I have now spent 13 months as a Newhouse graduate and wow, I cannot believe I have made it this far. When I initially got accepted into the program I didn’t know how I was going to pay for it. The next day, I received my financial aid decision, learning that I wouldn’t have to …
During the tedious, exhausting job hunt that many recent graduates are familiar with, the sound of “informational interview” may as well be nails on a chalkboard. When you’re putting so much time into finding the next step in your career ladder, the idea of taking time out of your day simply for “information” doesn’t feel …
Fifteen of us from Newhouse have successfully moved to Washington, D.C. and completed our first week as correspondents for our respective stations. We paid for our living quarters and tuition, but we went in not fully knowing what to expect. We started out extremely excited to be here, already knowing our stations from all over …
Well, six weeks are up at Syracuse University and Newhouse. We endured six weeks of news packages, live hits, live VO/SOTs, and even some in-studio interviews. We went through crazy weather reports when we had no idea what we were talking about, pushed through cameras just about running us over and cameras shutting off as …
For Computational Journalism students, we decided to do our final 2 credits with Professor Upton who is teaching how to use data to tell stories, and 2 credits with Magazine, Newspaper & Online Journalism (MNO) students on their capstone project. For the 2 credits with Professor Upton, we were required to create interactive charts for …
The first half of summer capstone is now finished and I can’t believe it. I’m honestly starting to get a bit nervous of how little time we have left at Syracuse for the summer. We have finished three, long weeks of rotating jobs to be an anchor, day-of reporter, social media producer, producer, associate producer, …
My time in Syracuse has come to an end, as I flew back home to Texas on Saturday morning. I would’ve left earlier in June, but I decided to stick around to help Gary Gemmill facilitate a team dynamics seminar with the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. I spent the entire day with …
Although my time at Newhouse concluded upon graduation in May, I decided to stick around Syracuse until the end of June. This time of relaxation has given me the chance to reflect on some of the highlights during my one year master’s program building Doodle the News. As I have mentioned before, I have the …
I told you all that the first portion of my capstone after graduating was to be back at Newhouse for 6 weeks. We just finished our second week of “class” — I say that lightly because it’s class, but it’s not really class. Here is a rundown of how the week goes: Monday: Newscast Tuesday: …