The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism invites faculty, students, and staff to attend a series of fall lectures where distinguished visiting journalists and writers discuss their work and pressing issues of the day with faculty from various disciplines. These lunchtime talks—informal discussions of recent articles and books —offer intimate looks inside the work of colleagues […] »
The Humanities Council is proud to award 71 certificates and 7 independent concentrations to seniors across five Council programs. Congratulations to all our students and thank you to our faculty! Program in European Cultural Studies Certificate Students: Sofia Alvarado (SPIA), Annabelle Berghof (Art & Archaeology), Beatrix Bondor (English), Lizzie Curran (French and Italian), José Pablo […] »
Student journalists Sam Kagan ’24, Elaine Huang ’25, Annie Rupertus ’25, and Charlie Roth ’25 received the Campus Impact Award at Princeton Research Day, the University’s annual celebration of early-career research and creative endeavors. The four undergraduate students, who served as the inaugural editorial team for The Daily Princetonian’s data section, presented “The Frosh Survey,” […] »
Princeton alumna Caroline Kitchener ’14 was awarded a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work at The Washington Post, covering stories that “captured the complex consequences of life after Roe v. Wade.” The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, and literature, and musical composition within the United […] »
The Program in Journalism announced the slate of journalists chosen to serve as visiting professors in 2023-24. »
Undergraduate students entering the University this fall as the Class of 2027 will explore the tenuous threads that keep democracy woven together as they consider Maria Ressa’s latest book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future,” this year’s Princeton Pre-read selection. Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 […] »
The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism hosted an interdisciplinary discussion titled “Immersion: Reporting From Within Vulnerable Communities” on Thursday, February 23. Panelists included Kathryn Edin (Sociology and SPIA) and Rena Lederman (Anthropology), as well as Spring 2023 Visiting Ferris Professors of Journalism Nadja Drost (writer and documentary filmmaker) and Andrea Elliott (New York Times). The […] »
Princeton senior Anna Allport has been named one of three recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Allport is an independent concentrator in interdisciplinary theater and performance studies. She also is pursuing certificates in theater, journalism, and humanistic studies. She will use her Sachs Global […] »
Senior Kanishkh Kanodia is among five Princeton students who have been named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars. The award covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Kanodia, from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, is concentrating in the School of Public and International Affairs and pursuing certificates the Humanities […] »
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott will join the Humanities Council and the Program in Journalism next semester as a Visiting Lecturer and Ferris Professor of Journalism. A staff writer for The New York Times, Elliott has dedicated her career to documenting the lives of poor Americans, Muslim immigrants, and other people on the margins […] »
“Forced migration has now topped 100 million people across the globe,” says NPR correspondent Deborah Amos (Journalism), in a story featured on the University homepage. “It is one thing to read that number, it is quite another to interview one victim and understand the enormity of the number.” Eleven Princeton students in Amos’ journalism course […] »
Senior Marie-Rose Sheinerman has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. She is among 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships and will join an international group of Rhodes Scholars chosen from more than 60 countries. Sheinerman, of New York City, is concentrating in history and is also pursuing […] »
This summer, 1,500 Princeton first-year students read alumnus Jordan Salama’s celebrated travelogue, “Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena.” On Sunday, Sept. 4, the Class of 2026 heard directly from Salama at the annual Pre-read Assembly during Orientation. “At a place like Princeton you are in a very unique and privileged position […] »
Naomi Hess, a School of Public and International Affairs concentrator from Clarksville, Maryland, was awarded the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal at Princeton’s 2022 Class Day. The award recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton. Hess has earned certificates in the Humanities Council’s […] »
Junior Marie-Rose Sheinerman was awarded a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for her contributions to “urgent yet sweeping coverage” of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse while on staff as an intern at the Miami Herald. The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, and literature and musical […] »
