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AMERICAN JOURNALISM ONLINE MASTER’S PROGRAM
American Journalism Online Master’s Program
Reporting the World
Take the next step in your career with an online master’s degree in journalism from NYU
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We are now accepting applications for Fall 2021. Next Deadline: May 15. Final deadline: July 15.
We’re here to train journalists who want to change the world for the better. Whether you’re just starting out or want to get to the next level, we have what you need.
American Journalism Online Master’s Program
The American Journalism Online Master’s Programhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/1pg-20qfBnE
Do it your way
Earn a world-class Master of Arts in Journalism degree fully online. Our program brings together students from all over the globe to learn from some of the world’s most accomplished journalists. We offer flexible pathways so you can customize your course of study and complete your degree at your own pace. Go full-time and get it done in one year or attend part-time and take 18 months, two years, or longer.
Learn by doing
In the American Journalism Online Master’s Program, you’ll start reporting from day one. Our courses provide you with the foundational tools to build your career as you imagine it: you’ll choose your own beat and report on the stories that matter to you. Amass clips, shoot and edit video, record podcasts, and gain professional cred. Be the kind of journalist you want to be: a beat reporter, magazine feature writer, arts or cultural critic, audio storyteller, multimedia journalist, on-air correspondent or news anchor.
Meet your mentor
In addition to your coursework, you’ll be paired with a top professional who provides feedback on your work and advice on navigating the inner workings of the journalism industry. Our mentors are some of the best journalists in the business, and we match them with students based on their beat and mutual interests. Our mentors work at the New Yorker, the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, NBC, CNBC, Business Insider, Forbes, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and many others.
Internships, jobs and career counseling
Our career counselor is with you every step of the way as you seek internships and look for jobs wherever you may live. You’ll receive personal attention customized to your needs and abilities, and can tap NYU Journalism’s vast network of alumni who can help you shape your career.
Credit: Bob Eckstein
American Journalism Online Awards
The AJO Awards recognize excellence in reporting, writing and news production across genres. As the media landscape evolves, we want to celebrate great journalism no matter what form it takes — whether a long-form narrative published on a website, a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter thread, or a TikTok video.
Faculty
Liza Hogan
Adjunct Faculty
Liza Hogan is a founder and longtime senior producer for CNN.com where she covered a number of major stories from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential campaign, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Later, as a founder and editor for PBS’s NextAvenue.org, she helped design and manage a startup news website for adults 50 and older. She earned her master’s in journalism from Northwestern University and currently works as a digital strategies consultant in Washington, D.C.
Adam L. Penenberg
Associate Professor | Director, Online Master’s in Journalism Program | Director, Undergraduate Studies
B.A., Economics, Reed College
In a wide-ranging career as a writer, editor, columnist, and film producer, Professor Penenberg has written for Fast Company, Forbes, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Playboy, and the Economist. A former senior editor at Forbes and a reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of the New Republic. Penenberg’s story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and portrayed in the film Shattered Glass (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg). He wrote the popular “Media Hack” column for Wired News, was a columnist for Slate, and a contributing writer to Fast Company magazine.
Melanie Hicken
Adjunct Faculty
Melanie Hicken is an award-winning investigative reporter for CNN. Her work has exposed everything from widespread sexual abuse in nursing homes to one of the longest-running scams in history. It has also inspired legislative action and government investigation.
Hicken and her longtime reporting partner, Blake Ellis’s groundbreaking investigation into the secret world of government debt collectors won the prestigious Heywood Broun Award of Distinction and inspired lawmakers to take action with legislation aimed at closing the loophole highlighted in the stories. They were finalists for a Peabody Award for CNN’s coverage of guns in America, and the two journalists have been honored by the International Association of Broadcasting, the National Press Club, the National Endowment for Financial Education, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Hicken regularly appears on CNN and other television and radio networks to discuss her investigations.
Nidhi Prakash
Adjunct Faculty
Nidhi Prakash covers politics for BuzzFeed News. For the past year, she’s been on the campaign trail covering the presidential election and specifically the Biden campaign. Before that, she worked on Capitol Hill, reported on federal agencies, the Syrian refugee crisis, and broke news on the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria.
She previously worked in the UK, Chile, and started her career in Australian public radio.
Garnette Cadogan
Adjunct Faculty
Garnette Cadogan is an essayist. His writing explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. He writes about culture and the arts for various publications, and, in Fall 2017, was included in a list of 29 writers from around the world who “represent the future of new writing.”
He is editor-at-large of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), and is at work on a book on walking.
