Journalism

Journalism at The City College of New York gives students a hands-on experience. They learn the principles and fundamentals of journalism and put them into practice for their class work. Students use New York City as their laboratory to research, report, write stories, produce videos, audio stories and podcasts about news, important issues, their communities, culture, and sports. In our Race and Media, Latinx Media, and Journalism & Society: Covering Power classes, students learn to analyze the way media cover diverse communities and individuals and centers of power.

Our students participate in journalism fellowship programs, like the NBCU Fellows Academy, which offer stipends and enriched journalism programming and classes.

Award-winning professional journalists teach our classes, which emphasize ethics, analysis, strong writing skills, and technical expertise in the latest journalism tools. Students learn to create digital information graphics, shoot and edit professional video, record in a professional sound booth, and edit audio. Our student journalists have won competitive regional awards from the Society of Professional Journalists three years in a row. Their work is published on Harlem View, which has also been recognized with honors.

We encourage students to take at least one internship before they graduate. Our students leave the program with skills that enable them to get entry level jobs in journalism, media, and other communications fields. Some go on to graduate school to continue their journalism education.