<p>What are the top college newspapers or magazines? What schools provide a newspaper experience that creates great contacts and opportunities? Also, which ones are not as competitive to get a job in, but are highly respected, and are connected to great J-schools? Thanks.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, just look it up, there are many threads on this.....</p>
<p>UFlorida, it's not hard to get involved with the Alligator (the school newspaper) and UF has a highly ranked (top 10) journalism school. A lot former writers go on to write for well-known newspapers and magazines. I believe it is one of the largest college newspapers in the nation. You should look into it.</p>
<p>Other schools to consider: Ivies, Maryland, UNC, Missouri, Virginia</p>
<p>GatorEng, are you involved with the newspaper? Thanks, more opinions, please.</p>
<p>No, I'm an engineering major, but I have a few friends who are involved and they love the experience. One is a sports writer, so he gets to travel around the SEC to cover all the games and interview players and such. Another is an opinions writer, so she gets her own weekly column to write about what she wants. It's not hard to get involved, they usually hold a seminar in the beginning of the school year with information for prospective writers.</p>
<p>Wow, I actually want to become a sports writer. That is what I want to go to school for. Could you get me info from your friend on how he is preparing and what sports journalism programs UF has to offer. That would be great thanks!</p>
<p>If your looking for a great paper plus a great way to get into the industry through contacts, don't look past Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern if you have the stats to apply</p>
<p>All great papers plus great schools with large alumni bases, prestigious degrees, and talented students that you will learn alot from.</p>
<p>An aside, Duke's paper in particular got a lot of attention for its reporting during the false lacrosse accusation thing this past year. Lots of its reporters showed up on national television (including a couple of sophomores or freshmen, as well as top editors and columnists). Which doesn't mean much since the situation is wrapped up, but employers might pay attention to that sort of thing and like reading about such experiences on a resume.</p>
<p>Yale, and not just because it's an Ivy.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill's Daily Tarheel is consistently viewed/ranked as one of the top college newspapers in the country.</p>
<p>if you want to be a sports journalist look at syracuse. half of espn went there.</p>
<p>I think Yale has the best...you should read their paper online...</p>
<p>This has all been great info.Bennyblanco my goal is to write for Sports Illustrated. Your advice has been great.</p>
<p>BTW- as should be obvious, the quality of the paper changes from year to year</p>
<p>The best paper today might have low quality freshmen reporters, and a mediocre party might have a breakout year.</p>
<p>So picking based on what school has the best paper right now isn't that good an idea as "best" is ambiguous - look at size of staff, budget, circulation, etc. as well</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>northwestern has a strong journalism program--> good newspaper i think.
but i had the same question.</p>
<p>According to Princeton Review for best college newspapers:
1 Yale University<br>
2 University of Arizona<br>
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br>
4 Howard University<br>
5 University of Pennsylvania<br>
6 University of Georgia<br>
7 University of Maryland-College Park<br>
8 Harvard College<br>
9 Indiana University at Bloomington<br>
10 The University of Texas at Austin<br>
11 Syracuse University<br>
12 Northwestern University<br>
13 Penn State--University Park<br>
14 Duke University<br>
15 West Virginia University<br>
16 Louisiana State University<br>
17 Texas A&M University-College Station<br>
18 Michigan State University<br>
19 University of California-Los Angeles<br>
20 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities</p>
<p>PR is wrong about everything all the time...or at least, the students that they poll are :)</p>
<p>For example, Minnesota's paper is definitely better than West Virginia, atleast based on all the national college press competitions last year. Its not even a question. Sigh.</p>
<p>Of course, if you are a journalist, you know that you should take everything with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I do believe it is based on how many students read the newspaper/how popular it is :)</p>
<p>Northwestern :)</p>
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