Program Overview
For decades, Asbury University has prepared Christian journalists who negotiate a challenging and important profession with insight, courage and guided by meaningful experiences. As a Journalism major at Asbury, you’ll be met with opportunities to tell important stories through print, broadcast and digital media.
Our award-winning program combines cutting-edge technology, high-profile opportunities, and top-notch instruction from dedicated, caring faculty members while staying rooted in virtue and truth-telling. The result: A chance to tell important stories, tackle the new media landscape, and live out a faith-filled calling in a broken world.
Asbury’s Undergraduate +GRAD program allows you to finish an undergraduate degree, then earn a master’s degree with significant time and cost savings.
Asbury offers four online master’s degree programs in media communications:
Asbury journalism alumni complete internships, attend prestigious journalism graduate schools, and work in media communication jobs at companies including:
The Journalism major at Asbury University grounds students in an understanding of the power of writing, photo imaging, video and graphics to accurately share stories and bring meaning in an ever-changing marketplace of ideas. The program prepares students to write and create for any media: print, online, or broadcast. Courses include writing, editing, photojournalism, television production, shooting documentaries and more.
Students with a Journalism major gain not only professional journalistic skills but an understanding of how Christian values can be applied to competent leadership over print and online media ranging from newspapers and magazines to public relations and advertising materials. Alumni work in journalism throughout the world, and students have won multiple awards including Kentucky Broadcasters’ Association and Emmy Awards.
The Asbury University student newspaper, The Collegian, is an independent student publication produced through the Student Life Office. Students serve in positions from contributing writers to executive and managing editors, seeking stories to faithfully report from across campus and across the world.
The Collegian is also online. Students write, layout, and shoot video stories about news, sports and other events and people on campus. Students also produce videos for the website.
Journalism majors who are interested in pursuing a career in writing, reporting or producing broadcast news have that opportunity in the Communication Arts Center news bureau. Students can report news for online live television coverage. There are also a number of shows created by students interested in broadcast journalism including a local news show.
Students utilize custom designed sets as well as a new virtual production 16’x 9’ video wall for their news, morning and sports television productions.
Along with our nationally acclaimed student newspaper, our journalism curriculum has become one of the most cutting-edge programs in the country, with classes ranging from convergent news to documentary filmmaking and includes the chance to produce news packages at the Summer and Winter Olympics.
The “home base” of our convergent journalism program is a CNN-style news bureau where students from all areas of media collaborate to produce the print and online editions of our newspaper.
Industry-leading faculty in the Media Communication program are committed to instructing students in the latest practices using the equipment they’ll really use. Their skills and experience range from decades in radio and sports broadcasting to Grammy-nominated recording and writing and producing for top TV networks
Asbury journalism alumni go on to top media outlets and prestigious journalism graduate schools such as Northwestern and Missouri-Columbia.
Also, our alumni complete internships and work in media communication jobs at companies including:
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