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    Backpack Journalism

    Professor Bill Gentile is the director of the Backpack Journalism Project, the School of Communication's newest academic center.

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    Kappa Tau Alpha Induction

    Shamar Walters, right, is welcomed to membership in SOC's chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national honorary recognizing high academic achievement in journalism and mass communication. At left is Professor W. Joseph Campbell, SOC's chapter adviser.

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    Dean's Internships

    Dean's Intern Sylvia Carignan is working on the local
    staff at The Washington Post this semester.

Study journalism in Washington, DC, one of the centers of the media universe. Plug into the best internships, such as those at NPR, VOA, The Washington Post, USA Today and more. Connect with cutting-edge faculty teaching courses from the heady to the hands-on, in everything from basic web design to Race, Ethnic and Community reporting.

We like to say if you can be a journalist here, you can be a journalist anywhere. Learn investigative reporting from internationally acclaimed faculty. Explore the halls of Congress next to working media. Produce news for multiple platforms after you have mastered the basics of video, audio and digital skills.

As an undergraduate, you start with the basics in web, writing and reporting and work up to courses that could include ethics, law, health reporting and advanced reporting. You will specialize in broadcast or print journalism, but everyone gets the same basic skills.

Those in the graduate programs dive deeper into policy, politics, Washington or technology. Your cohort will produce an online magazine where you can showcase your newly learned skills. A host of prestigious fellowships and internships await as springboards for your career. Choose between the weekday 11-month program or the weekend Interactive Journalism program that takes 20 months of Saturdays for an MA degree.

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