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{{Infobox university
|name = Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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|established = 1912
|parent = [[Columbia University]]
|founder = [[Joseph Pulitzer]]
|type = [[Private school|Private]]
|dean = [[Jelani Cobb]]
|students = 357 (Fall 2019)<ref name=history>{{cite web | title=Columbia University: Fall headcount enrollment by school, 2010–2019  | url=https://opir.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Statistical%20Abstract/opir_enrollment_history.pdf}}</ref>
|city = [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]
|state = [[New York (state)|New York]]
|country = United States
|campus = [[urban area|Urban]]
|website = {{URL|https://journalism.columbia.edu/}}
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The '''Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism''' is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's [[Morningside Heights, Manhattan|Morningside Heights]] campus in [[New York City]]. Founded in 1912 by [[Joseph Pulitzer]], Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism schools in the world and the only journalism school in the [[Ivy League]]. It offers four graduate degree programs.
The school shares facilities with the [[Pulitzer Prizes]]. It directly administers several other prizes, including the [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]], honoring excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service. It co-sponsors the [[National Magazine Awards]], also known as the Ellie Awards, and publishes the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]''.
In addition to offering professional development programs, fellowships and workshops, the school is home to the Tow Center for Digital Journalism,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://towcenter.columbia.edu/|title=Tow Center|website=towcenter.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref> the Brown Institute for Media Innovation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brown.columbia.edu/about/|title=About the Brown Institute – Brown Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref> and the [[Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dartcenter.org/about/mission-history|title=Mission & History|date=2009-03-25|website=Dart Center|language=en|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref>
Admission to the school is highly selective and has traditionally drawn an international student body. A Board of Visitors meets periodically to advise the dean's office and support the school's initiatives.<ref name=CJS_BOV>{{cite web | title=Columbia Journalism School: Board of Visitors | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/columbia-journalism-school#Board_of_Visitors | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
==History==
===Pulitzer School of Journalism===
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In 1892, Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born newspaper magnate, offered Columbia University President [[Seth Low]] funding to establish the world's first school of journalism. He sought to elevate a profession viewed more often as a common trade learned through an apprenticeship. His idea was for a center of enlightened journalism in pursuit of knowledge as well as skills in the service of democracy. "It will impart knowledge—not for its own sake, but to be used for the public service," Pulitzer wrote in a now landmark, lead essay of the May 1904 issue of the ''[[North American Review]]''.<ref name=NA_Review>{{cite magazine |last=Pulitzer |first=Joseph |year=1904 |title=Planning a School of Journalism – The Basic Concept in 1904 |url=http://centennial.journalism.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Joseph-Pulitzer-NAmerican-Review-19041.pdf |magazine=The North American Review |volume=178 |issue=5 |access-date=Aug 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510015500/http://centennial.journalism.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Joseph-Pulitzer-NAmerican-Review-19041.pdf |archive-date=May 10, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The university was resistant to the idea. But Low's successor, [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], was more receptive to the plan.<ref name=boylan>James Boylan, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AyqyMy8ymOEC Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism]''. Columbia University Press (2003).</ref>