A seasoned researcher and administrator, he will participate in journalism courses and advise reporting and writing projects about Afghanistan and the surrounding region. »
The Program in Journalism announces the slate of journalists chosen to serve as visiting professors in 2022-2023. »
On Thursday, February 16 the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism hosted the virtual panel “Reporting on Repressive Governments: How journalists overcome barriers to safeguard free speech and inform democracy.” The panel, which was moderated by Joe Stephens (Program in Journalism), discussed the important role that both journalists and scholars play in uncovering truth and informing […] »
The Program in Journalism is pleased to announce a full slate of topical events throughout Spring 2022. »
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalist Maria Ressa for her efforts to “safeguard freedom of expression.” »
Joe Stephens, director of the Program in Journalism and a Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Humanities Council, recently participated in a Q&A about how Princeton University professors incorporated the coronavirus and the pandemic’s effects into their course material during the spring 2021 semester. Stephens extensively revamped his media literacy course “The Media in America: […] »
Deborah Amos, an international correspondent for NPR, has taught in the Program in Journalism since 2017. »
The Program in Journalism announces the latest slate of journalists chosen to serve as visiting professors in 2021-22. »
Joanna Kakissis, visiting Ferris Professor and correspondent for NPR, spoke about reporting on refugees in Europe. »
By Lisa Kraege On March 18, the Program in Journalism hosted Joe Richman, founder of Radio Diaries and visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Humanities Council, in sharing some of his recent work during a lunchtime talk. Titled “Love From Six Feet Apart: Telling Stories From the Pandemic,” the event focused on capturing and […] »
By Lisa Kraege Objectivity and the News: Reexamining Facts, Truths, and Fairness, a panel discussion hosted by the Program in Journalism on February 16, brought together journalists and professors for a lively, thoughtful conversation about objectivity and the current state of the news media. Watch the full discussion here. Joe Stephens, the director of the […] »
Spring 2021 will be bursting with of-the-moment events presented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism. Interactive discussions — featuring diverse topics with ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy — will address everything from fairness in reporting to the sounds of refugees’ migration to stories of love in quarantine. The slate of events launches at 4:30 p.m. ET on February 16 […] »
Naomi Hess, a junior in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, has written a new post for Admissions’ Undergraduate Student Blog about her experience in the Humanities Council‘s Program in Journalism. “I found a home for my love of the written word within the Journalism department,” Hess shares. “Princeton’s journalism classes are consistently […] »
Princeton University senior Sophie Li has won the Rhodes Scholarship for Hong Kong. The prestigious fellowship funds one to three years of graduate study at the University of Oxford, where she will pursue an M.Sc. in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Li, who is concentrating in politics, is also pursuing a certificate from the Humanities Council’s […] »
In Spring 2021 the Program in Journalism will offer five courses open to students from all majors. For more information about all JRN courses, including cross-lists, visit journalism.princeton.edu/courses/. Students may contact Margo Bresnen, Journalism Program Manager, at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions or to be added to a waitlist. JRN CORE COURSES JRN 260 (SA)THE MEDIA IN AMERICA: WHAT TO […] »
Princeton University’s Program in Journalism is delighted to welcome its new cohort of distinguished journalists to serve as visiting professors in its internationally known writing seminars for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Humanities Council will host the renowned reporters and authors, each of whom will teach an intensive course for one semester. The visiting faculty will join the […] »
Two University alumni were awarded 2020 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism this week. Ben Taub ’14, a staff writer at The New Yorker, received the Pulitzer for Feature Writing for “Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret,” which the jury described as “a devastating account of a man who was kidnapped, tortured and deprived of his liberty for more than a […] »
The Program in Journalism is pleased to share its roster of Fall 2020 courses open to students from all majors. JRN’s popular seminars draw on the world’s most distinguished journalists as faculty. They have no prerequisites and fulfill requirements toward the program’s undergraduate certificate. For full course descriptions and cross-listed JRN courses, visit: https://journalism.princeton.edu/courses/ One course in […] »
