Broadcast journalism may be housed under any label. Writing was the winner in all age groups. Other TV skills courses came in a strong second. History, political science, sociology and other social studies were named most often. But the courses they most wished they had also taken were outside those majors.
Broadened outlooks come with age and experience.
Long-term, liberal arts and general education courses become more helpful. Across a career, broadly educated journalists tend to fare better than those who hone only the skills needed to produce or present TV news. On-Camera Staff Picks Table 3 shows that news reporters and anchors responded almost as identical twins. Writing courses had helped them most, with other TV skills a distant second. And they wished they'd had more social studies, which so much of the news is about.