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Continuing Education

Continuing Education

The Journalism School holds many workshops and conferences for professional journalists.


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Continuing Education Events This Fall


September 20 & 21, 2008
Investigative Reporting on Business and Finance

Learn how to uncover the secrets of companies and corporations. Sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the Sullivan Foundation

Pricing:
                                        Professionals                    Students
Both Days                           $125.00                             $50.00
One Day                              $75.00                               $30.00
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September 21, 2008 and September 28, 2008
Multimedia Storytelling For Beginners:
learn how to create multimedia stories using Sound & Images

In these two days participants will be taught how to use sound and images to tell a compelling multimedia story. Participants should leave with concrete skills, and a better understanding of the seismic changes transforming the news business. Lunch will be provided during each session and equipment for participants to work in teams of two.

Pricing:
                                       Columbia Journalism                           All Others
                                                       Alumni
Both Sessions                            $475.00                                                 $495.00
Single Session                           $275.00                                                 $295.00
Please indicate day: Sept. 21 or Sept. 28
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November 8-18, 2008
NEA Institute in Classical music and Opera

Twenty-four fellows will be selected for this outstanding institute. Participants will attend great performances at New York City’s top venues in addition to lectures & writing workshops given by distinguished music journalists and classical music experts.

Question? Call institute director Anya Grundmann 202-210-9494
More Information: www.journalism.columbia/edu/events/nea

Application Process is Now Closed

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November 20, 2008
Consumer Revolution on the Web:
Opportunities and Dangers for Journalism

A cutting-edge conference that will explore how the Web has revolutionized the way people “consume” everything from news to dishwashers to medical care. Journalists will gain new story ideas & new tools for doing stories. For both traditional and online journalists.

Pricing:
                                          Columbia Journalism                     All Others
                                                         Alumni
                                                          $70.00
Before October 6                                                                                  $70.00
After October 6                                                                                    $85.00

Registration Begins September 3, 2008

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Sulzberger Executive Leadership

The Punch Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program has begun its second year. The program offers a mix of theory and practice through a one-year performance challenge project.
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Spencer Education Fellowship

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Spencer Foundation have established the Spencer Fellowship for Education Reporting to enable education writers to spend a year at Columbia to develop a long-form reporting project to advance the understanding of the American education system.
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NEA Arts Journalism Institute

The NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera is an 11-day intensive workshop bringing writers and editors from across the country to New York City for a total immersion in classical music and opera.
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Let's Do It Better! - Race

The Let’s Do It Better! Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity fosters coherent, complete and courageous coverage of race and ethnicity in America as an urgent journalistic duty.
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Columbia Publishing Course

The shortest graduate school in the country trains young men and women for careers as editors, literary agents, publishers, designers, publicists, and more.
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Poliak Center First Amendment

The Center's programs and activities have been instrumental in making the First Amendment a core subject in the school's curriculum, as well as in educating and informing journalists, media executives, government officials and the general public on issues related to freedom of the press.
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Delacorte Center Lectures

The George T. Delacorte Center promotes and coordinates all activities related to magazine study within the School. The Center offers courses in magazine journalism; operates the Delacorte Magazine Lab; presents the lecture series and more.
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Hearst New Media Programs

Dialogues that look at the changing media industry, with an emphasis on new media and online journalism, assessing and tracking the changes taking place all around us.
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