Broadcast News Sequence
In the Broadcast News program, students learn how to report, write and produce news stories and programs for the electronic media using state-of-the-art digital equipment and technology.
Students learn basic news writing and editorial judgment, as well as the principles and practices of radio and television news production. Our Broadcast News students learn from experienced faculty, including an award-winning documentary producer, a former public television producer and working broadcast professionals. Students produce a bi-weekly newscast, “WVU News,” that airs statewide on West Virginia Public Television.
Journalism students learn by doing, participating in immersion projects that develop their reporting and interviewing skills. Students documented the struggles of cancer patients from diagnosis through treatment in the Emmy-winning one-hour documentary “Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss and Hope." Student reporting, photography, and multimedia stories are featured on the School’s interactive web-based project, “Starting Over: Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath.” Broadcast News students also shoot footage for KDKA-Pittsburgh, a major metropolitan market news program, and can work for U-92, the campus radio station.
Our students intern at regional broadcast stations and national television networks, and many of our Broadcast News graduates work at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News and their affiliates throughout the nation. They also work at production companies or at firms that produce their own video information pieces.
For more information, contact the broadcast news sequence head, Dean Maryanne Reed, at (304) 293-3505, ext. 5409, e-mail Maryanne.Reed@mail.wvu.edu.