Elam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University.

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Kosik received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from The American University in Washington, DC.

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Journalism has always been difficult, and the arts have always been based on a patronage system.

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Lori-Lee Emshey, a journalism student at the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, was the first contestant to step up on stage Monday night.

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Chiou received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Medill School of Journalism.

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Aside from where the media went to school, we see a difference in what the media studied in school: journalism was the most-represented major at News Foo, but the liberal arts, collectively, predominated.

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