In view of the current public health emergency, and the movement of University courses online, the Program in Journalism has revised its grading policy for spring 2020. For this semester only, in accordance with guidance from the Dean of Faculty, the Program in Journalism has extended the P/D/F option to students in all undergraduate JRN […] »
By Margo Bresnen After the most extraordinary spring break in recent memory, Princeton University resumed classes yesterday—virtually, in light of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among the first to tackle the change was JRN/CWR 240: Creative Non-Fiction, a course that John McPhee ’53 has taught on campus for the last 45 years. For the first time, […] »
The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism hosted a panel discussion yesterday afternoon featuring visiting Ferris Professors of Journalism Carol Giacomo and Suzy Hansen and professors Kim Lane Scheppele and Gary Bass from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which co-sponsored the event. More than 100 people came to hear the panelists discuss […] »
The University story titled “The Art of Radio Reporting: Finding stories that ‘whisper in the listener’s ear,’” features the Fall 2019 reporting trip to Mound Bayou, Mississippi led by Joe Richman, founder and executive producer of Radio Diaries, for his course “Audio Journalism: The Art of Narrative Storytelling for Radio and Podcasts.” He was joined […] »
In Princeton Alumni Weekly‘s annual “theme” issue, the focus is journalism. The Humanities Council‘s Program in Journalism is featured throughout the magazine, which is full of articles by and about current and former journalism students and visiting journalism professors. Allie Spensley ’20 recounts the tradition of student-journalism on campus, while Iris Samuels ’19—one of the […] »
Maria Ressa, a 1986 Princeton graduate and CEO and executive editor of the Philippines-based online news organization Rappler.com, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2020 Baccalaureate ceremony. During a visit to the University in April 2019, Ressa met with students and faculty in the Program in Journalism over dinner and sat with The Daily […] »
Seniors Serena Alagappan and Ananya Agustin Malhotra have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford. They are among 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford. The students will begin their studies at Oxford in September 2020. In a statement, […] »
Watch the full discussion here. “Trust Us? Journalism In a Time of Doubt and Disinformation,” a panel discussion hosted by the Program in Journalism, brought a packed audience of journalists, scholars, members of the University, and people from the surrounding community into McCormick 101 on Monday, Nov. 11. The discussion concerned one of the most […] »
Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism Errin Haines Whack discussed “The Role of Race in the 2020 Elections” at an lively lunch on Thursday, October 17. Discussant Ali Valenzuela, Assistant Professor of Politics, facilitated the conversation, hosted by the Program in Journalism. In attendance were faculty and administrators from the Program in Journalism and departments across […] »
Watch the video Jordan Salama ’19 discusses the impact had by Princeton University’s Program in Journalism on his undergraduate experience and beyond. Salama was among the first cohort of students to receive a certificate in Journalism, after having taken courses with Ferris Professors John McPhee, Joe Richman, and Pico Iyer. At the program’s senior colloquium, Salama presented […] »
Jack Lohmann, an English major and a certificate student in Journalism and Environmental Studies, spent a month on the Pacific island of Nauru for his senior thesis documenting life and politics in a destroyed environment. He presented his work to a panel of distinguished journalists at the recent Journalism Colloquium moderated by Joe Stephens, Ferris […] »
Ferris Professors John McPhee, Nick Chiles, and Pico Iyer, joined faculty and staff at the symposium titled “Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words.” The keynote was delivered by former Ferris Professor and founder of Radio Diaries, Joe Richman who spoke about how we can embrace our humanity by telling “extraordinary stories of ordinary life.” Read […] »
Seniors, juniors and graduate students are invited to apply for this workshop, offered during Spring 2019 Reading Period. The participants will explore how to turn some part of their thesis, junior paper or other piece of writing into publishable work suitable for a popular audience. The workshop is aimed at those who want to adapt […] »
Princeton University’s Program in Journalism has named eight distinguished journalists as visiting professors for the 2019–2020 academic year. The Humanities Council, which is home to the Program in Journalism, will host this group of renowned journalists, each of whom will teach an intensive seminar and participate in the life of the University over the course […] »
In a whirlwind 24-hour visit to Princeton on April 8 and 9, Maria Ressa, a 1986 alumna and CEO and executive editor of the Philippines-based online news organization Rappler.com, spoke with students, faculty and the campus community in forums large and small. She also felt safe — which is not her everyday modus operandi. On […] »
