Category: Current Students, Faculty and Staff
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Got internship?
By Martin Xavi Macias, Journalism graduate student (’16) If you’re a Columbia College journalism student looking for an internship or a job, Jennifer Halperin is the person you want to meet with. Over a 20-year career as journalist, Halperin developed invaluable relationships across the media landscape. Looking back on her 10 years as internship…
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Bilingual journalism grad heads for the big-time at Univision in Florida
By Martin Xavi Macias, Journalism graduate student (’16) After graduating with her journalism degree in 2012 from Columbia College Chicago, Carolina Cruz took a chance on a smaller market in Nothern Illinois that is now paying off big-time. Cruz is heading to Florida to work as a bilingual reporter for Univision Tampa Bay.…
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Journalism student grabs coveted Tribune internship
By Martin Xavi Macias Journalism graduate student (’16) Matt McCall, an undergraduate journalism student at Columbia College, is taking on a roll that is coveted by many journalism students across the city–a paid internship at the Chicago Tribune. It won’t be his first rodeo at the Tribune, either. McCall previously worked as an intern for…
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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…
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An interview with Chicago Tribune investigative journalist Sam Roe
Sam Roe teaches investigative reporting at Columbia College Chicago and is a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune. Roe was part of the reporting team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for an examination of unsafe children’s products. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting in 2000, 2011 and 2013.…