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</div><div></div><div>2015 hmn</div><div> lists upon lists for nearly every professional school spread across the internet, but for some reason it’s incredibly difficult to come across any definitive list of top graduate journalism schools in the country.<span id="more-2337" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />When I first started looking for a program a couple years back I couldn’t find any recent list of top performing, innovative programs with discernible information laid out.  I knew that I wanted a hands-on program, but I also wanted to attend an accredited and respected institution.I came across a ton of “Top Undergraduate Journalism Schools” lists, but not much of anything for Graduate schools.  To help out those who find themselves in a similar position I’ve put together a list of the top graduate level journalism schools, to make the hunt a little easier.  I weighed the pros and cons of each school taking into account the success of alums, professors, and curriculum, to come up with a list of the 10 most groundbreaking programs.  They’re listed below in alphabetical order.<a href="http://www.american.edu/soc/journalism/degrees/MA-JUPA.cfm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">American University</a> – Washington D.C.The M.A. program is 11 months long and starts with a three-week boot camp.  Students hone their digital storytelling skills through intensive classes in writing, editing, production and research.<a href="http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">CUNY Graduate School of Journalism</a> – New York, NYThe CUNY J-School is situated in midtown Manhattan a few blocks from Times Square.  The program offers three tracks with two one-and-a-half year M.A. programs in journalism and entrepreneurial journalism, and another year long program in social journalism.  Students also work a three-month long internship between their spring and final fall semester with a guaranteed $3,000 paid stipend.  (This is my alma mater.)<a href="http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Columbia Graduate School of Journalism</a> – New York, NYThe Columbia j-school is another example of an immersive program that allows students to hit the ground with reporting in multiple mediums.  Whether it video or writing, students are fully trained during the two-semester program to follow a story through from start to finish.<a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/graduate/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New York University</a> – New York, NYThe j-school at NYU offers 10 courses of study including business and economic reporting, cultural reporting and criticism and news and documentary to name a few.<a href="http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/msj/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Northwestern University</a> – Evanston, ILThere are two different programs offered at the Medill School at Northwestern, one in journalism and another in integrated marketing communication.  The year long program offers tracks in social justice, sports and global affairs reporting, to name a few.<a href="http://newhouse.syr.edu/admissions/graduate/masters-programs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Syracuse University</a> – Syracuse, NYThe Newhouse School offers 13 professional tracks for students ranging from 12 to 14 months long, and 18 months for photography students.<a href="http://journalism.berkeley.edu/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism</a> – Berkeley, CAThe j-school at the University of California offers a two-years masters program in journalism.<a href="http://merrill.umd.edu/masters-journalism" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Maryland</a> – College Park, MDThe program at the Philip Marrill School of Journalism is broken down into three tracks; multi-platform journalism, broadcast news and returning journalists for newsroom veterans.  The program culminates in either a master of journalism degree or a master of arts degree (thesis included) and range from 12 to 15 months long.<a href="http://journalism.missouri.edu/admissions/graduate/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Missouri</a> – Columbia, MOThe Missouri School of Journalism awarded the first masters and doctoral degrees in journalism in the world back in 1921 and 1934 respectively.  Since then, many students have gone through their doors to study one of the 20-plus two-years masters programs, two online masters programs or six doctoral programs, all in journalism.<a href="http://jomc.unc.edu/academics/graduate-studies" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a> – Chapel Hill, NCThe school offers two master’s degrees and one doctoral degree in mass communication and journalism.<a href="https://journalism.wisc.edu/graduate/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Wisconsin</a> – Madison, WIThe School of Journalism and Mass Communication offer a handful of master and doctoral level programs for students interested in taking their learning to the next level.</div><div></div><div>http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_millions_spread_influence_through_nonprofits/...