Computer Labs
The Journalism School provides several Mac and PC labs for use by Journalism students. Some of these labs are equipped with specialty software required by various radio, broadcasting and new media courses. Other labs provide only basic Adobe editing and Microsoft Office software as a service to those students who do not have their own computers and to supplement the course-specific “specialty” labs. Please note that the availability of lab computers can become limited during peak periods of the semester, and students are highly recommended to purchase their own laptops.

Mac Labs and Resource Rooms

The Journalism school is equipped with Power Macs, iMacs and Mac Pro computers which are located in four main Mac labs and several other rooms available to Journalism students. The room locations and number of computers provided are:

  1. 107 – Student Hub/Study Area (12 iMacs)
  2. 107A - Student Center Lab      (18 iMacs)
  3. 107C – PhD Suite                    (4 iMacs)
  4. 511A,H,I – Radio Edit Suites   (one Mac Pro per suite, 3 total)
  5. 511B – Radio Lab                    (21 Mac Pros)
  6. 511C - New Media Lab           (19 Mac G5s) 
  7. 801 - 801Mag and Photography Lab    (21 G5s)  

Each Mac lab within the Journalism School contains as a minimum the following software:

  • OS X Tiger
  • MS Office 2003 for Mac
  • Fugu
  • Firefox web browser
  • Realplayer
  • iLife ‘07
  • Windows Media Player
  • QuickTime 7 Professional
  • Adobe Creative Suites 3 Design Premium (except for Lab 511B)

In addition to the above standard software, the following Mac labs also contains specialty software:

Lab 511B (Radio)
  • ENPS for AP wires (runs under Parallels with Microsoft XP)
  • Please note that Adobe CS 3 is not installed in this lab

Lab 511C (New Media)

  • Final Cut Pro 2.0

PC Labs

The Journalism school is equipped with Dell Precision 380 and GX270 PC’s which are located in four main Mac labs and several other rooms available to Journalism students. The room locations and number of computers provided are:

  1. 403 – Avid              (7 Dell Precisions)
  2. 501 – Avid              (19 Dell Precisions)
  3. 504B-G, 504L-O – Avid Edit Suites (one Precision 380 per suite, 10 total)
  4. 601A - Bronx Beat lab (20 GX270s)
  5. 607C - Stabile Investigative Journalism lab (20 GX270s)

Each lab PC within the Journalism School contains as a minimum the following software:

  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
  • Adobe Creative Suites 3 Design Premium
  • MS Office 2004
  • MS Office Converter
  • Firefox web browser
  • Realplayer
  • Windows Media Player
  • Symantec Antivirus

In addition to the above “universal” software found on all PC’s, the following specialty software is also available in the following PC labs:

 

Lab 601A (Bronx Beat)

  • QuickTime 7 Professional

Lab 607C (Investigative Journalism)

  • QuickTime 7 Professional

About the Software:

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software with Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Stock Photos, Adobe Device Central CS3, and Adobe Acrobat Connect.