<p>Hi I'm a sophomore in HS currently browsing through colleges in my interest for study-journalism. </p>
<p>For those who go to Yale, or if anyone has any information about the Journalism classes Yale offers, it would be greatly helpful to a 'newbie' in college reaserch. </p>
<p>Also has anyone heard any updates from the Journalism Initiative that Yale was planning on building?</p>
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Also has anyone heard any updates from the Journalism Initiative that Yale was planning on building?
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<p>Here you go: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/bass/journalism/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/bass/journalism/index.html</a></p>
<p>Thank you Booklady!</p>
<p>Has anyone currently in Yale particiapted in the Journalism Innitiative?</p>
<p>I'm trying to gain as much information as possible, and any adivce would also be great.</p>
<p>Yale has the best journalism program in the country.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>The best journalism "program" out there is the best liberal arts college you can get into, preferably one with a great college paper like Yale or Harvard. Look at the top reporters and journalists - most of them went to top LACs like Yale, Harvard, Amherst and Wellesley, and earned degrees in areas such as English or Political Science. Very few actually went to journalism "programs."</p>
<p>The Yale Daily News Magazine was my "journalism program" when I was a student. It was invaluable,
Journalists should be able to bring something to the table, not just the "preprofessional" training offered at J schools.
A liberal arts education is what will enable you to tackle the issues. I don't recall ever hiring a J school graduate over a comparative literature or history major in my 20 years as a newspaper and magazine editor.
I studied comp lit and teach it now at an Ivy League school. My former students' bylines in major publications prove my point.</p>
<p>New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson will teach a journalism seminar this spring under the auspices of the Yale Journalism Initiative. </p>
<p>The course, which is designed for students who are considering pursuing journalism as a career, will be the analogue of Steven Brill's '72 LAW '75 journalism class, which he has taught for the past five years and is offering this fall. Brill, the founder of both The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV, and his wife Cynthia Margolin Brill '72 provided the grant earlier this year that helped found the Initiative, which aims to encourage students to influence society through journalism...</p>
<p>I'm amazed that Yale actually got a Time magazine editor to teach a class! That's my dream job- writing for Time magazine! The links and information have been extravagantly useful. Old Campus I see your point completely; I believe that it's not just the education that helps, but also what effort and will you put into a field. </p>
<p>I’m so delighted that Yale has started its journalism program. I can’t wait until I get the chance to participate in it, that is if I get accepted.</p>
<p>If you find any more links, please keep posting them here. I want to get to know this program as much as I can and grateful for any help I recieve.</p>
<p>not Time - bur rather the <em>New York Times</em> </p>
<p>Time was founded though by a Yale alumn, Henry Luce.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce</a></p>
<p>Sorry, I got a little jaded for a minute because of the responses I've been recieveing that have essentially been very helpful to me. I ironically just found that link about Time's founder was a Yale student before i viewed the post. Small world, haha.</p>
<p>Just a suggestion: majoring in journalism (even though you can't at Yale) is NOT a good idea. I know people who've done it, and I'm really involved in journalism...all the major teaches you about is how to write a good lead, how to deal with anonymous sources, and how to page design. You can learn that in HIGH SCHOOL journalism. Majoring in something broad like political sci or int'l relations would be more helpful. Walter Cronkite said it himself :)
That being said...good luck!!!</p>