Pulitzer was set on creating his vision at Columbia and offered it a $2&nbsp;million gift, one-quarter of which was to be used to establish prizes in journalism and the arts. It took years of negotiations and Pulitzer's death in October 1911 to finalize plans. On September 30, 1912, classes began with 79 undergraduate and postgraduate students, including a dozen women. Veteran journalist [[Talcott Williams]] was installed as the school's director. When not attending classes and lectures, students scoured the city for news. Their more advanced classmates were assigned to cover a visit by U.S. President [[William Howard Taft]], a sensational police murder trial and a women's suffrage march. A student from China went undercover to report on a downtown cocaine den. A journalism building was constructed the following year at 2950 Broadway and 116th Street on the western end of the campus. A [[Statue of Thomas Jefferson (Columbia University)|statue of Thomas Jefferson]] was installed in June 1914 as a symbol of "free inquiry" exemplified by the debates between him and fellow American founder and Columbia alumnus, [[Alexander Hamilton]], a [[Statue of Alexander Hamilton (Columbia University)|statute of whom]] was unveiled directly across campus in front of [[Hamilton Hall (Columbia University)|Hamilton Hall]] six years earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Song|first=T.M.|url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2020/12/08/a-case-for-relocation/|title=A case for relocation|website=Columbia Spectator|date=December 8, 2020}}</ref>
=== First journalism graduate school ===
[[File:Columbia J-School01.jpg|thumb|right|A bust of [[Joseph Pulitzer]] and plaque in the Columbia Journalism School lobby]]In 1935, Dean [[Carl W. Ackerman|Carl Ackerman]], a 1913 alumnus, led the school's transition to become the first graduate school of journalism in the United States. As the school's reach and reputation spread (due in part to an adjunct faculty of working New York journalists and a tenured full-time faculty that included Pulitzer winners [[Douglas Southall Freeman]] and [[Henry F. Pringle]] and ''[[Life Begins at Forty]]'' author [[Walter B. Pitkin]]), it began offering coursework in television news and documentary filmmaking in addition to its focus on newspapers and radio. The [[Maria Moors Cabot Prizes]], the oldest international awards in journalism, were founded in 1938, honoring reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism moved to the school in 1968. In 1958, the Columbia Journalism Award, the school's highest honor, was established to recognize a person of overarching accomplishment and distinguished service to journalism. Three years later, the school began publishing the ''Columbia Journalism Review''.<ref name=CJS_History>{{cite web | title=Columbia Journalism School: History | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/columbia-journalism-school#Our_History | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Columbia J-School00.jpg|thumb|Pulitzer Hall|left]]After joining the tenured faculty in 1950, veteran [[United Nations]] correspondent [[John Hohenberg]] became the inaugural administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes in 1954, a secondary appointment that he would hold until 1976. Ackerman was succeeded as dean in 1954 by former [[Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs]] [[Edward W. Barrett]], who served until 1968. In 1966, the school began awarding the National Magazine Awards in association with the [[American Society of Magazine Editors]]. Former [[CBS News]] president [[Fred W. Friendly]] was appointed the same year to the tenured faculty and enhanced the broadcast journalism program alongside former [[NBC News]] correspondent [[Elie Abel]], who served as dean from 1970 to 1979. Abel was succeeded by former ''[[Newsweek]]'' editor and prominent New York socialite [[Osborn Elliott]] (1979–1986), who in turn was succeeded by longtime [[Bill Moyers]] collaborator [[Joan Konner]] (1988–1996), the school's only female dean to date. By the 1970s, the Reporting and Writing 1 (RW1) course had become the cornerstone of the school's basic curriculum. The Knight‐Bagehot Fellowship was created in 1975 to enrich economics and business journalism. In 1985, the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism was founded. While serving as Pulitzer administrator, former ''[[The New York Times]]'' managing editor [[Seymour Topping]] joined the tenured faculty in 1994.
