Medill Overview The Broadcast Program of the Medill School of Journalism seeks to develop professional television journalists. Our graduates are working as writers, reporters, producers, assignment editors and news directors. Our classes emphasize hands-on experience.
Students learn on sophisticated equipment.
We have a satellite dish to receive CNN feeds and we use the professional Associated Press NewsCenter computer newsroom system. Our students learn to work under deadline on news that is breaking the day of the class. Students also work with cameras and videotape editing systems to shoot, write and edit their own stories. All Medill undergraduate students are eligible to participate in the production and reporting of the Northwestern Network News, a weekly newscast that appears on Evanston cable. Medill graduate students also produce a weekly newscast, Medill News Tonight, which appears on Chicago cable television, which has a potential audience of over a million viewers.