Samantha Swindler (COM '02), distinguished alumna and publisher of the Tillamook (Ore.) Headlight-Herald, tells current Broadcast Journalism student, Michaela MacDonald (COM '12), how COM taught her the skills she needed to become an award-winning journalist. Read more.

News-Editorial Journalism

The News-Editorial sequence emphasizes rigorous education in the historical, practical and ethical aspects of news, feature, multimedia and magazine reporting and writing, online and in print form. Throughout the curriculum we emphasize ethics, integrity, accuracy and language facility. Students must master basic journalistic forms—most critically, the accurate, brief and clear news story—before moving on to the rich array of advanced courses, including foreign reporting, literary journalism, the essay and computer-assisted investigative reporting, to name just a few. Students also learn to use the latest digital technologies to deliver their reporting, whether in print or in web-based publications, that enable the uses of video and audio as well as text.