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Pulse Magazine
Pulse 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. Professors Fletcher and van Benthuysen alternate semesters, functioning as publishers for the JRNL 54 classes.
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. Professor van Benthuysen who alternates as adviser, has written for the New York Times, Newsday and the Wall Street Journal and he was Newsday's Director of Design during a 29-year career there as a graphic designer and art director.
If you love to write, enjoy photography or have an interest in graphic design or the Web, please let us know. Contact Carol Fletcher or Dan van Benthuysen.