The
journalism major at Murray State University prepares today’s students
for tomorrow’s media landscape. Students learn how to write and produce
news for print, broadcast, online and mobile media as well as how to
shoot, produce and edit video for broadcast and online outlets. Students
also are equipped with photography and web page design skills.
Positions
in journalism include newspaper reporter, copy editor, specialized
writers in areas such as business, entertainment, features, politics and
sports, section editors, design editors, on-air reporters, anchors,
news directors, producers, photographers, videographers, web writers,
web designers and web managers. Skills can be adapted to other
professional areas of mass communications and related fields. Students
majoring in journalism may earn a bachelor of science or a bachelor of
arts degree. Students need a minimum of 120 semester hours, another
major or minor and completion of the University studies requirement for
the appropriate degree. ACEJMC requires that students take 80 hours
outside the department, of which 65 hours must be in University studies
or liberal arts.
Students are encouraged to work at The Murray State News,
the News.org or the NPR-affiliate on campus, WKMS. The department also
strongly recommends students seek an internship between the junior and
senior year.
The
department is one of only 114 programs in the country accredited by the
Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications
and is one of three programs with the accreditation in Kentucky.