Broadcast Journalism

Broadcast Journalism students study and learn at UMTV, the college-owned cable TV station that reaches more than 500,000 households in suburban Washington and Baltimore City. Graduate students in their last semester enroll in Capital News Service and serve as field reporters, producers, writers and anchors for Maryland Newsline, a nightly news show that airs on UMTV.

The broadcast journalism program is led by Professor Mark Feldstein, a former on-air investigative correspondent at CNN and ABC News who is the college's Richard Eaton Chair in Broadcast Journalism. Other broadcast faculty members bring rich professional backgrounds to the College: Cassandra Clayton, a former NBC correspondent, teaches intensive courses in broadcast news writing, and Sue Kopen Katcef, former State House correspondent for Maryland Public Television, serves as director of the Capital News Service Television Bureau.

Required courses for the broadcast news specialization:

• JOUR 772 Methods in Computer Assisted Reporting (3 credits)
• JOUR 601 Theories of Mass Communication (3 credits)
• JOUR 660 Seminar in Broadcast Journalism (3 credits)
• JOUR 661 Television Reporting and Production (3 credits)
• JOUR 668B Broadcast News Producing (3 credits)
• JOUR 667 Broadcast News Bureau (6 credits)
• JOUR 700 Law of Public Communication (3 credits)

Prerequisite courses that may be waived for students with extensive professional experience that meets course requirements:

• JOUR 501 Fundamentals of Writing and Editing (3 credits) (does not count toward 30-credit total)
• JOUR 503 Fundamentals of Broadcast Journalism (3 credits) (does not count toward 30-credit total)

See the Broadcast Program Curriculum