Julia Dahl
Adjunct Faculty
Julia Dahl has worked as an associate features editor at Marie Claire, a city desk reporter for the New York Post, the deputy managing editor of The Crime Report, and a crime and justice reporter for CBS News. She has been the recipient of a John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim fellowship in criminal justice journalism, as well as a fellowship from the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. Julia has a BA from Yale, an MFA from The New School, and an MA in journalism from American University.
Julia is also the author of four novels – INVISIBLE CITY, RUN YOU DOWN, CONVICTION, and THE MISSING HOURS (2021). INVISIBLE CITY and CONVICTION were both named best books of the year by the Boston Globe, and INVISIBLE CITY was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and has been translated into eight languages.
Liza Hogan
Adjunct Faculty
Liza Hogan is a founder and longtime senior producer for CNN.com where she covered a number of major stories from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential campaign, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Later, as a founder and editor for PBS’s NextAvenue.org, she helped design and manage a startup news website for adults 50 and older. She earned her master’s in journalism from Northwestern University and currently works as a digital strategies consultant in Washington, D.C.
Adam L. Penenberg
Associate Professor | Director, Online Master’s in Journalism Program | Director, Undergraduate Studies
B.A., Economics, Reed College
In a wide-ranging career as a writer, editor, columnist, and film producer, Professor Penenberg has written for Fast Company, Forbes, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Playboy, and the Economist. A former senior editor at Forbes and a reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of the New Republic. Penenberg’s story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and portrayed in the film Shattered Glass (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg). He wrote the popular “Media Hack” column for Wired News, was a columnist for Slate, and a contributing writer to Fast Company magazine.
Photo by Nicole Tung
Get Published
Collaborate with classmates from around the world on our publication, The Click—written, edited, and produced by you.
Credit: Bob Eckstein
What are online journalism classes at NYU like?
As an online master’s student, you’ll collaborate with instructors and peers from all over the globe. We keep our classes small—writing courses are capped at 13 students, multimedia at 10. This allows for copious amounts of face time with professors and fellow students. Professors offer intensive feedback on every assignment. Our ultimate goal is to train the next generation of great journalists to change the world.
We don’t assign textbooks that are out of date before they are even published. Instead, for every course we create our own interactive textbook, which we constantly update to reflect the relentless change that characterizes the world we live in. And we commission professional journalists to create interactive modules—cultivating sources and building source networks, fact-checking, combing through business filings to find great stories, digging up hard-to-find information online, information security, and even surviving as a photojournalist in a conflict zone.
Before class you’ll conduct research and actually report from your town or city, recording interviews and gathering facts. Then you’ll write stories on a wide variety of topics and in a range of styles, or shoot and edit video or create podcast segments. During class, you’ll workshop your assignments to get them ready for our program’s news site. You’ll debate ideas, ask questions, raise issues, and take turns acting as the publication’s executive editor. As with most professional media companies today, you’re only a click away from your editors and fellow reporters.
Courses
Reporting the News
Choose a beat and start reporting—then publish your work on our online publication.
Feature Writing
Use your words: learn to captivate and enthrall readers with vivid storytelling.
Long-Form Narrative
Read great works of journalism, then write your own.
Audio Storytelling
Learn how to produce your own podcasts and share them with the world.
Investigative Reporting
Chase leads, dig dirt, sift through data, and follow the money.
Law & Ethics in American Journalism
History, ethics, law—learn how to navigate murky waters.
Meet Our Students
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I love telling stories! Our stories make up a big part of who we are, and I want to help people find and tell theirs.
Megan | Madison, WI
Healthcare IT, avid reader, part-time student
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To study journalism at NYU is like winning the golden ticket in Willy Wonka. I feel honored to be the first Arab-American in the program, allowing me to give the world a glimpse of the phenomenal achievements and progressive changes in the region.
Sabal Almadi | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Public Relations Specialist & Writer
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The storytelling that I care most about is within the social justice movement—local, grassroots efforts of people trying to make this country better.
Audra | New York, NY
Writer and organizer, full-time student
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I am able to build relationships within my classes thanks to our live classroom atmosphere and I really get to know my teachers on a level I never thought was possible.
Lauren | Philadelphia, PA
Photographer, full-time student
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I’m always looking for that intersection between medicine and LGBTQ+ rights
Zak | Harrison, NJ
Writer, story editor, former surgical technician
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Hard work, sleepless nights, tight deadlines mixed with a little bit of stress. But wow, is it fun.
Nicole | New York, NY
National news producer, mom, part-time student
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I want to help those who lack a voice. That’s why I want to be a journalist.
Grace | Los Angeles, CA
Journalist, history buff, part-time student
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A small island girl with big city dreams of publishing my own magazine!
