Broadcast & Digital Journalism

Catalog description

Students will use mobile communication devices such as cell phones and tablets to create quality print, broadcast, and online journalism. Students will cover news stories in the Hunt County, Texas area, doing out-of-class writing and reporting assignments designed as practical preparation for real-world media work. Along with traditional newsgathering techniques, students will study how the journalism and citizen media fields are evolving with new technology, using social media to build a readership for the course’s journalism projects and to engage with the audience. Prerequisites: MMJ 151 or MMJ 322 and Junior Standing.