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S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Curriculum
In addition to developing your writing, our curriculum teaches multimedia, video and design skills that will make you exactly the kind of well-rounded and fully equipped journalist sought by newsrooms around the country. Between hands-on classes and internships with local and network news outlets, you will get extensive experience working as a journalist.
The new journalism major has two main tracks—broadcast and digital journalism, and magazine, news and digital journalism. This enables you to specialize while receiving a well-rounded education in reporting across multiple platforms. Students enter their tracks of choice after completing courses in core journalism competencies.
After choosing a main track of study, you’ll have the option of adding a secondary sports journalism track.
Newsrooms across the country employ graduates from the Newhouse School’s broadcast and digital journalism program. You will learn the skills to deliver the news with accuracy, objectivity and integrity.
Newsrooms across the country employ graduates from the Newhouse School’s magazine, news and digital journalism program. You will learn the skills to deliver the news with accuracy, objectivity and integrity.
The sports media and communications program run by the Newhouse Sports Media Center, includes sports production, play-by-play (radio and TV), television sports anchoring and reporting, sports writing, sports documentary production and more.
Extracurricular Opportunities
Journalism Experiences
There are many options available to practice journalism skills. NCC News and TheNewsHouse.com are broadcast and digital outlets for student work. The Daily Orange is the campus newspaper and there are multiple student-run magazines. Syracuse University is the home to three campus radio stations: WAER 88.3 FM, WJPZ 89.1 FM and the internet station WERW. There are also broadcast options with the ACC Network and Citrus TV.
NCC News
Polish your skills and gain resume-building experience at NCC News, a full-service, student-run news source covering breaking news, politics, sports, weather, health and consumer news in Central New York.
NCC News features video, audio and text stories produced from a series of broadcast and digital journalism classes. Work is featured on NCC News’ award-winning website.
TheNewsHouse.com
Gain storytelling experience at a multimedia news site for Syracuse University that teaches practical and digital skills needed for the media industry.
WAER 88.3 FM
WAER is an NPR member station and part of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As many as 50 students can be found in the WAER newsroom each semester, covering stories and issues important to Central New York. The sports staff is entirely made up of students, who fill prominent play-by-play positions and also learn studio hosting, engineering and audio production.
Learn more about this program