School of Journalism
College of Arts & Sciences
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
102 Lake Hall
Boston, MA 02115-5000
phone: 617.373.3236
fax: 617.373.8773
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Deadline for Fall Admission 2008
- Applications with Requests for Assistantships, February 1
- International Applications, May 1
- Domestic Applications without Assistantships, August 1
- Special Student Applications, August 25
Welcome to Northeastern University's Graduate School of Journalism. Our School offers a master of arts in three concentrations - Professional, Research and Journalism and Public Policy - to provide students with the choice of either hands-on training in the field of journalism, analytical study that could lead to opportunities in teaching or specialized beats or for students who are interested in reporting on public policy.
In the Professional Concentration, a combination of training in the classroom and work experience outside prepares graduates for careers as reporters and editors at newspapers, magazines, online publications and in the broadcast media. Internships or co-ops in the field are an integral part of the program for Professional Concentration students. They also write and edit the New England Press Association Bulletin, a trade publication for about 500 community newspapers.
The Research Concentration generally attracts experienced journalists who would like to develop a specialty within their field, or who hope to branch off into other career pursuits, such as teaching or writing books. At Northeastern, you would have time to develop a specialty - politics, education, religion, law, cinema studies, social welfare reporting, demographics reporting and medical reporting to name a few - so that you can move up at your publication, or seek a better job elsewhere. It can also provide you with a chance to focus on a specific topic in a way that's impossible when you're driven by deadlines and story quotas. Some of our students are seasoned reporters who had stories they were itching to do - but lacked the support from their editors, the time to hunt down the sources and the technology to build and crunch data sets to make their pieces work. Here, you would have the support and the resources to produce the stories you always wanted to write. And you're likely going to be able to sell them, because Northeastern's network of contacts enables ambitious students to connect with appropriate publications.
The Journalism and Public Policy Concentration is offered in partnership with the new School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy. It provides students a chance to learn about the complex world of public policy and public policy reporting from public policy experts in the social sciences and from skilled journalists.
But Northeastern isn't just about the next step up the career ladder.
Maybe you just need a break from the grind, and want to be a student again with the chance to step back, read, think and write with a renewed sense of purpose. The bottom line is our program can help you to reshape your career, or provide you with the essential tools to improve upon the work you already do. It will put you into contact with the best our profession has to offer, both within the university's rich faculty and through Northeastern's strong links with local media and other publications across the country. Take a deeper look within our Web site to see what we can do for you.