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Photo Journalism

This is not photography school, it is combat-level visual journalism training. Work directly with award-winning industry experts whose images have appeared in TIME, National Geographic, and beyond. Alongside rigorous photo training, you will master sound, communications, multimedia storytelling, writing, and design. You will not just document history, you will define how it is seen.

Courses and Events

Light & Concept

Light does not just illuminate a subject, it tells the story. Photography is intention made visible. This course builds the technical and conceptual command necessary to produce true professional-quality editorial and commercial images, in the studio and on location. The central discipline: photographing with purpose. Every aesthetic, technical, production, and post-production decision you make will serve a deliberate creative goal. This course is also a training ground for critical thinking. As a communications professional, your choices carry ethical weight, the editorial position you adopt, the voices you include or exclude, the narratives you elevate or suppress. Every choice must be conscious, every frame must be accountable. This is what it means to operate at a professional level.

Photographic Storytelling

A single image can change what the world believes. Learn to make that image. This course is the core of what AMVJ trains photojournalists to do: make images that matter. You will master the principles and practices of photojournalistic, documentary, and editorial storytelling across print, multimedia, and video contexts, from news and features to portraits, sports, picture stories, and photo essays. The work here goes beyond technique. You will develop the theory, the ethics, and the visual language of the storyteller, building your ability to create impactful, multi-image narratives and sharpening your editorial eye through rigorous evaluation of your own work and the work of your peers. Great photojournalists are not just skilled behind the camera. They are precise thinkers with something to say.

Intro to Design

The students enrolled in the Advanced Military Visual Journalism program serve in the Navy or Marine Corps as mass communication specialists, public affairs professionals, photographers, graphic designers, and videographers. Service members come to Newhouse for 10 months, completing coursework in communications, photography, journalism, design, sound, and documentary production. Students gain strong storytelling skills, earn 30 credits toward an undergraduate degree, and can matriculate to Newhouse with successful completion.

The Alexia Fall Workshop

The students enrolled in the Advanced Military Visual Journalism program serve in the Navy or Marine Corps as mass communication specialists, public affairs professionals, photographers, graphic designers, and videographers. Service members come to Newhouse for 10 months, completing coursework in communications, photography, journalism, design, sound, and documentary production. Students gain strong storytelling skills, earn 30 credits toward an undergraduate degree, and can matriculate to Newhouse with successful completion.

Course Trip

(As of 2025-26)

DC Environmental Film Festival

The students enrolled in the Advanced Military Visual Journalism program serve in the Navy or Marine Corps as mass communication specialists, public affairs professionals, photographers, graphic designers, and videographers. Service members come to Newhouse for 10 months, completing coursework in communications, photography, journalism, design, sound, and documentary production. Students gain strong storytelling skills, earn 30 credits toward an undergraduate degree, and can matriculate to Newhouse with successful completion.

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