Club Overview elcome to the homepage for the Journalism and Media Career Club at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Whether you came to SAIS with an interest in pursuing a career in journalism or you are just interested in learning more about how the media works, this is the right place for you. Although SAIS does not have a formal journalism program, many students who are interested in journalism chose to come to SAIS anyway instead of journalism school. We believe that they made the right choice. In an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Last, an editor for The Weekly Standard, observes that graduate journalism programs emphasize the process and “craft” of writing instead of educating students about the substance of what they will actually be writing about. “Instead of educating future journalists on the nuts and bolts of journalism—because let's be honest, it isn't rocket science or even carpentry—it would make more sense simply to teach them things. Facts, it turns out, are useful. Most people can write a nut graph after 30 minutes of practice, but comparatively few people can explain, say, econometrics, or fluid dynamics, or the history of the French Revolution. Aspiring journalists don't need trade-craft—they need a liberal-arts education that gives them a base of mastery in actual academic subjects.”
We couldn’t agree more. The education that we are receiving at SAIS—with its focus on regional and functional issues and its basis in international economics—is ideal for students who are interested in international reporting. With that in mind, we seek to promote SAIS as a feeder school into media positions and believe that more students at SAIS should consider a career in journalism and media. So while SAIS provides the educational grounding in international relations, the Journalism and Media Career Club will work to bring working journalist to campus to discuss their trade, offer workshops to equip students with the necessary skills for reporting, provide networking opportunities for students to meet with future employers as well as possible informational sources and generally make SAIS students attractive to newspapers, magazines and other media sources. Contact: TBD
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