News-Editorial Sequence
News-Editorial program emphasizes hands-on learning and one-on-one instruction, and students learn from experienced professionals. The capstone course requires students to write for state and regional newspapers as part of a special WVU student bureau, giving students professional clips for their portfolios.
News-Editorial students also participate in immersion projects that develop their writing 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 and multimedia pieces are also featured on the School’s interactive web-based project, “Starting Over: Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath.”
Students learn from faculty that include a George Polk Award-winning investigative journalist, a former Associated Press war correspondent, published nonfiction authors and photographers, designers and former and current reporters and editors.
The School of Journalism also helps students gain rewarding internships at the nation’s top newspapers and wire services. Students also work for The Daily Athenaeum, the independent campus newspaper. Because of the School’s hands-on curriculum and strong ties with alumni, newsroom managers and publishers, students land jobs in newsrooms throughout the state and nation.
For more information, contact the news-editorial sequence head, John Temple, at (304) 293-3505, ext. 5418, e-mail John.Temple@mail.wvu.edu.