<p>To follow-up Sam Lee’s points: </p>
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<li><p>Medill has always required that about 70% of course work takes place outside of journalism. 3 required credits are in a one trimester media internship in either print, broadcast, or web based journalism. These are usually held onsite outside of Chicago and are at venues as diverse as Business Week, Time.com, ETV-Johannesburg, WGN-Chicago, Newsday, ESPN, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. With course requirements within journalism limited, second majors, co-majors, minors, independent certificate programs are very common and easily achieved.</p></li>
<li><p>As far as “ideas” and “thinkers” are concerned, I’d suggest you look as what students at Medill have accomplished just on the investigative front in their involvement with the Innocence Project:
[Medill</a> - Medill Innocence Project](<a href=“http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/journalism/undergrad/page.aspx?id=59507]Medill”>http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/journalism/undergrad/page.aspx?id=59507)
and the recent national controversy surrounding their work:
[Prosecutor</a> pushes smear campaign against students - Crime - Salon.com](<a href=“http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/11/exoneration/index.html]Prosecutor”>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/11/exoneration/index.html)</p></li>
<li><p>Medill, as I said before, is anything but a “trade” program. It has long refused to emphasize mechanical aspects of journalism. But it also does not hide its head in the sand. What is taught at Medill is a process - how to take a story, investigate it fully, be true to the facts, balanced in analysis, and then in exposition, via the written word - first and foremost - present that story to an audience. But as sainclaire appropriately argues, today’s audience demands that that story present itself across multiple platforms and in a multimedia way. Not only is it wrong to ignore this demand, it is suicide. While there is much fear of change out there, the leaders in media who embrace and tame new technology see great opportunity. Medill’s job is to make sure its graduates are prepared to seize the opportunities that will be presented by these media leaders, to remain the highly in-demand graduates they have always been.</p></li>
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<p>From the Medill site:</p>
<p>"The Associated Press, NBC News, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN Productions, The Miami Herald, Self, Boston Globe, Google, Mens Health, Public Broadcasting Service, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg News, People, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Hearst Argyle Television, The Indianapolis Star. </p>
<p>These are just some of the professional destinations for recent Medill graduates. Graduates of the bachelor of science in journalism degree (BSJ) are exceptionally prepared for careers in newspaper, magazine, broadcast and online journalism and other fields requiring strong writing and communication skills and technological know-how. They join a distinguished cadre of Medill alumni, many of whom are leaders in the profession, including dozens who have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards, Peabody and Emmy awards and other prestigious media honors."</p>