Journalism Broadcast Journalism - San Jose State University

Journalism Broadcast Journalism from San Jose State University is a Campus Bachelor Journalism degree that prepares you for a Communications career. Radio?Television Journalism students produce Update News, an award?winning weekly newscast that airs throughout the Bay Area and on the Internet. They shoot and edit news footage in digital and analog formats and work in computerized newsrooms with Internet access, and in a studio equipped with a professional teleprompter system. The newscast they produce has been honored many times as the Best College Newscast in the state. In recent years, students have won close to 300 awards in statewide, western regional and national competitions, including first place awards in the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Foundation national competition. The strong liberal arts and journalism education, combined with important hands-on experience, prepares students to work in broadcast and corporate fields. The Broadcast Journalism program offered through the San Jose State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication is nationally accredited. The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) accredits only those programs which meet high academic standards. Students seeking a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Radio and Television Journalism receive a strong liberal arts education. In addition, they get an exceptional journalism education. They take courses covering such topics as Law and Ethics of the Media, History of American Media, Mass Media and Society, Introduction to Mass Communications Research, and Lifestyles and the Media. Students also receive actual hands-on experience. Heavy emphasis is placed on writing skills and students work in computer labs and computer equipped is placed on writing skills and students are also required to serve internships in professional news operations, prior to graduation. Students work on two broadcast news staffs. Radio students produce and air stories over the university?s KSJS-FM radio. Student reporters cover news and sports issues and events of interest to the university community. The students have won several awards, including the California Intercollegiate Press Association (CIPA) Best College Radio Newscast award several times. They have also won many other awards in western regional Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and national William Randolph Hearst Foundation broadcast competitions. UPDATE NEWS is the school?s award-winning television newscast. The student staff members produce and anchor the half-hour weekly newscast which airs in nine San Francisco Bay Area counties over public television KTEH. The newscast also airs live on campus and, through the university?s Television Education Network (TEN), at various junior college campuses in Santa Clara country and the Monterey Bay Area. The newscast is closed captioned, making it available to the hearing-impaired. UPDATE has been on the air for 36 years. View more details on San Jose State University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Journalism courses.