There is one phrase you will hear over and over at Newhouse: journalists don’t do math. Many students at Newhouse are wordsmiths, design wizzes, and/or photography gurus, so if you mention numbers, you will hear an audible groan from everyone within earshot. This is why so many journalism students run for the hills at the …
One International Student’s Perspective on American Journalism & Media Hello, if you are reading this you may be an international student like me or you may just be curious about an outsider’s perspective of this industry. Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Julianna and I am from Toronto, Canada, America’s northern neighbour. …
When you become a student of Newhouse there’s a question or a phrase that can be heard often, “Did you check you email?” or “It’s in an email”. This is said so often it might as well be a song, but it said so often because there so much going on here at Newhouse that …
By Kyla Wright How do I balance work and school? That’s a great question, but I don’t really know the answer. I could give a cliche answer about a 60/40 balance or daily planning, but quite frankly, I don’t have my life that together, at least yet. I’m pretty spontaneous, ambitious and busy which works …
When you think of grad school, the term “boot camp” is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. That’s because it’s Newhouse’s unique way of accomplishing several things for new grad students: getting everyone up to speed and ready for the rest of the program, setting you on track to finish your master’s …
I am a student in the Magazine, Newspaper, and Online Journalism program, which means I take a variety of courses throughout the week. My days at Newhouse start early. Tuesdays, my longest day, start at 6 a.m., much to the chagrin of my very sleepy cat. I take my time getting ready and …
When I tell people that I’m studying Public Diplomacy I get a variety of responses. These range from “Wow that’s great!” to “Well you should have gone into engineering” to “What even is that?” Public diplomacy isn’t the most recognizable term. I have to admit I wasn’t familiar with it myself before I applied to the program at …
When I started in the Public Diplomacy program at Newhouse, I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed English major fresh out of undergrad. While I knew I could write until the end of the day and keep up with the best of them, I knew I still had quite a lot to learn as I was very …
By: Camille Daniels I think depending on how exposed you already are to journalism determines what you may know in terms of general knowledge about it and the evolution in which it has taken. For a long time, the profession had enough money coming in and technology was not as advanced as it is now …