Department of Journalism & Media Management

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The Journalism and Media Management Department at the University of Miami School of Communication includes majors in Journalism, Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, and Media Management.

Journalism and Media Management faculty teach students to gather content, analyze information, and use technology to tell meaningful stories to global audiences, as well as to understand those audiences and think critically about demographic and usage trends important to today’s media enterprises. Graduates of the department can be found working for news and information operations such as CBS, Fox News, E! Entertainment Television, ESPN, Telemundo, The Washington Post, and National Geographic.

Broadcast Journalism

Bachelor of Science

The Broadcast Journalism major prepares students for professional careers in electronic news gathering, analysis and reporting. Along with taking journalism courses, our majors receive practical experience by providing news content for the school’s weekly half-hour cable newscast NewsVision and other media outlets.

Electronic Media

Bachelor of Science

The Electronic Media major offers students the opportunity to customize their communication interests. While many students focus on media production, others complete a mix of production and industry-related course work. Typically students take elective courses from several programs offered.

Journalism

Bachelor of Science

The program in Journalism includes coursework that prepares a student to be a writer and/or designer for print media and the internet. The program enables students to gather information, learn how to assimilate that information and then communicate that information to the interested parties.

Media Management

Bachelor of Science

The Media Management program teaches students how to develop and apply analytical management skills for addressing the multi-faceted challenges of delivering and monetizing content across media platforms. Along with communication courses, students also take business courses.

Journalism

Master of Arts

The program in Journalism includes coursework that prepares a student to be a writer and/or designer for print media and the internet. The program is an intensive combination of academic study and hands-on practice designed to develop competitive, high-level, cross-platform digital storytelling skills.

Media Management

Master of Science

This unique 34-credit interdisciplinary graduate program is designed for students who seek new or advanced opportunities in the various functions of the media industry, such as distribution, sales, news and entertainment programming, research, and analytics. Classes are held on Saturdays and weekday evenings.

Featured Work

See our latest Journalism & Media Management projects, all done by our very own students and faculty.

Handbook of Media Management and Economics

Media Management
Gladesmen

Journalism, Motion Pictures
Media Management Association Awards 2017

Media Management
Relationships between Facebook Use and Sleep Patterns Among College Students

Media Management
The Digitalization of Music: To Stream, To Spend, or To Steal?

Media Management

Latest News

Apr 18 2018

Two SoC Students Receive Scholarship

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UM Family Night with the Miami Marlins featured a day at the ballpark with activities for faculty and staff, and a special pregame on-field presentation from The Miami Marlins Community Foundation Suzanne Rayson Scholarship F...

Apr 16 2018

MMA Meeting: How to Sell Noncommercial Television

On April 10, the Media Management Association hosted Heidi Lieb, senior director of business development at WPBT, to talk about the mechanism and strategies used to sell public television underwriting messages. She came to th...

Apr 13 2018

Ibis and Distraction Win at CSPA

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CSPA

The 2017 Ibis yearbook won 57 Gold Circle Awards or individual awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University. “This is an outstanding number of individual awards. I am proud of Kait...