Program Overview

Goldring Arts, Style and Culture Journalism

We train the next generation of arts journalists and communicators. Whatever your passion, we hone your cultural writing and reporting skills for an audience eager to better understand the world.

The Goldring Arts, Style and Culture Journalism program offers a uniquely flexible combination of courses designed to meet the educational objectives of each student while also providing training in multimedia communications.

As the first master’s degree program in arts journalism at an accredited communications school, the Goldring program pioneered the concept of training journalists to write about the arts for a range of outlets-from publications like The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, to organizations like the Metropolitan Opera and Sundance Film Festival.

Goldring Arts, Style and Culture Master’s Program Basics

The Goldring arts, style and culture master’s is a 12-month program that is designed to hone your reporting and writing skills across different types of media on multiple platforms. You will have the opportunity to travel to Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival, see world premieres and sharpen your reviewing skills.

You will experience an arts immersion trip in New York City that includes attending theater and music performances, film screenings, museum and gallery tours, and lectures from top-tier arts journalists. You will visit with artists and administrators at major arts institutions and top publications and take part in writing workshops.

Your year in the Goldring program concludes with a fully immersive capstone in Charleston, South Carolina, where you’ll spend three weeks with arts editors and writers covering the Spoleto Festival USA for The Charleston City Paper or interning directly for the festival in a communications or content creation role.

Who Should Apply to the Arts, Style and Culture Master’s Program?

Anyone with a passion for writing and reporting about the arts, style and culture, or an interest in communications roles at related arts organizations.

Whatever your background, this program can be tailored to your needs. You will have the opportunity to learn from your peers, as well as from professors with years of real-world experience in the field.

What Will I Learn in the Goldring Arts, Style and Culture Journalism Graduate Program?

As a student in the arts, style and culture journalism program, you will take the same introductory reporting courses as other journalism students at the Newhouse School, in addition to an arts and style reporting class. The grad program offers a flexible combination of courses designed to meet journalistic and artistic/cultural educational objectives. Two advisors will help you shape your arts, style and culture journalism graduate studies, with one specially focused on the areas of arts and culture you wish to explore.

Why Apply to the Goldring Arts, Style and Culture Journalism Master’s Program?

An arts, style or culture journalist does more than report on what is happening in the cultural moment. Your ability to report on and analyze a topic with well-researched and thoughtful opinions requires a vast knowledge of culture and the arts. This program provides you with the historical knowledge to put issues in cultural context, while understanding that art is a constantly evolving and growing field. You will learn how to write reviews, news and think pieces while making the arts accessible for diverse audiences. Throughout the year, you will also build your portfolio and get published clips in various publications both on and off campus.

Application Deadline and Financial Aid

Application materials must be submitted by January 15 for priority consideration. Applications continue to be reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the spring if space is available.

Financial aid is available through the 2025 Forever Orange Scholarship which provides half of the tuition for students who enroll full-time in a qualifying on-campus graduate degree or certificate program at Syracuse University.

Arts, Style and Culture Journalism Curriculum

Combine real-life experience covering arts festivals with a curriculum customized toward your career goals.

Arts, Style and Culture Journalism Careers

Pop Culture. Film. Music. Fashion. Art. Dance. Your Goldring degree prepares you to write and report on the arts for an audience eager to better understand their world.

Learn More About Our Master’s Students

Meet the Goldring program cohort

Goldring Advisory Board

The Goldring Advisory Board consists of friends, mentors and alumni who help guide the direction of the arts journalism and communications program.

Faculty

The Goldring program features a faculty with both the academic background and professional experience necessary to train the best in arts journalism.