In October 2003, the prestigious French semi-public[3] university Sciences Po announced its intention to create a school of journalism the following year, with the aim of offering a "renewed and innovative vision of the requirements of the journalism profession, from a resolutely international perspective".[4]
In September 2004, Sciences Po created the "École de journalisme de Sciences Po", delivering graduate degrees only. According to Ivan Chupin, the creation of a journalism school by a leading semi-public university could be seen at the time as an attempt to subvert the model of professional excellence previously developed by private journalism schools such as the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (ESJ) and the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ). Ironically, these two private J-Schools have since integrated public universities as part of public-private partnerships: the University of Lille for the ESJ and Assas University in Paris for the CFJ.[4]
Academics
Teaching
Sciences Po Journalism School is an exclusively graduate program.[5]
It contains two master programs in Journalism:
a two-year Master in Journalism, which can be followed in French only,