[[File:Columbia Admissions - 4876289625.jpg|thumb|The Pulitzer Hall foyer]]
A doctoral program was established in 1998 by communications theorist [[James W. Carey]], who emerged as an "editor of and contributor to many scholarly publications at a time when Columbia was urging journalism professors to do more academic research."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/nyregion/26carey.html|title = James W. Carey, Teacher of Journalists, Dies at 71|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 26 May 2006|last1 = Martin|first1 = Douglas}}</ref> In 2005, [[Nicholas Lemann]], two years into his tenure as dean, created a second more specialized master's program leading to a master of arts degree, prompting the hiring of political journalist [[Thomas B. Edsall]] and music critic [[David Hajdu]]. As a result of industry changes forced by digital media, the school in 2013 erased distinctions between types of media, such as newspaper, broadcast, magazine and new media, as specializations in its master of science curriculum. The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, dedicated to training select students interested in pursuing careers in investigative journalism, opened in 2006. A year later, the Spencer Fellowship was created to focus on long-form reporting. The [[Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma]] relocated to Columbia in 2009 to focus on media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy.<ref name=Dart_Center>{{cite web | title=Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma: Mission & History | url=https://dartcenter.org/about/mission-history | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 3, 2017}}</ref> In 2010, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism was created. The [[Brown Institute for Media Innovation]] was launched under the aegis of former [[Bell Labs]] statistician and data scientist [[Mark Henry Hansen]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sonderman|first=Jeff|url=https://www.poynter.org/2012/whats-next-for-columbias-j-school-as-dean-nicholas-lemann-leaves-role/191147/|title=What's next for Columbia's Journalism School as Dean Nicholas Lemann steps down|website=Poynter|date=10 October 2012|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/columbia-journalism-school|title=Columbia Journalism School|website=journalism.columbia.edu|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref>
==Academic programs==
[[File:Columbia J-School02.jpg|thumb|right|The Broadway and 116th Street Main Gate outside the Columbia Journalism School]]
The school's ten-month Master of Science (M.S.) program offers aspiring and experienced journalists the opportunity to study the skills, art and ethics of journalism by reporting and writing stories that range from short news pieces to complex narrative features. Some students interested in investigative reporting are selected to study at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, a specialization of the M.S. program. Documentary and data journalism specialization programs are offered as well. The M.S. program is also offered on a part-time basis.<ref name="MS_Degree">{{cite web | title=M.S. Degree | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/ms-degree | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
A year-long M.S. program in data journalism teaches the skills for finding, collecting and analyzing data for storytelling, presentation and investigative reporting.<ref name=DataJournalism_Degree>{{cite web | title=M.S. Data Journalism | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/ms-data-journalism | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 7, 2017}}</ref>
The school offers several dual-degree programs in collaboration with other schools at Columbia: journalism and computer science, journalism and international affairs, journalism and law, journalism and business, and journalism and religion. The school also offers international dual-degree programs with [[Sciences Po]] in [[Paris|Paris, France]] and the [[University of Witwatersrand]] in [[Johannesburg|Johannesburg, South Africa]].<ref name=Dual_Degree>{{cite web | title=Dual Degree Programs | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/dual-degree-programs | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
The smaller and more specialized, nine-month Master of Arts (M.A.) program is for experienced journalists interested in focusing on a particular subject area: politics, science, business and economics or arts and culture. M.A. students work closely with journalism professors and take courses in other academic departments and schools at the university. The program is full-time.<ref name=MA_Degree>{{cite web | title=M.A. Degree | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/ma-degree | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
The doctoral program draws upon the resources of Columbia in a multidisciplinary approach to the study of communications. Ph.D. students craft individual courses of study to acquire deep knowledge in an area of concentration through research and coursework in disciplines ranging from history, sociology or religion to business or international affairs.<ref name=PhD_Degree>{{cite web | title=PhD in Communications | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/phd-communications | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
