Summer Study Abroad
About Program | Photos | Courses, Costs, & Dates | Contact Info | Info for Accepted Students
> Why Reporting Russia? | Housing | Faculty | RAJI | Links
Reporting Russia
Dates TBA
Application Deadline: March 15
Students are encouraged to get completed applications materials in on or before the March 15th deadline, since the visa process for Russia requires a significant lead time. No applications can be considered after this date.
Directors of the Program:
Christopher Harper, Roy H. Park Distinguished Chair of the School of Communications at Ithaca College
Mitchell Stephens, Professor of Journalism at New York University
Why Reporting Russia?
Based at the Russian-American Journalism Institute, this intensive, four-week program 
brings American and Russian journalism students together to collaborate on stories and experience journalism from diverse perspectives. Because this unique program is structured on collaboration, knowledge of Russian is not required for students to take on the challenges and rewards of international reporting.
With the assistance of interpreters and instructors from both Russia and the U. S., students have the opportunity to develop, research and report story ideas in the context of a foreign culture. At round table discussions, Russian students study samples of various styles of American journalism, while American students examine translations of excellent Russian journalism. Special seminars and featured guest speakers on such topics as literary journalism and investigative reporting enrich the dialogue between the students as well.
Along with this vigorous and enjoyable academic program, students are introduced to the local culture through numerous field trips, including visits to a nearby Cossack village, the birthplace of Chekov, and an overnight excursion to the Black Sea coast by train.
Housing
Students stay in a Russian dormitory a few minutes walk from the Institute. The dormitory is basic, but also very inexpensive; students should be prepared for this aspect of experiencing a foreign culture.
Faculty
Christopher Harper is the Roy H. Park Distinguished Chair of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He worked for more than 20 years for a variety of media outlets, including the Associated Press (Chicago), Newsweek (Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Beirut) and ABC News and ABC 20/20 (Cairo, Rome and New York). He has written four books on digital journalism and mass communications. Harper served as a Fulbright senior scholar in 2001 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, and has lectured in Japan and Israel. Contact Professor Harper: email
Mitchell Stephens is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His latest book, The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word, is a historical analysis of our current communications revolution and was published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Stephens is also the author of Broadcast News, the most widely used radio and television news textbook, and the co-author of Writing and Reporting the News. In recent years, he has written numerous articles on media issues and aspects of contemporary thought for publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review.
Professor Stephens recently completed a trip around the world during which he reported on globalization for the public radio program "Marketplace" and the webzine Feed. He also wrote essays on travel for LonelyPlanet.com. His commentaries have aired on National Public Radio's "On the Media." Professor Stephens also has been a consultant to the Newseum. Contact Professor Stephens: email
Other faculty to come..
About the Russian-American Journalism Institute (RAJI)
The Russian-American Journalism Institute--a joint program of Rostov State University, New York University and Ithaca College--brings together educators, journalists and advanced students from Russia and the United States to exchange ideas about how journalism is practiced and taught in both countries.
The Russian-American Journalism Institute provides an opportunity for the exchange of ideas about journalism in Russia and the United States. The institute brings together faculty and students from Rostov State University, New York University and Ithaca College and is intended to strengthen the curricula and to improve understanding of international journalism at the schools.
Five educators from Rostov State University traveled to Ithaca College for four months in 2003 to study journalistic methods and education. In the summer of 2003, a team of four faculty members and nine students from NYU and Ithaca College traveled to Rostov State University in Rostov, Russia. There, the U.S. faculty and students worked for one month with faculty and students from Russia.
In the fall of 2003, two more students from Rostov attended Ithaca College. Last summer, we continued the program by bringing 13 American students to Rostov.
The three-year program will continue to provide exchanges of faculty and students between the United States and Russia. Ultimately, we hope that the institute will continue as a way to examine the journalistic and educational techniques of both countries and to expand contacts about journalism education.
Links
NYU's Journalism Department hosts: |
 |