Nasia | Nassau, BS
Copyeditor, daydreamer, part-time student
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My passion project for the past few years has been looking at the impact of media narratives, particularly in rural spaces.
Michelle | Louisville, KY
Journalist, home renovator, full-time student
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My line of work now, it sort of has a stigma, working in fashion in general. I’d like to be able to change that.
Lindsay | Jersey City, NJ
Fashion professional, traveler, part-time student
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I left my sports career to start a family. Raising two young kids and another on the way, I wanted to bridge the gap between working years, motherhood, and planning for the future.
Tiffany | Vero Beach, FL
Former sports reporter, mom, part-time student
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I love telling stories! Our stories make up a big part of who we are, and I want to help people find and tell theirs.
Megan | Madison, WI
Healthcare IT, avid reader, part-time student
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To study journalism at NYU is like winning the golden ticket in Willy Wonka. I feel honored to be the first Arab-American in the program, allowing me to give the world a glimpse of the phenomenal achievements and progressive changes in the region.
Sabal Almadi | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Public Relations Specialist & Writer
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Photo by Nicole Tung ’09. Nicole is a photojournalist covering conflict in the Middle East and Asia.
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Your Future Can Be Now
Program NewsAri Schneider, AJO 2020, has been shortlisted for a 2020 AIPS Sports Media AwardHis New York Times piece “Two Climbers. Best Friends. Only One Ticket to the Olympics” made the shortlist.Looking Ahead to the Spring 2021 Semester: An AJO NewsletterProf. Adam Penenberg, Founder & Director of the American Journalism Online Program at NYU, announces the launch of a newsletter for the program.Nominations are open for the inaugural American Journalism Online AwardsSubmit your pick for Best Data Visualization, Best News-Based Twitter Thread, Best Solo Newsletter, Best Podcast and more.The American Journalism Online Master’s Program Launches New Media Startup Accelerator with StartedStarted Companies, Inc., a public-benefit corporation, in collaboration with the American Journalism Online Master’s program at New York University, today announced the New Media Hyper-Accelerator.
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If you have further questions about the online master’s degree in journalism, please contact our program director Adam Penenberg or program administrator Lydia Page. For press inquiries contact James M. Devitt, and read our press release.
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For a student enrolled in a distance education program or course, please reference NYU’s state authorization website for further information detailing the applicable complaint process. NYU’s Master’s in American Journalism Online distance education complaint contact is Allan Corns, and you may reach him at acc13@nyu.edu.
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Masters Degree in Journalism
Why Consider Masters in Journalism Programs?
Pursuing a masters in journalism might be a top choice for students with a passion for breaking news and crafting interesting media pieces. Journalism masters programs could build upon the strong communications foundation you may have established in an undergraduate program. The advanced coursework might not only develop your writing and reporting capabilities, but also potentially help jumpstart a career in the media industry. Whether you’re already a member of the press, or just taking your first steps into the field, a masters in journalism could be the best push you need to take your reporting to the next level.
Journalism Master’s Programs Curriculum
A masters in journalism might develop your knowledge and skills to help share news with the public across a variety of mediums. Unlike the past, journalism isn’t limited to print media. In fact, many people now receive their news from online outlets and TV. While journalism masters programs might have been commonly tied to written pieces, today students may also work with newer technologies such as social media, digital broadcasting or podcasting. No matter which medium you choose, schools could stress key communications concepts such as:
- Strategic Communication
- Global Communication
- Research Methods
- Data Analysis
- Writing
- History of Journalism
These are just a few examples of topics you might engage with while earning your masters in journalism degree. Courses may vary by institution. Check with intended programs for more information.
Finding a Perfect Masters Degree in Journalism
Journalism masters degrees may be offered by a wide array of programs. Depending on the school, degrees may be available as a specific journalism concentration or as part of a more general communications program. While communications programs also touch on broad media concepts, both types of programs engage with journalism strategies and techniques. Some degree programs you could encounter include the following.
- A master of science in communication might emphasize the analytical side of journalism. Courses could offer students the opportunity to develop a methodological foundation to engage with news statistics and analysis.
- A Master of Arts in Communication is a more general communication degree. During this program, you might study things like social media, marketing, and advertising, in addition to journalism. This may be a great choice for students who want to work with multiple news platforms like online broadcasting or blogging.
- A Master of Communication Management focuses on what happens behind the scenes. This degree may expand your understanding of media strategies. For example, you could learn more about creating dynamic news campaigns. This might be a great program to develop skills and knowledge potentially necessary to pursue a managerial position.
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