Many communications graduates go on to law school. They find their broad liberal arts background and skills in information-gathering, analysis and writing have prepared them well for legal studies. The variety of jobs in the nation's communications industries is great, and with the proliferation of new media forms, the field is growing. Newspapers, magazines, the wire services, and radio and television stations and cable news productions organizations all need reporters and editors. They also need sales and management personnel, announcers, producers and directors, promotion specialists, photographers, artist and scriptwriters.
Advertising agencies seek copywriters, graphic artists, media buyers, and account executives.
Public relations firms and public relations departments of companies, schools, non-profit agencies and similar organizations hire graduates of communications programs to write and edit internal and external publications and to perform a great number of other functions necessary to winning friends and influencing people on a large scale. In fact, executives in a range of businesses not long ago pointed to a lack of writing skill as the greatest deficiency they see in college graduates. They also say graduates lack oral communication skills and the ability to identify and formulate problems. In going into the job market with those skills, communications graduates have a big advantage over their competition. Minors in communications also learn how to formulate questions, to gather information, to analyze information and to communicate information.