Pulse, formerly
The Communicator, is a student-run magazine at Hofstra University. All reporting, writing, editing, photography, lay out, web development and promotion for the magazine is done by the students in the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations.
The core editorial staff is drawn from JRNL 54: Magazine Production. Classes meet in the Dempster Hall computer labs and are structured as editorial meetings, where students discuss story ideas, photographs, and all other aspects of the magazine they will produce at the end of each semester.
Pulse has won dozens of awards from
Newsday, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Long Island Press Club, and other organizations that recognize outstanding student reporting. Professor Carol Fletcher, who acts as adviser, has more than twenty years experience in the magazine business, working for such publications as
Time and
Discover.
If you love to write, enjoy photography or have an interest in graphic design or the Web, please let us know. Contact Carol Fletcher at (516) 463-6464 or e-mail her at
advisor @ pulsemagazineonline.com.