The media landscape is changing dramatically. A Medill graduate degree equips you to navigate these changes and to be successful, no matter how the journalism world evolves.

Medill graduates are not just able practitioners, but future leaders. They’re the people who will shape the journalism of the future and the enterprises that support it. They’ll discover new kinds of news, and new ways of telling it. They’ll find new ways to connect people with the news they need to make better decisions.

Your professors will teach you not just how to do journalism today, but how to understand the forces that are shaping the environment in which you’ll work. Frankly, we believe you’d be short-changed in a graduate-level program if you didn’t learn about how consumers use media, what their news and information needs and motivations are, how the media landscape is being transformed and how media businesses work.

Medill—through its close relationships with the Media Management Center, Kellogg School of Management, and McCormick School of Engineering—is uniquely qualified to deliver on its promises.

Perhaps your goal is to expose wrongdoing through investigative reporting, or to give voice to the voiceless. You might have a passion for creating finely-crafted prose, or for telling stories with visual tools. Maybe you are invigorated by the possibilities of interactive publishing, or by videography for the small screen.

Medill is the place for you. And Medill has the people for you.

Our full-time faculty are seasoned professionals with extensive industry contacts and knowledge. We draw on the rich resources of the Chicago journalism community for accomplished adjuncts who have specialized experience in reporting, photography, videography, documentary, non-fiction narrative, investigative reporting, magazine design and editing, Web design and many other aspects of the contemporary journalistic craft.

A Medill degree is one of the strongest credentials a journalist can possess.

You’ll be able to go farther, faster in a rapidly-changing profession where there is a growing range of opportunities in new and traditional media. Medill graduates are highly-sought by employers in all media sectors. A sampling of the recruiters who visit us: Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires, Harpo, Inc., Hearst–Argyle Television, Inc., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast, ESPN, Esquire Magazine, Fox News, Google Inc., Rodale, Rolling Stone, Southern Living, The Miami Herald, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Our alumni look out for each other. The Medill network of alumni and faculty contacts works wonders when you are looking for your first job, seeking to change jobs or simply looking for advice from the pros