The media landscape is changing dramatically. A Medill graduate degree equips you to navigate these changes and to be successful, no matter how the journalism world evolves.
The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University offers a program that combines the enduring skills and values of journalism with new techniques and knowledge that are essential to thrive in a digital world. You'll join a diverse group of students who are energized by many different motives and ambitions. In journalism, no single size fits all. You can find your niche at Medill.
Perhaps your goal is to expose wrongdoing through investigative reporting, or to give voice to the voiceless. You might have a passion for creating finely-crafted prose, or for telling stories with visual tools. Maybe you are invigorated by the possibilities of interactive publishing, or by videography for the small screen.
Perhaps you want to be a specialist reporter or a magazine editor; maybe a broadcast producer or a new media entrepreneur. Or perhaps you don't see your exact path clearly yet, but-like all your Medill classmates-you share a passion for journalistic storytelling, a creative instinct and a commitment to do good in the world.
Medill is the place for you. And Medill has the people for you.
Our full-time faculty are seasoned professionals with extensive industry contacts and knowledge. We draw on the rich resources of the Chicago journalism community for accomplished adjuncts who have specialized experience in reporting, photography, videography, documentary, non-fiction narrative, investigative reporting, magazine design and editing, Web design and many other aspects of the contemporary journalistic craft.
What makes MEDILL different?
At Medill, you will have the opportunity to:
• Create a news show for large and small screens
• Learn the ins and outs of business reporting
• Build an online community
• Help media companies solve thorny problems
• Work for a term at a global news organization
• Use new tools to tell compelling stories
• Craft a documentary
• Put a magazine together from concept to content to sales
• Help ordinary people understand complicated issues in science and health
• Pound a beat in Chicago or D.C.
• Finding your voice in long-form narrative
A Medill degree is one of the strongest credentials a journalist can possess.
You'll be able to go farther, faster in a rapidly-changing profession where there is a growing range of opportunities in new and traditional media. Medill graduates are highly-sought by employers in all media sectors. A sampling of the recruiters who visit us: Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires, Harpo, Inc., Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast, ESPN, Esquire Magazine, Fox News, Google Inc., Rodale, Rolling Stone, Southern Living, The Miami Herald, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Our alumni look out for each other. The Medill network of alumni and faculty contacts works wonders when you are looking for your first job, seeking to change jobs or simply looking for advice from the pros.
