Events

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. in McClatchy Hall, room 452.

Lectures & Symposia

MAY17

#Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News
4:15pm, Vidalakis Room, Schwab Residential Center

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Guest Speakers

APR4

Howard Mortman
C-SPAN director of new media strategies

APR19

Christine Larson
Accomplished freelance journalist and Stanford Communication PH.d student

APR25

Olivia Ma
YouTube news manager

MAY2

Clay Lambert
Half Moon Bay Review editor

MAY9

Tim O'Brien
Huffington Post executive editor

MAY16

Katy Newton and Sean Connelley
Multimedia journalists

MAY23

David Cohn
Spot.us founder

MAY30

Georgia Wells
Student, Stanford Graduate Program in Journalism, on her reporting experiences in Egypt

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Journalism @ Stanford

The Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford is currently housed in the Department of Communication, where the program has evolved dynamically over 30 years of historic change and continues to educate future journalists of the print and digital world.

Why choose Stanford's Graduate Program in Journalism? Current and former students share why they did.

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News & Press

  • Nicole Perlroth ('08) wrote a piece for the New York Times Bits Blog examining how Silicon Valley Venture Capital giant Andreessen Horowitz missed a chance to invest in Instagram.
  • Congratulations Amanda Schwab ('11) whose startup, The Phenom List, was just acquired by PandoDaily.
    Amanda started this company with a team of students in the journalism program's 2011 Digital Media Entrepreneurship class less than a year ago!

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Courses

Journalists on Journalism The Graduate Seminar: Journalists on Journalism
The Graduate Seminar (Comm 291) provides a discussion forum for students and working journalists to present and exchange views on the most current and emerging trends, issues, and practices in the communications industry. Professional journalists and news experts are frequently invited as guests to share their expertise and practical insights relevant to the challenges impacting the rapidly changing media landscape. Student reporters produce podcasts and videos of these dynamic exchanges.

Peninsula Press Peninsula Press
A news and multimedia news site covering Silicon Valley communities produced by students in the Public Issues Reporting (Comm 273/274) and Multimedia Storytelling (Comm 275) classes, in partnership with The San Francisco Chronicle and The Bay Citizen. VIDEO

Digital Journalism @ Stanford Digital Journalism
Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Digital Journalism (Comm 217) will explore how traditional narratives can be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays.

Digital Media Entrepreneurship Video Digital Media Entrepreneurship
DME (Comm 240) pushes the envelope and examines entrepreneurial nature of the power shift in the news business. What does it mean for journalists, media practitioners, entrepreneurs and technologists? Students work in small, interdisciplinary teams to conceptualize, prototype and launch sustainable digital media ventures.

Multimedia Storytelling Multimedia Storytelling
View a selection of student videos from Geri Migielicz's Multimedia Storytelling classes. Here are the new featured stories from last year (on the Stanford Journalism YouTube channel).

Social Media Classroom Logo Social Media Classroom
Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos.