JOURNALISM (BROADCAST, PRINT, WEB AND INTERNATIONAL)

Broadcast, Print, Web — today’s journalists do far more than gather and report the news. The 21st century demands journalism professionals be skilled writers, photographers, videographers, sound technicians, editors and producers. Interested in taking your reporting skills around the globe? Our International Journalism major provides all the same skills as Broadcast/Print/Web with the added benefit of a semester’s study abroad.

UW-Whitewater offers a well-rounded Journalism major that will prepare you for multiple career paths, whether you want to be on the air, behind the scenes, at the keyboard or even telling stories from abroad.

• Only about one-third of schools in the UW System have an on-campus television station; UW-Whitewater is one of them!
• You’ll get hands-on experience from your first year; at UW-Whitewater, you don’t need to complete two years of gen-eds before taking on a role in our campus media outlets.
• While some media and Journalism programs focus primarily on news, at UW-Whitewater you’ll work on a variety of audio and video content, including talk shows, documentaries, music production, public service programs and commercials.
• Learn how to conduct professional interviews and create cutting edge multimedia stories for websites and social media.
• Choose a minor or second major to supplement your education and expand your Journalism career

As a Journalism major at UW-Whitewater, you can take part in many hands-on storytelling and producing experiences at campus media outlets:

• The Royal Purple ­– award-winning weekly campus print and online newspaper
• UWW-TV – campus cable television station, located in Conover Studio in Andersen Hall
• WSUW-FM: 91.7 “The Edge” – campus radio station broadcasting throughout the region from a tower atop Hyer Hall 

You can also lend your print, web and broadcast Journalism skills to client projects with the UW-Whitewater Advertising Association.

You’ll leave the UW-Whitewater Journalism program with a unique set of skills that will prepare you for positions not just in traditional and digital journalism, but in a variety of communication capacities in industries of all kinds.

Here are just a few places our recent graduates found Journalism careers and related jobs:

• 247 Sports (Madison)
• adBidtise (Milwaukee)
• Allstate Insurance Company (Pewaukee)
• Azuree Talent Agency Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
• Core Scientific (Cary, Illinois)
• iHeartMedia (Madison)
• KY-TV3 (Springfield, Missouri)
• Lakeland Public Television (Brainerd, Minnesota)
• Madison Magazine
• Midwest Family Marketing (Madison)
• Milwaukee Bucks
• MilwaukeeJobs.com (Milwaukee)
• NBC 15 (Madison)
• Sherwin Williams (West Allis)
• Sinclair Broadcast Group (Milwaukee)
• The Hershey Company (Madison)
• The Janesville Gazette (Janesville)
• Unified Newspaper Group (Stoughton)
• WIBW-TV (Topeka, Kansas)
• WSAW-TV (Wausau)
• WTOC-TV (Savannah, Georgia)
• WXOW-TV (La Crosse)

Our Journalism faculty members are award-winning journalists, former broadcasting professionals, writers, producers and others who bring a wide range of career and life experience to UW-Whitewater.