The Michigan State School of Journalism

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Journalism, the future, and you!

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Michigan State University

Journalism, the future, and you!

105 ratings

Course 4 of 5 in the Specialization Become a Journalist: Report the News!

You will learn about the career paths that are available in journalism, and what opportunities the skill sets of a journalist can offer in other fields. You will explore areas such as being an international correspondent, self-publishing in journalism, as well as how to freelance in the field. You will be empowered to develop your own path in journalism, from being an active and informed consumer, to being a journalist. The worlds of business, communications, politics, education and marketing all utilize elements of journalism. This course also examines how to keep the trust of audiences through ethical, and responsible, journalistic practices. Sometimes, journalists need to be aware of their own safety. We will intelligently discuss how journalists around the world handle pressure, threats and other dangers while doing their jobs. Journalism - and journalists - are agents of change. Are you ready to become one too?

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Welcome to the Michigan State School of Journalism

You will learn about journalism profession, the Michigan State University School of Journalism, our world-class faculty and the world-class atmosphere of Michigan State University. We are proud to have Pulitzer-prize winning journalists, distinguished authors and broadcasters, and award-winning scholarly faculty all part of our Michigan State Journalism family. We are a special place, where amazing things happen every day.

This is the world of journalism4:17

The Michigan State School of Journalism4:07

Meet your School of Journalism faculty6:26

#SpartansWill1:17

Meet the Instructors

Joanne Gerstner
Sports Journalist in Residence
Michigan State University School of Journalism
Jeremy Steele
Specialist
Michigan State University School of Journalism
David Poulson
Instructor
School of Journalism
Eric Freedman
Instructor
School of Journalism
Joe Grimm
Instructor
School of Journalism
Lucinda D. Davenport
Director & Professor
School of Journalism

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This course and the specialization is brought to you and taught to you by

the faculty and the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, so

I'd like to tell you a little bit about the School of Journalism.

Here at Michigan State University.

We are one of the oldest Journalism programs in the country.

We began about 110 years ago and we are nationally accredited.

And National Accreditation means that there is a group of professionals and

faculty from across the country that come in every six years and

they look at a variety of things to make sure that you are an expert, and

having excellence in everything that you do.

So, the last time that we had our accreditation was in

2014 and just to read you a line or two, because it's my favorite.

It's that, journalism at Michigan State University has a rich history that began

103 years ago.

The School of Journalism is clearly in the select group of premier programs today.

And the school has been continuously accredited since 1949.

Another one of my favorite passages from the National Accreditation Team is that

the School of Journalism is doing a marvelous job of preparing students

in the digital age.

Students learn news judgement, reporting and writing skills.

And visual communication in beginning courses,

then produce multimedia news websites and interactive magazine apps in the capstone.

These capstone projects have won multiple awards for content and design.

So a little bit about the faculty.

The faculty teaches undergraduate, master's and doctoral students.

And we make up one of the largest journalism programs in the country.

Diversity and

international cultures are very important to us and are important components.

So diversity makes up about a third of our faculty and

also about a third of our student body.

Our faculty is a great mix of high-profile professionals, and

also internationally known researchers.

So those researchers bring cutting edge ideas into the classroom.

And the high-profile professionals

are always there telling students the latest ways to do things.

We have faculty that have Fulbright Fellows, Pulitzer-Prize winners and

a former executive director of Information Graphics at Newsweek Magazine.

They write stories for the New York Times, the Washington Post,

they covered the Olympics, they write for National Geographics and they also author

textbooks and present documentaries that win national awards.

So, we're very diverse in the things that we do, but

it's all in the field of journalism.

A little bit about our curriculum is that we train our students to be leaders and

visionaries in this exciting, evolving industry called journalism.

Students work in traditional print and broadcast jobs.

And also for innovative digital only organizations.

Our aim is to produce students who are critical thinkers, excellent writers and

superb visual communicators.

And we provide a lot of hands on experience in creative and

multimedia skills.

So our primary goal is to train students to gather and process and disseminate

information for a society reliant upon the free flow of news and opinion.

Our students, I'll tell you about 60 of them every single year

win state Regional, national, and international awards.

And these awards are in the areas of news design, magazine apps,

online news websites, radio news broadcasts, television sports photography,

investigative reporting, news writing, environmental.

You name it, we're doing it, and winning the awards for it.

So, my whole point in some of this is to let you know that the facility that you

are listening to know what they are talking about as they try to advise and

guide you on how to do journalism.

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