Exploring the idea of place is taking students enrolled in essayist Pico Iyer’s spring journalism course well beyond the geographic coordinates of the Princeton campus. “Issues about home and belonging and juggling cultures are going to be a theme throughout their lives,” said Iyer, a visiting lecturer in the Humanities Council and a Ferris Professor […] »
Jordan Salama, a Spanish and Portuguese major and Journalism certificate student, is producing a nonfiction book of travel writing about the people and places along Colombia’s main river, the Magdalena. John McPhee, whose course “Creative Non-Fiction” Salama took in his sophomore year, says of his former student, “In my course, Jordan’s performance was consistently on the highest level. This […] »
The Humanities Council and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies invite you to join the Program in Journalism this summer for a challenging, innovative course in which students become eyewitnesses to history. Offered at no cost to selected students, this seminar fulfills the fieldwork experience requirement for Journalism’s new certificate. Combining classroom work with field […] »
Former Ferris Professor of Journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Humanities Medal recipient Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal human story of […] »
John McPhee‘s “Creative Non-Fiction” course, one of the University’s longest running classes, was featured in a front-page story on “popular spring courses” in today’s edition of The Daily Princetonian. McPhee, a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence, has taught writing at Princeton since 1975. He recently published The Patch, his 33rd book, and was awarded […] »
Joe Stephens, an award-winning investigative reporter and former long-time Washington Post staff writer, has been named the founding director of the Humanities Council’s new Program in Journalism, effective July 1, 2018. In April, Princeton’s faculty voted unanimously to formalize journalism into a program and offer students, for the first time, an undergraduate certificate. The move […] »
Deadline extension: The workshop still has several spots, so we are extending the application deadline until Thursday, May 17, at midnight. For these later applicants, we will send you confirmation of a spot by Friday, May 18, at midnight if you are selected. All applicants to the workshop so far have been accepted, and you will […] »
In acknowledgement of ever-growing student interest in journalism, the faculty of Princeton University voted unanimously yesterday to offer, for the first time, an undergraduate certificate in journalism. The move is part of a sweeping overhaul of the University’s storied journalism seminars, aimed at meeting a swelling demand for journalism courses and recognizing the evolution of […] »
Ten distinguished journalists and nonfiction writers have been named visiting professors in Princeton University’s Ferris Seminars in Journalism for the 2018–2019 academic year. Each of the award-winning reporters and renowned authors will come to the Humanities Council, home to the Ferris Seminars, for a full semester to teach an intensive, intimate course and contribute to […] »
A group of nine journalism students recently spent their spring break in, under, and over New York City, reporting on unheralded corners of America’s biggest city. Crisscrossing the city with MetroCards, the students in JRN 440—The Literature of Fact spent upwards of 12 hours a day in the field. Their travels took them to the […] »
A University-produced video profile of JRN 450, Audio Journalism: Storytelling for Radio Documentaries and Podcasts, is currently on the homepage. Taught by visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism Joe Richman, the founder and executive producer of NPR’s Radio Diaries, the course focused on audio storytelling and explored the sensibilities and skills needed for narratives to capture listeners’ […] »
During Princeton’s Alumni Day on February 24, veteran television journalist Charles Gibson received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the University’s highest honor for undergraduate alumni. Gibson, a member of the Class of 1965 who earned his bachelor’s degree in history, delivered a speech titled “Notes from the Anchor Desk,” in which he reflected on more than […] »
Information about Journalism’s previous summer seminars can be viewed at Borderland, the course’s website. Information about Journalism’s 2019 offerings will be available in Fall 2018. The Humanities Council invites you to join the Ferris Seminars in Journalism this summer for a challenging, innovative course in which students become eyewitnesses to history. Combining classroom work with […] »
Senior John “Newby” Parton has been named a co-recipient of the University’s 2018 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. A concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Parton is a recent student in two of the courses taught by Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence […] »
