Make a Difference
Journalism at Emory emphasizes writing, reporting and critical thinking. The skills of newspaper and electronic journalism go hand-in-hand with study in the liberal arts and sciences. The result is journalists who make a difference!
Journalism co-majors or minors learn the craft of researching, interviewing, reporting and writing news. They develop an understanding of press issues and build a technical foundation. Students advance and refine that know-how in professional internships.
Journalism at Emory is a special selection program. Every semester students can apply for admission to the Program.
The Journalism Program also offers the opportunity to study specialty writing and reporting. Interdisciplinary classes in science writing, economics and business reporting, arts criticism, international media, and race and ethnic relations are open to students from all disciplines. Most Journalism courses fulfill the post-freshman writing requirement. These courses focus on writing for the general public.
Protecting Confidential Sources
Now More Difficult
Journalists are living in a “fairy world” if they think the first amendment provides them protection to keep their sources confidential, says one of the leading legal media experts in the country in a recent address to Emory journalism students and faculty.
Lee Levine, a partner in a prestigious Washington D.C law firm and someone who has represented media clients for more than 25 years says “the world has turned on its head in the last five years” regarding judicial reviews of reporter privilege.
“Recent court rulings have put journalists in a really terrible position,” Levine says. Read more
Politics and Reporting Science Accurately
Journalism Senior Lecturer Kris Wilson says journalists and weathercasters have become more accurate in covering the science of global warming but need to avoid politicizing the issue, using imprecise technology and focusing only on isolated weather events.
In his lecture entitled “How Politics Pollute the Communication of Accurate Science,” Dr. Wilson reviewed the evolution of his own research on science journalism over the past two decades and how the subject is reported and discussed in today’s media milieu. Read more >>
Congratulations 2008 Graduates!
ALLISON KERI BECKER
TIMOTHY BRIAN BURNSED
GREGORY MAX CHALFIN
DANE GARRET COHEN
JENNIFER LYNN DICLEMENTE
CAROLINE ELIZABETH DUNCAN
MINOO HOSSEINI
EUNICE JOY LEE
SUSAN ELISE MCMILLAN
CHRISTOPHER HAIG MEGERIAN
NATALIE ANTOINETTE MILLER
ROBYN PAMELA MOHR
JESSIE ELISABETH POUNDS
JACLYN ILANA SCHREIBER
KATHRYN DIANE SPENCER
STEVEN AARON STEIN
RACHEL LAUREN ZELKOWITZ
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