A six-week graduate-level course on book, magazine, and digital publishing, known as the [[Columbia Publishing Course]], has been offered since 2000, when the program transferred from [[Radcliffe College]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2017 |title=Series 4. Radcliffe Publishing Course, 1944–1995 |url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/archival_objects/2385467 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=Harvard Library}}</ref>
==''The Bronx Beat''==
''The Bronx Beat'', established in 1981 and published Mondays, is the weekly student publication of Columbia Journalism School. <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/96_99/19505.htm Columbia.edu: When Classroom Becomes Newsroom: Columbia Journalism Students Publish Own Weekly, Bronx Beat]</ref>{{bsn|date=June 2021}}
==''Uptown Radio''==
''Uptown Radio'' is a weekly news magazine and podcast modeled after NPR's ''[[All Things Considered]]''. It is produced by the students of the Radio Workshop, an advanced audio course at Columbia Journalism School. Uptown Radio is the school's longest-running continuous webcast, broadcasting each Thursday at 4 pm, from February through May, since 1996. Uptown Radio contains original feature reports as well as interviews and newscasts in service of the listeners in New York City and the world beyond. <ref>[http://uptownradio.org/ Uptown Radio]</ref><ref>[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uptown-radio/id1367746188 Uptown Radio Podcast]</ref>
==Journalism awards==
The Columbia Journalism School directly administers the [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]],  the [[Maria Moors Cabot Prize]]s, the [[John Chancellor]] Award for Excellence in Journalism, the [[J. Anthony Lukas|Lukas]] Prizes, the [[John B. Oakes|Oakes]] Prizes, the [[Meyer Berger]] Award, the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award and the [[Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma]]. It also co-sponsors the [[National Magazine Awards]] with the [[American Society of Magazine Editors]], which administers the program.<ref name=CJS_Prizes>{{cite web | title=Prizes  | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/prizes | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 3, 2017}}</ref>
==Accreditation==
Columbia Journalism School is accredited by the [[Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication]].<ref name=CJS_Accreditation>{{cite web | title=Columbia Journalism School: Accreditation | url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/columbia-journalism-school#Accreditation | publisher=Columbia University | year=2016 | access-date=Aug 2, 2017}}</ref>
==Notable alumni==
{{Main|List of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism people}}
==Notable faculty==
* [[Daniel Alarcón]], assistant professor
* [[Emily Bell]], [[Leonard Tow]] Professor of Professional Practice in Journalism
* [[Helen Benedict]], professor
* [[Nina Berman]], professor
* [[Walt Bogdanich]], adjunct professor
* [[Jelani Cobb]], Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Dean
* [[Steve Coll]], [[Henry R. Luce]] Professor of Journalism
* [[Sheila Coronel]], Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism
* [[John Dinges]], [[Godfrey Lowell Cabot]] Professor Emeritus of Journalism
* [[Thomas B. Edsall]], adjunct professor (not active as of fall 2020)
* [[Stephen Fried]], taught narrative non-fiction magazine writing as adjunct professor
* [[Samuel G. Freedman]], professor
* [[Howard W. French]], professor
* [[Keith Gessen]], George T. Delacorte Assistant Professor of Magazine Journalism
* [[Ari L. Goldman]], professor
* [[Sig Gissler]], adjunct professor; former administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes (not active as of fall 2020)
* [[Todd Gitlin]], professor and chair, PhD program
* [[David Hajdu]], professor
* [[LynNell Hancock]], H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism
* [[Mark Henry Hansen]], David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism
* [[Richard R. John]], professor
* [[Nicholas Lemann]], dean emeritus; Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism
* [[Dale Maharidge]], professor
* [[Sylvia Nasar]], [[John S. Knight|John S.]] and [[James L. Knight]] Professor Emerita of Business Journalism
* [[Victor Navasky]], [[George T. Delacorte, Jr.]] Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in Magazine Journalism
* [[Charles Ornstein]], adjunct associate professor
* [[Michael Schudson]], professor
* [[Choire Sicha]], adjunct assistant professor (not active as of fall 2020)
* [[Katya Soldak]],  journalist and documentary filmmaker (documentary ''[[The Long Breakup]]'', 2020)
* [[James B. Stewart]], Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism
* [[Alexander Stille]], San Paolo Professor of International Journalism
* [[Jonathan Weiner]], [[Maxwell M. Geffen]] Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism
* [[Peter Kihss]], a renowned journalist at [[The New York Times]].
==References==
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==Further reading==
* Boylan, James. ''Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903–2003'' (2005).
==External links==
* [https://journalism.columbia.edu/ Columbia Journalism School website]
* [https://www.cjr.org/ ''Columbia Journalism Review'' website]
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