<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; border-width: 0px 0px 4px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(181, 18, 27); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-transform: uppercase;">INFLUENCING THE NEXT GENERATION</h2><p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">The Kochs have been involved in influencing higher education for more than 30 years, beginning with what is now called the Mercatus Center and the Institute for Humane Studies, both based at George Mason University in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. Between 2007 and 2011, the Kochs gave <a href="http://bit.ly/14zToct" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">$30.5 million to 221 universities </a>through their charitable foundations. More than half of that giving, roughly $16 million, has gone to George Mason University and its foundation. Recently, however, the Koch brothers’ influence has expanded outside Northern Virginia and created potential conflicts of interest for the universities accepting their donations.<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">The May-June 2012 issue of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a href="http://www.aaup.org/article/fine-print-restrictive-grants-and-academic-freedom#.UdARVT7TWqw" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">Academe</a>, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors, focused on corporate influence in higher education. Kent Miller and Ray Bellamy wrote about the Koch influence in the Florida State University economics department. The Charles G. Koch Foundation offered to give the university $1.5 million to hire two assistant professors and fund fellowships and undergraduate curriculum on free-enterprise topics. The foundation appointed an advisory board that would award money to faculty and make sure that the work they completed fit with the foundation’s mission. Miller and Bellamy wrote, “In exchange for his ‘gift,’ the donor got to assign specific readings, select speakers brought to campus and instruct them with regard to the focus of their lectures, shape the curriculum with new courses and specify the number of students in the courses, name the program’s director, and initiate a student club.”<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">It’s not just at Florida State, which was a high-profile case, but also at other universities where the Kochs and John Allison, retired chairman and CEO of the financial institution BB&T, have donated money. Allison is on the board of directors at the Mercatus Center, which is funded by the Kochs, and following an intense fight in which the Kochs backed him, is now the president of the Cato Institute. BB&T sponsors chaired professors, typically in economics departments, and the universities where they sponsor a chaired professor often line up with where the Kochs donate.<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">An Investigative Reporting Workshop analysis found that the Kochs had donated to 10 universities where there were BB&T-chaired professors, including West Virginia University, Clemson University and smaller universities, such as Hampden-Sydney College and Barton College. According to Inside Higher Ed in 2011, Clemson “spent several years cultivating the Charles G. Koch Foundation to support its Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, and has received $1 million thus far.”<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">At the core of the Kochs’ philosophy are the works of Ayn Rand, the objectivist philosopher and author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” (Rand’s writings are also emblematic of the readings recommended to students by the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University). The new course that the Charles G. Koch Foundation wanted approved at Florida State was called “Market Ethics: The Vices, Virtues, and Values of Capitalism,” featuring the work of Rand as required by the memorandum of understanding. Through their charitable foundations, the Kochs gave $100,000 to the Ayn Rand Institute from 2009 to 2011.<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">And in the interest of full disclosure, in the course of this investigation, we discovered that American University, where the Investigative Reporting Workshop is based (within the School of Communication), received $17,500 in two separate grants from the Charles G. Koch Foundation. The university’s Office of Special Programs (OSP) reports that both grants are for a program called “Lectures in Classical Liberalism,” which is under the direction of Tom Merrill and Alan Levine. Both professors are in the School of Public Affairs.<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">OSP said the following language describes the program that the grants supported:<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">“We seek to build on and expand the program of lectures in classical liberalism funded by the Koch Foundation to date. At least two of these lectures would be designated “Koch Lectures on Classical Liberalism”; all of the funded lectures, however, will discuss some aspect of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/_{achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Classical_liberalism.html}" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">classical liberalism</a> whether in its theoretical and historical roots or in its contemporary applications. This series of lectures is primarily designed to encourage our students to have a sustained engagement with the ideas of classical liberalism, and secondarily at presenting an opportunity for classical liberal ideas to be heard in the larger university community and the D.C. policy conversation. To that end, we also require our speakers to meet and take questions from our students in an informal session separate from the public lecture, either in one of our classes or in a breakfast or lunch session during the speaker’s campus visit.”<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22.4px;">...
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