Newhouse Military

PJ has been at Newhouse since 1963, except for an absence from 1988-1997. It started as a program between the School, and the Department of the Navy. Professor Frederic Demarest proposed the program to the Navy and was the program director for 25 years. The goal of the program was to teach active-duty sailors to become better photographers and storytellers. Eventually, other services participated in the program.

In 1992, the DoD looked at the way they covered the first Gulf war, and decided they needed training in broadcast journalism much like the earlier photojournalism program. The Newhouse School bid on both the MMM program and the MPJ program; we were awarded the MMM program and the MPJ program went to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).