Welcome to Mr. Gallatin's dream

So you want to win a Pulitzer Prize. You want to be a writer, photographer, designer, editor, publisher — hell even a mailroom clerk, as long as it gets you into journalism. We admire your moxie. And we say, bring it here.

The Washington Square News' mission is simple: do great journalism and make great journalists. Our training ground is New York City, not some traditional college campus where you'll be covering the lunch schedule. Our arts staff screens movies before they're released. Our news staff rubs elbows with the Bloombergs of the world. And our fashion staff will be at the Marc Jacobs tent this fall.

Our reporters and editors go on to do amazing things. Students and alumni have gone on to intern or work at ABC, The Associated Press, Bloomberg, CBS, CNBC, CNN, The Colbert Report, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, ESPN, Forbes, Fortune, Gawker, Goldman Sachs, GQ, HBO, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Morgan Stanley, MSNBC, NBC, The New York Daily News, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, NPR, The Peace Corps, Reuters, The St. Petersburg Times, Time, Town and Country, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, Vogue and The Washington Post, just to name a few.

The popular misconception is that if you work for a newspaper you'll pigeonhole yourself. But the tools you gain here are not exclusive to the newsroom. They are life skills that apply to every industry, career and job, whether you want to go into finance, law, entertainment, government, health care or anything else.

You'll learn how to write. You'll learn how to ask hard questions. You'll learn how to make deadlines.

Even more than that, you'll make long-lasting friendships and join a community that is 38 years strong. You'll be part of something — the paper of record — that students and faculty rely upon every day.

And as for the Pulitzer: Who Knows? Just last year, a WSN alumnus took one home.