College Diploma - Journalism - Broadcast (BRJ5)

Journalism – Broadcast students get hands-on experience as a storyteller and newscaster on the country’s first-ever CRTC-licenced college radio station. Students learn and develop the skills to cover and gather stories in the community, create multimedia articles on 1069TheX.com and share news on social media, including @XFMNews.

 

Curriculum includes how to pitch a story, interviewing and reporting, audio production and video skills, digital and social media, Almost 107 podcasting, research, journalism law and ethics, writing for on-air and online, newscasting and sportscasting, and voice development. The faculty have extensive journalism experience, and the broadcast industry connections to help students get started in a meaningful news career.

Students apply your skills through an internship within the final term to gain additional media experience, make professional contacts, and have the chance to get hired on full-time. Graduates of this program work across the country and around the world in radio, television and digital news. Skills gained in this program also cross over for communications work and entrepreneurial opportunities.

 

Fanshawe College is the first, and only, educational institution to receive the RTDNA Bill Hutton Award of Excellence for the betterment of broadcast journalism in Canada. Journalism students have won over 75 RTDNF scholarships and have gone on to achieve success in the industry.