Overview

Key Features

The Cultural Reporting and Criticism program offered at New York University is dedicated to original, creative, cultural writing; The arts and books and popular culture; the immense variety of social groups, from gay families to Pakistani cabdrivers to obsessive gamers; the explosion of social controversies; the rise of religious fundamentalism, at home and abroad; the changing nature of war; the writer’s own experience: all this is fodder for the cultural journalist. Cultural journalism is for writers with an itch to understand connections—between news event and context, present and past, art and society, public and private. Over the last tumultuous decade, the need for such explorations has only intensified.

Journalism is not just about reporting on individual “news events.” More and more, it’s about getting a handle on the complicated reality that frames those events – the ever-shifting patterns of culture that determine how we live and what we make of our lives. As the mainstream media expand their cultural coverage and alternative publications and websites proliferate, there has never been more need for engaging, knowledgeable cultural reporting and analysis.

In 1995, cultural critic and longtime Village Voice writer Ellen Willis responded to the rapid growth of this field by launching a concentration in Cultural Reporting and Criticism within the Institute’s M.A. program. CRC is unique: the only graduate journalism program in the country specifically designed to prepare the next generation of cultural reporters and critics.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Writing and Reporting Workshop

The Cultural Conversation

The Critical Survey

Writing Social Commentary

The Longform Essay

Reporting Social Worlds

The Art of Argument and Polemic

The Critical Profile

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-04 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

Creative Writing Journalism Media Studies & Mass Media View 259 other Masters in Media Studies & Mass Media in United States

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

The Cultural Reporting and Criticism concentration in the Journalism Institute accepts candidates with bachelor’s degrees in any field and with a wide variety of experience.
We prefer candidates with a strong liberal arts background and at least a year of work or travel experience after graduation. We look for evidence of writing talent, the intellectual ability and motivation to handle a demanding graduate program, and engagement with the cultural issues and phenomena on which this specific concentration is focused. We look carefully at the whole of each candidate’s application, but place particular importance on the essay and writing samples.
Academic Transcripts
Test Scores (if required)
Applicant Statements
Résumé or Curriculum Vitae
Letters of Recommendation, and
A non-refundable application fee.

Tuition Fees

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56646 USD / year

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Living costs

New York City

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1819 - 3968 USD / month

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