Ben Taub ’14 has been awarded the 2017 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. As a staff writer at The New Yorker, Taub has written about jihadi recruitment in Europe, war crimes in Syria, battlefield medicine, and human trafficking along the trans-Saharan migration routes. His George Polk Award honors his reporting on the humanitarian devastation caused […] »
On February 8 more than 170 people attended a special screening and discussion of The Post hosted by the Ferris Seminars in Journalism. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, the Oscar-nominated film is a drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of […] »
On Thursday, February 8, the Ferris Seminars in Journalism will host a special screening of The Post at the Princeton Garden Theatre at 6:30 p.m. The Post is a political thriller about the The Washington Post‘s 1971 publication of top-secret information in the Pentagon Papers and stars Meryl Streep as publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks […] »
Hear it here first! On Wednesday, January 17, 2018, listen to stories about self-driving cars, space planes, social circuses, and private rail travel when the students of JRN 450: Radio Documentaries will publicly present their final projects. This event, in 010 East Pyne at 4:30pm, is free and open to the public. Taught by Ferris […] »
On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, investigative journalist Julia Ioffe ’05 (The Atlantic), who is on the front lines of reporting on the Trump-Russia investigation, will be in conversation with Ferris Professor of Journalism Deborah Amos (NPR) about her recent reporting, its challenges and risks, and the harassment she has experienced online from white supremacist groups. The […] »
Princeton University will present one of its top honors for alumni to veteran television journalist Charles Gibson. Gibson, a member of the Class of 1965 who earned his bachelor’s degree in history, will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award and deliver an address on campus during Alumni Day activities on Saturday, Feb. 24. The University bestows the Woodrow […] »
On November 7, a crowd filled an Aaron Burr lecture hall to hear Joe Richman, current Ferris Professor of Journalism, discuss his career as a radio and podcast creator and producer. After his start as a journalist at NPR, Richman founded Radio Diaries, a non-profit that trains ordinary people to record their lives in sound […] »
On Tuesday, November 7, 2017, the Humanities Council’s Ferris Seminars in Journalism and the Department of Anthropology will present an evening of storytelling with radio and podcast creator Joe Richman, Ferris Professor of Journalism and founder of Radio Diaries, NPR’s longest-running documentary series. For more than two decades, Radio Diaries has trained ordinary people to document […] »
In a fall-break trip jointly funded by Canadian Studies and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism, Deborah Amos and Simon Morrison travelled to Winnipeg with nine students to learn more about Canada’s approach to resettling refugees and its attitude toward those seeking asylum. Read student blogs and feature stories about their trip in The Winnipeg Free Press and CBC News. »
On Monday, November 6, 2017, the Program in American Studies and the Humanities Council will present a workshop titled “Dispatches from the Frontlines of Race, Gender, and American Media” by Tanzina Vega, Ferris Professor of Journalism and CNNMoney national reporter, who will discuss the reportorial process and research methodology of UPPITY, her forthcoming book on […] »
Deborah Amos, NPR News correspondent and a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism and lecturer in the Humanities Council, was named winner of the 2017 Courage in Journalism Award, presented by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). The award celebrates women journalists who set themselves apart through extraordinary bravery. The announcement was made at a private […] »
From his office in the fifth floor tower of Guyot Hall, home of the Department of Geosciences, John McPhee can look down through two vertical windows and see the office in McCosh Health Center where his father served as a medical doctor for Princeton University Athletics from 1928 until the late 1960s. McPhee, a Ferris […] »
The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program (SJP) brings high school students to Princeton to learn about journalism and to gain insights into preparing for college. Richard Just, former Ferris Professor of Journalism and current editor of The Washington Post Magazine, runs the program that he founded 16 years ago with three fellow alumni from the Class […] »
Princeton University’s Humanities Council and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism are pleased to announce the nine distinguished journalists who have been named visiting Ferris Professors for the 2017–2018 academic year. These writers and authors will come to Joseph Henry House straight from leading newsrooms, to teach an intensive seminar and contribute to the intellectual life […] »
The first spring break trip offered by the Ferris Seminars in Journalism was held last week. The eleven students in JRN 456: Local Reporting, which this semester looks to Paris as a case study, have just returned from the City of Lights, where they conducted interviews, did on-the-ground reporting, and contributed to a class blog […] »
