The Journalism major provides comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the theory and practice of journalism.
Areas covered include reporting, editing, feature writing, advertising, mass media and more.
The skills you will learn in order to gather information, analyze it, and organize it into a news story will prepare you well for your further academic studies and for a wide variety of careers. We tend to think of Journalism in terms of newspapers, but a major in Journalism prepares students for a wide variety of careers in which gathering information and communicating it are important. Journalism majors are employed in fields such as reporting, editing, publishing, public relations, advertising, newspaper, television and radio, newsletters and corporate publications, writing training programs, screenwriting, writing books. The Journalism program at Wayne State University is widely respected as a professionally oriented program, designed to prepare students for working in the world of journalism. Our graduates are now on the staffs of the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations and on public relations staffs.