Studying Journalism at Miami University

Miami University’s Journalism Program has a strong commitment to professional training across all media and to liberal arts education. Our emphasis is on educating students broadly as capable writers and critical thinkers. Our faculty grounds students in basic reporting, interviewing, storytelling and editing skills for print, electronic and digital media. Many classes produce stories for regional media to give students professional experience, along with internships and study-abroad experiences.Learn more about the Journalism Program.

CNN's Gupta Discusses Doctoring Through Tragedy, War

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon who reports on health and

MUTV's Jenni Wiener interviews Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Photos by Patricia Newberry
CNN Sanjay Gupta interviewed by Jenni Wiener
medical news for CNN, told a sold-out crowd at Hall Auditorium Jan. 30 that his dual career suits him, but some of the scenes he's witnessed at disasters and in war still haunt him.

The rapt audience of students, faculty and community members heard tales from Gupta about performing neurosurgery during a sand storm in the Iraq desert - while embedded as a journalist with a Marine unit.

He described reporting on starving children in Somalia, and he read poignant passages

Senior journalism major Jenni Wiener nails a dream interview for MUTV.
MUTV's Jenni Wiener interviews Sanjay Gupta
from a personal diary while working there.

Gupta also talked about how health stories transcend world culture to spread compassion.

What he didn't discuss: His evening speech capped a day that began with Gupta performing a 5-hour surgery in Atlanta. Don't miss Jenni Wiener's interview with Gupta on MUTV's Oxford Week in Review.

Summer in Kosovo, Spring in Washington, D.C.

The Journalism Program offers two unique opportunities for students to study and gain journalistic experience away from the main campus: the summer Kosovo Program and the spring or summer Inside Washington Program.

In the newly democratic Balkan country of Kosovo, Miami students take 8 credit hours over six weeks in journalism and geography courses - including an internship at KosovoLive media, or at a non-profit agency. They live in dorms at American University there, and have three-day weekends to travel. Download the flier for more information.

Meanwhile, students can learn more about Miami's Inside Washington program for spring 2013 during a Wednesday, Feb. 15, information session. The program submerses students in Washington, D.C., action through tours, meetings with movers and shakers, research and - ultimately - internships in newsrooms, government or advocacy agencies.

The Feb. 15 meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Williams Hall 160. More information.

McChesney, CNN's Wedeman to Visit Campus

Several internationally known journalists will speak at Miami during spring term, including the imminent scholar Robert W. McChesney and CNN's Middle East specialist Ben Wedeman.

McChesney, the Journalism scholar and University of Illinois professor, will be on campus Feb. 16-17 as part of the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Continuing Dialogue on Social Justice and Human Rights program, hosted by the Center for American and World Cultures. Two public appearances are planned:

McChesney
Robert McChesney
  • A keynote speech titled “Media and Democracy and the Coming Upheaval” will be given Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Shriver Center Heritage Room. Free.
  • A symposium titled “Media and the (Im) Possibility of Democracy: A Call to Action" will be held Feb. 17 from 9-11:15 a.m. in McGuffey Hall 322. Free.

Click here for more information on McChesney's visit.

Wedeman
Ben Wedeman

CNN's senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, will discuss his coverage of the Arab Spring with students when he visits in March. Wedeman has covered the Middle East since 1995 and is based in Cairo. His free talk March 14 begins at 7 p.m. in Benton Hall 102. More information.

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