The Journalism major prepares students for leadership roles in rapidly changing media by requiring a strong core of journalism courses within the rich context of a liberal arts education. Journalism students learn about industry structures, ethics, regulation, media law, history, and about the media鈥檚 role in an increasingly diverse society.
Careers
Career opportunities in Journalism include:
Sports Information Director
Social Media Reporter
E-Book Creator
New Service Writer
Technical Writer
Policy Analyst
Investigative Reporter
Copywriter
Journalism Major
Students develop analytical and critical thinking skills to communicate with audiences across all media platforms. Two areas of interest prepare students for long-term careers as reporters, photographers, videographers, editors, publishers, producers, anchors, social media content managers, or other professions that require experience in writing, reporting, editing, curating, printing, broadcasting, web or social media. All students learn about traditional as well as new media. Capstone experience includes maintaining a daily multimedia blog.
Broadcast/Multimedia
Students gain on-air experience at the student-run radio station through producing, writing and airing daily newscasts and producing a weekly half-hour community affairs broadcast. They produce report and anchor a daily, live newscast for a local cable channel.
Print/Multimedia
Students may write, edit, design and report for the independent, student-run, daily newspaper as well as other campus publications.
Expected May, October 2025
Start date
January 2025
College of Communication and Information
308 Lucille Little Library,
LEXINGTON,
Kentucky,
40506, United States
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