You get real newsroom experience on day one. Produce live TV for HU16, publish with The Bison, broadcast on KVHU and capture campus life for the Petit Jean yearbook. Every assignment builds your portfolio. Each outlet operates under professional deadlines and editorial standards, giving you clips, reels and bylines long before internship season arrives.
You will learn from reporters, editors and producers who have won major broadcast awards, Society of Professional Journalists honors and Emmy recognition. Their résumés include network bureaus, metro newspapers and agency newsrooms. Because classes average fewer than 15 students, professors know you by name, review your clips one‑on‑one and invite you to shadow their freelance shoots or reporting projects. They stay current, teaching with all the latest hardware and software suites so you graduate with skills the industry is hiring for now, not five years ago.
Tap into an active community of alumni working at everything from local news to international agencies and regional papers. The department pairs juniors and seniors with alumni mentors for résumé feedback and mock interviews, hosts on‑campus guests each semester and runs annual media trips all over the world. Internship pipelines place students at local TV stations, national news sites and non‑profit communications offices, contributing to a consistent 90% job or graduate school placement rate within six months of graduation.
Turn ideas into stories audiences trust. Multimedia reporters pitch angles, verify facts, shoot video, record audio and file copy on deadline for web, broadcast, podcasts and social platforms. Many of our graduates start as MMJs at regional stations, beat reporters at metro papers or digital producers for national outlets and then move quickly into specialty beats such as politics, sports or health.
Shape raw content into clear, accurate and compelling packages. As an assignment editor, copy chief or line producer, you’ll coach reporters, write headlines and push alerts, manage rundowns, and enforce legal and ethical standards. Alumni serve as section editors at USA Today Network papers, digital producers for Tegna stations and content managers for non‑profit newsrooms.
Translate complex information into visuals that grab attention and explain context. Roles include data journalist, graphics editor, motion designer and social media video producer. You might build interactive maps for a news site, design infographics for an investigative series or cut vertical videos for TikTok and Instagram. The skill set also fits agency and corporate communication teams looking for multimedia content creators.
Professor of Communication
Dean of the Honors College
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