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The Interactive Environmental Journalism M.A. program at the Reynolds School of Journalism is three-semester intensive program for students who have a journalism degree and/or experience in professional journalism and who want to help invent the next forms of journalism.

Our program focuses on three key principles:

(1) To be successful in the future, journalism needs to reconnect with citizens and communities

(2) Web 2.0 and multimedia technologies offer innovative possibilities for new forms of connection between citizens and between citizens and journalists

(3) The environment is a key policy issue that makes an excellent subject for experiments in new forms of journalism

Unlike master degree programs that focus on the individual student’s goals and interests, our program creates a collaborative environment in which faculty and students work together to address questions related to the issues we’ve identified: how to create a journalism more in tune with public life and better able to address the pressing issues of the 21st century.

The journalists who complete this program will:

• Sharpen their knowledge of environmental issues and science
• Master a range of interactive new media tools
• Gain insight into how ordinary citizens connect to public affairs
• Analyze how experts and activists think
• Gain valuable experience in managing innovation

We believe that for journalism to survive and thrive in ways that matter to citizens, we need to question old assumptions, think creatively, challenge ourselves to come up with new ways of working and test our ideas with hands on experiments in real communities.

The degree requires completing 33 credits of course work, including developing, designing and implementing a professional project that experiments with a key journalistic question of your choice within the parameters of the program. The process concludes with the successful completion of a professional paper.