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Broadcast Journalism
As a broadcast journalism student, you’ll study the media, writing, reporting and editing as you “cross-train” to become an effective broadcast, print or online communicator.
  • In the Schieffer School, you can work for student media outlets that have been named among the best nationally and regionally.
  • TCU News Now was recently named the best college news show in the country; the TCU Daily Skiff is an all-American newspaper; Image magazine was named the best student magazine in the region and was a finalist for the best in the nation.
  • Our students have won individual honors in the Hearst competition and from the Society of Professional Journalists.
  • And that's only the beginning- while you're at the Schieffer School you can intern in the nation's seventh largest media market.
 
The Broadcast Journalism program includes courses like:
FrCommunication in Society
Media Writing & Editing I
Race, Gender & Mass Media
SoMedia Writing & Editing II
Radio TV Newswriting
JrReporting
Broadcast Reporting
SrComputer Assisted Reporting
Internship
Law & Ethics of Mass Communication
Issues In Broadcast News
3 Journalism Electives
Senior Seminar in Journalism

 
Our graduates include Bob Schieffer of CBS News and journalists working at stations in places like:
Washington, D.C.
Atlanta, Georgia
San Antonio, Texas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Houston, Texas
Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 

Broadcast Journalism program website
Broadcast Journalism in the Undergraduate Studies Bulletin

 

 

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