Journalism

Journalism Fellowships with CPI, BNA, and USA Today Fellows receive up to 33 credits of tuition remission plus a stipend. Application deadline Feb 1, 2010.

Journalism Fellowships

CPI, BNA, and USA Today fellows receive up to 33 credits of tuition remission plus a stipend. Application deadline Feb 1, 2010.

Learn to cover stories for print, broadcast and online from faculty that have practiced their profession at The Washington Post, NPR, and USA Today.

Our students can tell a story in any medium. Check out The American Observer, their online magazine. Then read what SOC alum and USA Today reporter Kathy Kiely has to say about our Interactive Journalism master's program.

Want a career in journalism? Len Downie, former Washington Post Executive Editor, cites SOC's journalism program as a path to success. Read about the Post's long-time relationship with SOC.

SOC and Nieman

Jon Alpert is the recipient of the Nieman Foundation's 2009 I.F. Stone Medal, an award for journalistic independence

SOC and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation partnered to salute award-winning documentarian Jon Alpert and SOC graduate student Russ Choma

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Center for New Journalism

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Find out why MediaShift's Mark Glaser calls American University's School of Communication a "hotbed for new forms of journalism".

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American Observer

As the leaves change and the crisp autumn air replaces the humidity of summer, fall festivals spring up across parts of Virginia and Maryland.

The Observer is an online magazine produced by the School of Communication's graduate journalism program. 

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