
employer profiles, and a jobs database that is updated daily.

By the numbers
TOTAL ANTICIPATED STUDENT
ENROLLMENT 2012–2013
272
Master of Science (full time)
80
Master of Science (part time)
9Master of Science Dual Degree
with Computer Science
59
Master of Arts
32
Doctor of Philosophy
DEMOGRAPHICS (FULL TIME)
International Students.... 32%
Female.................. 67%
Male.................... 33%
Average Age............... 27
AMONG AMERICAN STUDENTS
Asian American.......... 12%
Black/African American... 12%
Latino/Hispanic........... 9%
White/Caucasian......... 22%
Other.................... 1%
Unreported.............. 44%
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL-TIME
STUDY 2012–2013
Master of Science
Applicants................816
Admits................... 401
Expected to Enroll.........272
Master of Arts
Applicants............... 228
Admits....................69
Expected to Enroll.......... 59
Doctor of Philosophy
Applicants.................83
Admits..................... 4
Expected to Enroll........... 4
ALUMNI
10,506
Total Living Alumni
1,126
Alumni Living Overseas
COST OF ATTENDANCE
2012–2013
Master of Science
Tuition.............. $49,432
Fees.................. $5,914
Living................$25,876
TOTAL...............$81,222
Master of Science in Computer
Science and Journalism
Tuition.............. $46,480
Fees.................. $5,914
Living................$25,876
TOTAL...............$78,270
Master of Arts / Ph.D.
Tuition.............. $44,992
Fees.................. $5,914
Living............... $23,466
TOTAL............... $74,372
ANTICIPATED SCHOLARSHIP /
FELLOWSHIP FUNDING 2012–2013
Master of Science
$1,816,242
67% of those who applied for
scholarship aid received funding.
range of awards
$363 – $62,144
average award
$11,094
Master of Science in Computer
Science and Journalism
$261,325
100% of those who applied for
scholarship aid received funding.
range of awards
$36,438 – $56,514
average award
$35,060
Master of Arts
$1,615,053
94% of those who applied for
scholarship aid received funding.
range of awards
$3,036 – $74,572
average award
$31,668
Doctor of Philosophy
All entering doctoral students receive
funding. They normally receive a tuition
waiver for the first two or three years of
course work, a stipend for the first three
years of study, and medical coverage
for several years of their studies. They
are also eligible for research or teaching
assistantships.
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COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
2012–2013
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BAHRAIN
BOSNIA &
HERZEGOVINA
BRAZIL
CANADA
CHILE
CHINA
COLOMBIA
DENMARK
FRANCE
GERMANY
GHANA
GREECE
HAITI
INDIA
IRELAND
ISRAEL
ITALY
JAPAN
KENYA
MEXICO
NEPAL
NIGERIA
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
POLAND
SINGAPORE
SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH KOREA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
TAIWAN
TRINIDAD &
TOBAGO
TURKEY
UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
UNITED
KINGDOM
Commitment to Diversity
The Graduate School of Journalism is committed
to creating and supporting a community that is
diverse in every way. We offer 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.
Journalism Awards
The Journalism School administers many professional awards to uphold standards
of excellence in the media, a tradition that Joseph Pulitzer began when he established
the school and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia.
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Pulitzer Prizes
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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Awards for Broadcast
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National Magazine Award
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The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes
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John B. Oakes Awards
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John Chancellor Award for
Excellence in Journalism
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Lukas Prize Project
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Mike Berger Award
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Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award
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. dartcenter.org
David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute
for Media Innovation
Thanks to the largest gift in its history, Columbia Journalism School will
soon be home to the groundbreaking and bicoastal new David and Helen
Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Under the leadership of
newly appointed director, Mark Hansen, faculty, fellows and researchers
at the Institute will work closely with colleagues at Stanford University's
Engineering School. Their goal is to foster journalistic innovation and
use competitive grants to seed promising projects, while the J-School's
historic Pulitzer Hall will host a high tech newsroom. Bridging America’s
east and west coasts, the Brown Institute will cultivate working
relationships with top business leaders and media companies to link its
advances to the market. The Institute also will engage with students at
Journalism and other Columbia schools to further understanding and
innovation in media.
Tow Center for
Digital Journalism
The Tow Center for Digital
Journalism, which opened in
Fall 2010, offers students the
skills, experience, and knowledge
to become leaders in digital
journalism and also serves as a
research and development 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 for
both established media companies and new startups. The Center director,
Emily Bell, oversees original scholarly research and explores a variety
of new models by which news organizations can sustainably create and
deliver high quality content to their audiences. The Tow Center recently
accepted a $2 million grant from the Knight and Tow Foundations to explore
best practices for maximizing the impact of digital news. towcenter.org

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