Multimedia Content Development

Information technology has helped expand the way journalists are able to tell their stories. Instead of just posting an article online, you’re now able to support it with embedded video, audio, and interactive graphics that deepen the impact of your narrative.

The New Media Journalism degree offers much more than just theory in this area, as you’ll be taught how to use powerful graphics software in courses like Digital News Production and Multimedia Development and Editing. You’ll work with these applications to master professional photo editing, file management, video postproduction, and web development as they relate to different media outlets.

The last course in the program brings together all of these components for a final capstone project. Students pick a subject to feature, and use their understanding of different storytelling methods to create a complete multimedia package that combines elements of text, photography, video, and graphics. This will also include a web portion, with students keeping a blog that chronicles their work, as well as maintaining a website that supports the themes of the project.