Month: May 2015
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Science journalism student who spent semester at NASA’s Johnson Space Center says Columbia’s strongest asset is its faculty
“Don’t screw anything up. Don’t blow anything up.”
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Student recipient of 2015 Nat Geo internship shares tips for landing a gig
Matt McCall, a 2015 Multimedia Journalism graduate, is headed to a prestigious internship at National Geographic this summer. “Basically if you want an internship you’re going to get it,” he says. “But you have to be driven.” For more information about Journalism internships, contact Jennifer Halperin at jhalperin@colum.edu.
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Alum: ‘Wherever the news is at, that’s where I’m at’
Andrea Watson earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia College Chicago in 2014. We caught up with her when she was still a staff reporter at the Chicago Defender. She is now a reporter for DNAinfo in Chicago. “Wherever the news is at, that’s where I’m at,” Watson said. “The field of journalism is…
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What’s it like to be the editor of the award-winning Columbia Chronicle? Like riding an Express train, says its editor-in-chief
Tyler Eagle, editor-in-chief of our award-winning student newspaper, tells us in 30 seconds what it’s like to lead the weekly newspaper and what stories he’s been most proud of this past year.
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Photojournalist Rob Hart on what inspires him to teach and to document stories
Rob Hart teaches Digital Storytelling in the Communication and Media Innovation Department. This required course for Journalism and Photojournalism majors teaches students the fundamentals of visual storytelling with photography and video. A veteran photojournalist and graduate of Columbia College Chicago, Hart is a protege of the legendary John H. White, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer…
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Advice from the executive editor of an award-winning newspaper in Central Illinois and graduate of our program
As executive editor of the Peoria Journal Star, Dennis Anderson has helped make the central Illinois newspaper one of the best in the country. This year Editor & Publisher named the Journal Star among its group of “10 That Do It Right.” The GateHouse paper also received the 2014 top award for general excellence from…