News 21 is a product of the Carnegie-Knight national initiative and five of America's leading research universities. Designed to advance the U.S. news business by helping to revitalize schools of journalism, the initiative spurs the interaction of each school with their respective universities to better teach, challenge and prepare the next generation of news industry leaders. The "deans' manifesto" clarifies the goals.

NYC24 (pronounced "N-Y-C-two-four") brings you eight feature stories about NYC, centered around the theme of BODY. This collection of multi-media stories burst with the strange, sexy and fun things people do with their bodies. The site is entirely conceptualized, reported, shot, produced and edited by the students. NYC24 is the project of the new media workshop, which combines traditional reporting and writing skills with the best of online journalism.

NYCinteractive.org

The New Media Workshop recently launched the premiere issue of NYCInteractive.org, an online news magazine. What happened when Fashion Week and the Presidential Primaries collided in New York City? Six teams of multimedia journalists fanned out across the city to report on themes of politics and fashion. Students report these stories using new media - including written text, photography, audio and video.

The Columbia News Service operates as a feature syndicate. The stories are conceived, reported and written by students under the guidance of faculty members. The best ones are displayed on the ColumbiaJournalist.org Web site. These stories are also distributed by The New York Times News Service for publication in some 400 daily newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

This is the online student publication of the school. The stories are told via a range of media including print, radio, and TV broadcast. All students create stories based on their interviews and research in the field, but they know that only the best of these make it into this publication. The goal is to have their work published on this Web site for all the world -- the subjects of the stories, potential employers, proud parents -- to see.

The New York Review of Magazines (NYRM) is the culminating publication of a spring semester workshop in which students analyze the world of magazine journalism. They participate in all aspects of creating the publication, including photography, copy-editing, production, working on a business plan, etc. They produce a companion online version as well.

Students learn to write about the fascinating, complex education beat with clarity and depth. The course combines history with current issues and reporting strategies. Students spend one day a week inside a New York City public school, gaining first hand knowledge of how a school works from the boiler room to the classroom. Final writing projects for the course are published in a student-designed web magazine, called “School Stories.”

Each Thursday morning, 28 intrepid student reporters and producers get together to ask, "What are New Yorkers talking about this week?" Over the next 36 hours, a 30-minute newscast is researched, reported, edited and produced, before it is broadcast Friday evening. The result is Columbia News Tonight, which aims to bring you a kaleidoscope of local, national and international news and features.

"Covering Religion" prepares journalists to write about religion for a secular audience. The course looks at major religions today through case studies of how religion is evolving in different parts of the world. Each student is required to become the class expert on a specific faith or denomination. During the spring break, the class takes a 12-day study tour of the country and culture being studied.

The International Newsroom is an elective course taught by Ann Cooper, an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. The class brings together 20 M.S. students from around the globe. With them, they bring unique perspectives and backgrounds that make for interesting discussions on two central questions: What is news? And how is it reported?.

The Bronx Beat is a student-written, student-run weekly newspaper covering the people, issues and happenings of the city’s northernmost borough. Assisted by a team of adjunct professors who work at the city's dailies, the Bronx Beat staff publishes during the spring semester, covering topics from schools to sports to samba. In addition to a circulation in the Bronx of 6,000, the Bronx Beat is also widely circulated to the editors of the city’s weeklies and dailies.

This course combines the best of traditional reporting and editing with the latest new media storytelling techniques. Using a combination of original reporting as well as building on stories already done for RW1, students build three editions of a website, with each four-week project covering one specific issue affecting New Yorkers. Students work with several new media tools, including web page production; photography and image editing; audio and video editing; blogging, etc.

Students learn formats heard on the best commercial and public network broadcasts, in particular on National Public Radio news programs such as Morning Edition. Advanced courses stress on-air production and hosting skills. Broadcast programs include live coverage of national and local elections each November, a weekly news magazine January through May, occasional broadcasts of the Radio Documentary class and "Masters Project" long-form documentaries.

The publication titled 801 is the final product of a spring semester workshop in magazine production. Students write, edit, and fact-check their work and perform all the editorial functions of a magazine staff. They work individually and in teams, devising departments, assigning stories, gathering art, etc.The publication has an online counterpart as well.