Newhouse School of Communications
Newspaper Journalism:
"Doing" on campus .... and in class ...
Newhouse print majors in Newspaper and Magazine work on a number of independent publications on campus. They also do classwork that is showcased in a number of ways.
Just in the last year they produced projects for the independent Daily Orange newspaper: There was a four-part series on the use of Plan B, the "morning-after pill," and another series of stories on police brutality in the city (a series honored by the Society of Professional Journalists).
A reporter in one class embedded for a week with soldiers training at Ft. Irwin, in Death Valley, Calif. Two students' class work on the project (shown on the site) won a top prize and $2,500 in Rolling Stone's annual college journalism contest. The overall publication all three students contributed to was honored with an annual award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
A a Newhouse professor will led a class of students to New Hampshire to report on the presidential primary; they filed stories for a variety of print, web and TV outlets and posted stories online at Knight Political Reporting. Print students are also deeply involved in the startup of a monthly community newsmagazine serving the South Side of Syracuse.
This past summer, Newspaper major Michael Becker was a finalist in the Hearst competition in San Francisco, where he placed second and won $4,000.
Our majors are "doing," ... and doing well ...
Click here [pdf] to read an excerpt from a special edition of The Student Voice, SU's only student-run weekly magazine. The issue focused on the war on terror. Both undergraduate and graduate print students reported and wrote the stories. One article, "Young Soldier Puts Life Back Together," was the first prize feature winner in the 2006 Rolling Stone Magazine College Journalism Competition.
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