Dear Newhouse Insider readers, The Newhouse School is beginning a process of consolidating affiliated websites and social media accounts. Starting this semester, the Newhouse Insider blog will be integrated with the official Newhouse website in the News section. There are already a few posts on this “new” site, which you can see by going here and clicking Newhouse Insider in …
As a graduate student in the Broadcast and Digital Journalism program, every day is a workday (yes, including the weekend). That is why incoming students must understand the duration of this program and start incorporating time management skills into their everyday lives. The program lasts one year, beginning in the summer and concluding in the …
Syracuse University did an exceptional job of allowing students to utilize campus resources in a pandemic riddled semester, along with letting students who were uncomfortable going to campus learn from home. As universities around the nation were shutting down or going fully virtual, Syracuse did its best to comply with the student body. Although the …
Yes, I too came to Syracuse University to work in sports. Although 2020 has been an unprecedented year for the world, college sports have been impacted massively. You do not see people in the stands in the photograph above, and that is not because the game has not started yet. It is because no fans …
We made it! After a – far from normal – semester, it has finally come to an end. As a grad student, I know how hard we all have worked day in and day out and just don’t know how we are going to tell your brain to slowwwww downnnn. Me either, but I feel like …
The opportunities Newhouse provides grad students with in the first semester are endless. Although many of them have been altered in a way due to COVID-19, it only takes keeping up with your e-mail to seek something out to keep you busy. There is not a single day that goes by on which I do …
Well, we did it. Congratulations everyone, we officially made it to the end of the Fall semester! Honestly, we lasted longer in person than I, or anyone I’ve talked to about it, had expected. When we started in September, I would have put money on us being online by the end of October. There were …
Last week I drove myself back up over the border into Canada. Although it’s only a five-hour drive, it took me closer to eight hours due to the fact I had to pull into a McDonald’s parking lot halfway through to attend class via hotspot (one of the perks of Zoom University). Later that evening, …
By Dominick Pfisterer I was sitting in my apartment when I first heard the news that Joe Biden won the Presidential Election. Not ten minutes later did I hear cheers from outside, car horns honking; it was even 70-degrees outside in November in upstate New York – everything was different. There was a sense of unity in …