In their final year, all graduate and undergraduate students work for six weeks as interns on television or radio shows. They also spend six weeks producing a daily television news program. In their final term, they are required to study the history of the documentary. They must also take a highly intensive course in either television or radio documentary. The TV group regularly places first in TVOntario's annual Telefest awards.
Students write a number of articles, including a feature and an article for the Web.
The major assignment in the writing course is developing a feature article for publication in the Ryerson Review of Journalism . The editing course introduces students to the full set of skills that senior editors require. Instead of an internship component, the magazine stream includes the full-year masthead course, which involves serving as a staff member for one of two annual issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism .