The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism will launch an innovative reporting seminar based in Athens, Greece, in Summer 2025. “Shockwaves: Climate, Migration, and Culture in Greece,” co-taught by longtime journalist […] »
The Program in Journalism at Princeton University will welcome Andrea Bernstein, Vinson Cunningham, and Channing Joseph as Visiting Lecturers in the Humanities Council and Ferris Professors of Journalism in spring […] »
Eliza Griswold (Journalism) has been named a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction for “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American […] »
Eliza Griswold is the director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and a Ferris Professor of Journalism. Her latest book “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and […] »
This fall, the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism presents a full slate of topical events featuring leading journalists and writers in conversation about pressing issues in the media today. The […] »
The Humanities Council celebrates seniors in the Class of 2024 who were awarded 73 certificates and seven independent majors across five Council undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, […] »
The Program in Journalism at Princeton University will welcome three distinguished journalists as visiting professors in the 2024-25 academic year. These innovative writers and reporters will each teach an intensive […] »
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, translator, and poet Eliza Griswold has been named director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism at Princeton. Her appointment will take effect August 1. Griswold has […] »
The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism announced a slate of lunch talks and public events for the spring semester, which will examine pressing issues in today’s media. The program will […] »
Princeton University senior Sam Harshbarger has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Harshbarger, of Cranbury, New Jersey, is concentrating in history and is […] »
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 […] »
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! […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
“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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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. […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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. […] »
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, […] »
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, […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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, […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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, […] »
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, […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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, […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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. […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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, […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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 […] »
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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 […] »
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 […] »
