The Miami University Journalism Program is an innovative, interdisciplinary program in journalism with a strong commitment to professional training in all media within a framework of liberal education.
In concert with Miami's mission as a university, this integrated journalism program aims to enhance a liberal arts education by training students in critical thinking, writing, reporting, and editing, while preparing them for opportunities in print and broadcast journalism, new media, related professions and graduate studies.
The program seeks to educate students as ethical and productive members of the media and their communities, advancing the traditions of a free and responsible press that are critical to a democratic society.
JOURNALISM NEWSTwenty-two Miami University students were admitted to the major this fall after passing a grammar and spelling test, and meeting other criteria. Journalism students must double major, and most work for local media during their major coursework. Read the list of new majors. The Journalism Program is teaching two new specialized journalism courses for spring 2010: Entrepreneurial Journalism, a partnership with the Interactive Media Studies and Entrepreneurship faculty; and Photography in Journalism. Students do not have to be Journalism Majors to be admitted. For more information, contact Assistant Journalism Program Director Cheryl Gibbs.
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EVENTS Advanced broadcast students at Miami on Dec. 8 will screen their documentary examining the role educated young people
Environmentalist, attorney and author Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to a small group of Miami University students Sept. 21 before giving his sold-out lecture on America's green energy future at Hall Auditorium. At right are mass communication major Nick Anderson of Columbus and architecture major Jennifer Dickerson of Dayton, Ohio.
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CAMPUS SCENES
Students walk toward Patterson Place on Miami's campus in fall.
Communication major Brittany Schultz navigates Miami's high ropes course as part of a field trip with her Reporting on the Environment/Science course.
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Betsy Butler, the special collections librarian at Miami's King Library, penned an article for the Fall 2009 Journalism History magazine about literary newspapers of the mid-1800s. Her research stems from a collection of literary newspapers written, illustrated and published by Sarah and Charles Petts, two children from New York. The newspapers were donated to Miami's Edwin L. Barrett Collection. Butler says they reveal how common journalistic practices at big-city newspapers influenced people in rural areas to publish their own news. 
can play in re-shaping Ohio's future. "A State of Transition: Why Ohio and Its Grads Need Each Other" was produced by Professor Joe Sampson's JRN/COM 314 class. Screen time is 7 p.m. in the Williams Hall TV Studio, and the event is free and open to the public. 