The latest issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly includes a feature on Steve McNamara ’55, a Princeton alumnus who retired in 2004 after a nearly 40-year career as a newspaper publisher and entrepreneur. Since 2008, McNamara has regularly volunteered his journalism expertise to assist the inmates who produce the San Quentin News, the largest prison […] »
Tom Weber ’89, Executive Editor of TIME Magazine, president of the ‘Prince’ Board of Trustees and 2010 Ferris Professor of Journalism, spoke at Princeton Social Media Day about news, politics, social media and the increasing levels of polarization in today’s society. He focused on the importance of accuracy in reporting and the need for citizens […] »
The Humanities Council and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism presented the second in a series of panel discussions entitled “The Post-Fact Era?” on Thursday, March 2. This conversation among journalists who have reported from Iran, China, Pakistan, and Africa was co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and featured as panelists: Edward […] »
Apply by Monday, March 27 JRN 465 / HLS 465: Reporting on the Front Lines of History in Greece (SA) The Humanities Council invites you to join Princeton’s Ferris Seminars in Journalism in the summer of 2017 for a challenging, innovative course in which students will become eyewitnesses to history. Combining classroom work with field reporting, […] »
The Humanities Council and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism presented the first in a series of panel discussions entitled “The Post-Fact Era?” on Tuesday, February 21. This installment, co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values, featured scholars and journalists in conversation: Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for National Public Radio; Stephen Macedo, Politics and Human […] »
Four of the world’s most distinguished journalists have been named visiting Ferris Professors in the Humanities Council at Princeton University for Spring 2017. Drawn from leading newsrooms, the writers and authors each teach an intensive seminar and contribute to the intellectual life of campus. They join long-term faculty, Joe Stephens (The Washington Post) and John McPhee […] »
Daniel Teehan (’17) has published a commentary on solitary confinement on the website of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Marshall Project. Solitary confinement was the subject of a major project that Daniel reported and wrote for JRN 445: Investigative Reporting, with Professor Joe Stephens. Read the full story. »
Princeton University senior Aaron Robertson (Italian and African American Studies) has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. An alumnus of the Ferris Seminars in Journalism and a recipient of a Humanities Council Summer Internship Grant in Journalism, Robertson plans to pursue a career in translation, publishing, and journalism. […] »
The 2016 presidential campaign — a roller-coaster ride of surprises and uncertainty — will surely be studied by scholars and students for many years to come. But the 15 Princeton University undergraduates taking the journalism seminar “Politics and the Media: Covering the 2016 Campaign” are tackling the topic in real time — watching, studying and […] »
A major news service has published an in-depth article on Greece and the refugee crisis written by journalism student Alexandra Markovich ’17. Religion News Service (RNS) is distributed in the U.S. and abroad, and its material is carried by more than 100 news organizations, including The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. The article […] »
Beena Sarwar, Pakistani media expert and visiting Ferris journalist, was recently featured on WPRB 103.3 Princeton radio for a deep look into why the media functions as it does. She spoke about how the personal is political in a repressive system, the media’s ideal role in society (and how its operation as a business corrupts […] »
Students enrolled in the innovative global journalism course, “Reporting on the Front Lines of History,” traveled to Greece for five weeks this summer. While immersing themselves in Greek history and culture, students simultaneously gained on-the-ground knowledge of international relations, global politics and the essentials of foreign correspondence. Students spread across the Hellenic Republic, as a […] »
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During fall break, 10 journalism students traveled to sites in Alabama and Mississippi to report original stories for their course, Audio Journalism: The Art of Narrative Storytelling for Radio and Podcasts (JRN 450). They visited Montgomery, Selma, Jackson, and the rural community of Mound Bayou. Known as “the jewel of the Delta,” Mound Bayou is […] »
Twelve student journalists in International News: Migration Reporting (JRN 449) spent their fall break reporting from Canada. They traveled to the major cities of Winnipeg and Toronto, visited the small towns of Altona and Emerson, and went to asylum courts and community kitchens — all to capture and tell the stories of newcomers in the […] »
