Contact:

Anthony Adornato, Chair
Broadcast and Digital Journalism Department
318 Newhouse 3, 315-443-7398

Aileen Gallagher, Chair
Magazine, News and Digital Journalism Department
318 Newhouse 3, 315-443-2153

Faculty

Students in the journalism program learn to meet the challenges of a complex and evolving industry and study critical issues faced in today’s complex communications environment. In small classes taught by industry professionals, students develop their ability to create content for a variety of audiences and platforms. The program’s emphasis remains core skills such as editing, interviewing, information gathering and reporting, achoring, producing and writing. Students also gain experience with design, data, multimedia and social media. Curriculum includes diversity issues, law and ethics.

Students produce content for The NewsHouse (the Newhouse School’s multimedia news magazine), campus publications and local media outlets. Majors are encouraged to take advantage of University-sponsored interships and extracurricular opportunities at campus radio and television stations, newspapers and magazines, and other media outlets.

Students also have access to the state-of-the-art combined newsroom and HD studio that has 27 workstations equipped with ENPS©, Adobe Premiere Pro© for video editing, and Ross XPression© for graphic creation. The studio portion features fully robotic cameras, a video wall, a touchscreen powered by StoryTeller® software, an achor desk, and an interview area. The control room is fully automated with Ross Overdrive© technology. Student journalists are also able to report live from the scene of news stories using Dejero© portable equipment.