Medill’s one-year MSJ plunges reporters into beat immersion from day one, pairing narrative craft with Python-powered data digs and 360-video storytelling. Students uncover corruption through FOIA workshops, build audience-first TikTok explainers, and code interactive maps that shift public policy. Six-month residencies embed cohorts in Pulitzer-winning newsrooms, investigative nonprofits, or global bureaus, while Medill’s Knight Lab lets them prototype tools that fight misinformation. Graduates leave with a portfolio that spans documentary podcasts, scraping pipelines, and augmented-reality photo essays, ready to reshape journalism’s business and ethics alike.
Scrape and analyze municipal TIF spending to reveal inequitable school funding
Visualize Indigenous land dispossession with animated cartograms and oral histories
Build an open-source browser plug-in detecting AI-generated political images
Produce a five-part podcast on maternal-mortality gaps in rural America
Deploy drones and photogrammetry to document coastal erosion of historic sites
Mine PAC filings to map dark-money flows into local ballot measures
Design a chatbot that demystifies court procedures for pro-se litigants
Construct an interactive timeline of police-misconduct settlements by union clause
Publish a solutions-focused series on circular-economy startups diverting textile waste
Use NLP to flag misleading claims in live gubernatorial debates
Create a VR newsroom simulation training reporters on protest-field safety
Investigate labor conditions in AI click-farm labeling operations abroad
Launch a newsletter translating complex climate policy into actionable steps
Compare eviction trends by landlord portfolio size using scraped docket data
Prototype a blockchain registry ensuring authenticity of eyewitness footage
Break stories that matter and innovate the newsroom with Medill’s MSJ.
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