The Medill New Media Program integrates the school's traditional journalism education with new media storytelling skills and hands-on professional experience. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to add Web publishing to their print or broadcast skills. Graduate students, through the school's recently launched graduate sequence in new media, may now make online journalism their main focus. New media students demand, and receive, extensive training in the skills of this new trade. Web publishing software, digital cameras, audio, video and interactive tools are all part of the program.
Students create a Web site during the first hour of class.
They develop much more extensive Web sites throughout the quarter, ranging from deadline posting of news stories to comprehensive final projects. The Medill student who learns about new media is better equipped to enter any kind of journalism. Some pursue traditional print or broadcast reporting and editing careers, often moving up more quickly because of their Web skills. Others join new companies, producing online content. And some extend the entrepreneurial spirit of the Medill program by launching ventures of their own.