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Summer Program in Washington
Real-world professional standards. Real-world deadlines. Real-world stories that need to be told. All in our nation’s capital!
The Washington semester of the Newhouse Broadcast and Digital Journalism graduate program is where students take all the journalistic skills they have learned over the past year and put them to the test in the news capital of the world.
BDJ Master's students are required to spend the last six weeks of their graduate program in Washington, D.C. During this capstone experience, the hands-on and academic lessons learned from the previous semesters on the Syracuse campus are applied at another level.
The majority of the class covers Capitol Hill and the federal government as reporters for television stations in markets as varied as Austin, Erie, Waco, Shreveport, Ft. Wayne and Joplin. As credentialed members of the Washington press corps, they develop, research, shoot, report and edit their own spots, which then air on their assigned stations.
Students interested in producing, work with a variety of organizations. In previous years, we have placed students with CBS Newspath; WTTG-TV, the FOX station in Washington; Agence France Presse; NBC News; The Situation Room at CNN; and the Cox News Washington Bureau.
We have longtime partners in radio news and sports including WTOP News Radio and WAMU, the NPR station in Washington.
A number of our students have had converged media experiences working in outlets such as USAToday. The capstone program is supported by faculty who bring decades of experience covering Washington for local and network news operations. Students also benefit from the twice-weekly Speakers Series, where journalists and Washington insiders share their observations about their profession and the unique challenges of making sense of Washington and those who work there.
The Washington semester of the Newhouse Broadcast and Digital Journalism graduate program is where students take all the journalistic skills they have learned over the past year and put them to the test in the news capital of the world. BDJ Master's students are required to spend the last six weeks of their graduate program in Washington, D.C. During this capstone experience, the hands-on and academic lessons learned from the previous semesters on the Syracuse campus are applied at another level.
The majority of the class covers Capitol Hill and the federal government as reporters for television stations in markets as varied as Austin, Erie, Waco, Shreveport, Ft. Wayne and Joplin. As credentialed members of the Washington press corps, they develop, research, shoot, report and edit their own spots, which then air on their assigned stations.
Students interested in producing, work with a variety of organizations. In previous years, we have placed students with CBS Newspath; WTTG-TV, the FOX station in Washington; Agence France Presse; NBC News; The Situation Room at CNN; and the Cox News Washington Bureau.
We have longtime partners in radio news and sports including WTOP News Radio and WAMU, the NPR station in Washington.
A number of our students have had converged media experiences working in outlets such as USAToday. The capstone program is supported by faculty who bring decades of experience covering Washington for local and network news operations. Students also benefit from the twice-weekly Speakers Series, where journalists and Washington insiders share their observations about their profession and the unique challenges of making sense of Washington and those who work there.
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