Journalism in Boston
From the red brick of Beacon Hill to the glass walls of the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston is a city that appreciates its past while embracing its future. And nowhere is that more evident than in the city's media landscape. Boston is one of the country's few remaining two-newspaper towns. The Boston Globe, famous for its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the Catholic Church scandal, faces off daily against the scrappy tabloid Boston Herald. The Boston Phoenix, an award-winning alternative weekly, vies for student readers with the humorous Weekly Dig, while suburbanites rely on the consumer-friendly Boston Magazine and dozens of local newspapers. On the dial, WBUR-FM, Boston's National Public Radio affiliate, is famous for its locally produced shows, including "Car Talk" and "On Point." The city also boasts five local television affiliates each producing a nightly newscast.
If you choose to pursue a graduate degree at Northeastern, you will join this vibrant journalistic community. You will learn from the city's top reporters, editors, bloggers, graphic designers, speech writers, public relations representatives, producers and anchors. You will tap into our faculty's broad and deep connections across New England and throughout the United States. You will have an opportunity to work for pay at one of the scores of publications and companies affiliated with our cooperative education program. You will connect with our faithful alumni, who can be found at many of the dailies, weeklies, magazines, alternative newspapers and broadcast stations in this area, as well as in communications offices of elected officials and public and private public relations firms. Their story is our story, and will become yours as well.