Broadcast News

Long a premier institution for print, the College has recently burst onto the broadcast landscape with new prize-winning professors, a cable station reaching a half-million households and the nation’s top student newscast.

Broadcast journalism students study and learn at UMTV, the college-owned cable TV station that houses state-of-the-art equipment, including DVCPro, Avid  and ENPS systems, used in the field today. Students begin their broadcast education from their first semester at the College, volunteering as crew members for  programs produced under the guidance of renowned broadcast faculty members such as former CNN producer and CBS White House Correspondent Lee Thornton and award-winning broadcast journalist Sue Kopen-Katcef.

In addition to hands-on volunteer experience, students are given the opportunity to supplement required journalism courses with broadcast electives instructing them on producing television and radio news shows and documentary programs. Under the supervision of former NBC news correspondent Cassandra Clayton, students report and edit from the state capital for Maryland Newsline, the College’s award-winning daily news program out of the Richard Eaton Broadcast Center.

Students are not only encouraged but required to add to their classroom and newsroom education with internships in the field among the many broadcast organizations in the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas.