From day one, you will have hands-on opportunities to hone your skills as a storyteller. You will learn to create stories in words and images, how to use social media to report and how to produce multimedia stories.

Journalists keep the public informed by offering a window to the world through the stories they tell. As a journalism major, you will learn how to gather and organize information, produce photography and videography that can be displayed in a variety of media and the importance of free expression in a democratic society and the media's role in fostering that freedom.

You can get involved with special opportunities, such as:

Global Eyewitness, travel to photograph international and domestic places of great human need
Nebraska News Service, report on the Nebraska Capitol
Omaha World-Herald Fellowship program, work at the newspaper for a semester while taking classes
Mosaic, report on the growing refugee and immigrant community in Nebraska
Hearst Journalism Awards competition
Dow Jones News Fund editing program

A degree in journalism can take you anywhere you dream of going. The College of Journalism and Mass Communications has the highest job placement rate at UNL, and our graduates have found careers worldwide.

Our graduates are employed at major daily newspapers and top media organizations. Some of the places our graduates find employment include:

The New York Times
Chicago Tribune
Associated Press
Slate
Variety
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
BuzzFeed
Time
Fast Company
If you choose not to work for the media, you will also be well equipped for graduate and law school or the kinds of career opportunities that require excellent writing and communication skills.

According to a national accreditation report, our program prepares journalism students to "be challenged, have significant multimedia experience, and have every opportunity to be prepared for the constantly changing world of news media and communications."