About the School

Photo/Claire Holt

Soterios Johnson '97

Host and anchor, NPR's “Morning Edition” on WNYC
New York Public Radio

I already had some experience in radio before I enrolled in the journalism school's M.S. program. I wanted to expand my skill-set as a journalist in radio, television, print, or new media. I wanted to hone my journalism skills, and Columbia gave me that opportunity, offering me deep and broad training in a concentrated period of time. Experienced journalists and working professionals are your teachers, instructing you in the basics of journalism. Columbia gives its students the rare opportunity to sit at the knee of great writers and journalists and learn how they craft their work. You study with top-notch instructors who will look at your work critically, put it through the wringer, and make it better in the process. You gain experience that that would have taken much longer in the "real world." My time at Columbia helped me to get to advance to the next level of my career quickly and efficiently.