• Multiplatform students learn to report and produce stories for print, video, mobile and digital platforms. You’ll learn the basics of reporting, as well as finding sources and working a beat. You won’t simply learn how to find public records, you’ll go out and do it. But you’ll also learn the critical skills required for success in today’s rapidly changing professional news environment. You’ll learn to build Web pages, create graphics and report and interact with audiences using social media.
  • Core classes cover a wide range of concepts and skills, including reporting, news writing, ethics and media law, journalism history and the business of news. You can layer in courses to make the program more meaningful to you: taking sports journalism with former Washington Post Sports Editor George Solomon and ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone; computer-assisted reporting with The Washington Post’s Dan Keating; data visualization courses with computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos; investigative and public affairs reporting and media research with Pulitzer Prize winners Deborah Nelson, Dana Priest and Ira Chinoy.
  • Choose capstone classes and internships that will help you land your desired job – in print and digital newsrooms, magazines, communications companies and classrooms.