The recent advances in technology, which now enable people to easily capture and share details about events happening around them and also to discuss their different opinions on issues affecting them through social media, have made people begin to think that maybe there will come a time when journalists will be less needed in our …
The Public Diplomacy master’s class of 2016-2018 will be graduating in the next few weeks. Like their contemporaries in other courses in the Newhouse School, the biggest preoccupation of these students is to find that job (although maybe not the job of their dreams for starters). Most of them that I have spoken to at …
For those students who are still deciding what to do with their summer semester, this interview with Ryan Williams, who is the assistant dean for Maxwell’s DC Program, is worth a read. Aaron: Why is it worth it for a Newhouse student to take courses from the Maxwell in DC Program? Ryan Williams: Being …
Weird as they are sometimes, outfits are more than just clothes. They are the brainchild of creative minds. They are voices. Put another way, clothes are a form of advocacy. This is why it is often said that: “You are what you wear.” What you wear in a way is a form of self-expression. Thus, …
“Aaron, you can only do something exceptionally well if you are passionate about it. If you are passionate about something, there is no Monday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday because that is all you want to do. When you are consumed by the desire for quality output, the ‘9 to 5 p.m. just to …
To help you prepare for the job hunt, Aaron Mwewa interviewed distinguished Public Relations Professor Bill Smullen. Bill Smullen was appointed as the Director of National Security Studies at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in June of 2003. He is also Maxwell’s Senior Fellow in National Security and a member of the …
Don’t say you were not told. In the interview below with Aaron Mwewa, Professor Bill Smullen helps you to be the most prepared and most preferred candidate at your next interviews. Other candidates have done it and have succeeded. Why not you? It’s time to stop guess work. There is no magic involved and no …
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Respected media mogul Rupert Murdoch argues that a professional journalist is expected to be a ‘Jack of all trades, but a master of none.’ The reason he advances for this expectation is that journalists are supposed to handle content on a wide variety of issues in a bid to keep their constituencies informed regularly. In …