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Thanks again. You have been of great help. I will also do some research regarding the programs. I visited the Appalachian State Univ website. I will get in touch with them. Next thing to figure out is funding. As per my knowledge (based on online and word of mouth) few funding options are available at the Masters level.

Thank you for your response. I am interested in Industrial Psychology

Hello all, I am a former journalist and am 31 years old. I am looking at a career transition. I had Psychology in School but pursued BA in History and have a MA in Journalism. If the MA is possible any names of colleges where I could apply?

Thank you very much, imhotep, for your response. I had read about the debates regarding the utility/non-utility of the MFAs but anyway your post has helped me decide against it. Thanks. It is also partly due to the fact that I don't have the thousands of dollars required to get the MFA and I don't want to be in debt for the rest of my life after taking such a course. As for Amit Chaudhari and Rana Dasgupta I had more of day to day reporting and reporters in mind when I was talking about the existence of such writing. You go to any editor of a newspaper or even a magazine and talk about narrative journalism and they will be scratching their heads. Anyway, if you have any specific works of these authors in mind you could point them out. Thanks for your response once again.

Hello All, I am a journalist from India. Ever since I came into the field in 2007, I have been interested in Literary journalism or what they call narrative journalism. (Gay Talese is my favourite writer). Sadly, this genre of journalism , to put it bluntly, doesn't exist in India. I have seen the websites of NYU which offers MA in literary reportage and lots of other colleges which offer MFA in creative nonfiction. I wanted to know if any of guys out here have been part of these programmes and could advise me on which one to go for and how much does such a degree help in getting a job. I am really fed up with the limited opportunities that exist here to do narrative journalism as most editors haven't even heard about such a form of writing and are unwilling to devote time and space for this long from of writing. Are these degrees worth the time and money in terms of knowledge and job prospects? Also if someone could tell me about the prospects of doing long form/narrative/literary journalism in America right now? How is the market for such kind of writing? regards and thanks