Students who choose to specialize in urban reporting take four courses. The first, Covering City Government and Politics, is taken in their second semester.

The second is a required summer internship that follows the second semester. Among the media outlets where the School’s urban concentration students have spent their summers are: NY Daily News, Newsday, Newark Star-Ledger, The New York Times, City Limits, Crain’s New York Business, and WNYC. (Some choose, however, to do their internships in other cities or countries.)

In the third semester, students take Covering New York City’s Economy and Business, plus one of three urban electives. The three courses they can choose from are: Covering NYC’s Social Issues, Urban Investigative Reporting, and Urban Environmental Reporting.  While New York City is the focus of the courses in this concentration, the reporting and analytical skills students develop are of universal relevance and can be applied to other urban areas as well.