Program Overview
The multiplatform journalism program prepares students to excel as multimedia journalists across various platforms. It equips them with skills in interviewing, research, reporting, and storytelling techniques applicable to print, broadcast, web, social media, and emerging platforms. The program emphasizes the ethical obligations of journalism and fosters an adaptable mindset to navigate the evolving media landscape.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Overview:
The multiplatform journalism program equips students with the skills necessary to work as multimedia journalists across diverse platforms, from online news sites to traditional print and broadcast outlets. In today's media landscape, journalists require multifaceted abilities. For instance, a reporter working for an online news outlet may shoot videos, produce audio stories, and write various iterations of a single article for websites and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Conversely, a reporter at a broadcast station or cable outlet may create visual and written versions of a story.
Objectives:
- Understand the significance of news and its role in civic and political culture.
- Develop the ability to assess the newsworthiness of events.
- Comprehend and internalize the public service functions and ethical obligations of journalism.
- Cultivate and apply diverse reporting techniques, including interviewing, database research, and public records utilization.
- Create multiplatform stories covering news, sports, entertainment, and various niche genres.
- Master narrative, video, audio, and graphical storytelling techniques applicable across platforms, including print, broadcast, web, social media, and emerging web-based and mobile platforms.
- Foster an adaptable mindset that enables students to embrace and lead the evolution of media platforms and techniques.
Outline:
Program Content:
- Interviewing
- Research
- Reporting
- Writing
- Audio and video editing
- Graphic creation
- Social media mastery
Structure:
- Core courses (12 credits):
- Media Literacy
- Media Design
- Media Ethics
- Media Law
- Multiplatform Journalism Core (24 credits):
- Language for Journalists
- Multiplatform Newsroom I
- Multiplatform Newsroom II
- Video News Gathering & Field Production
- Multiplatform Editing
- Magazine Journalism
- Investigative Reporting
- Principles of Audio & Video
