Produced by the Journalism program, this five-hour long broadcast was simulcast on NewsOne, iWomanTV and on Howard University digital platforms.
Journalism | Undergraduate
The Howard University Journalism program trains students who are ethically and rigorously prepared for wide-ranging careers in digital and broadcast news.
Our students are multimedia journalists — reporters, editors, producers and content creators —who write, edit and produce thought-provoking enterprise stories of people and communities of color. The journalism program has been recognized as a top institution for journalists by USA Today, College Factual, U.S. News & World Report and National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). The student chapter of the NABJ at Howard was named Student Chapter of the Year in 2021.
Our curriculum offers tracks in Digital and Broadcast Journalism. The program won three National Academy of Arts & Sciences Student Production Awards, or Student Emmys, in 2023 for Best Newscast and Serious News Report. Our program has also received multiple awards in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Our student work is published on the Howard University News Service — a 23-year-old digital news platform owned and operated by the Journalism program — telling the story of media deserts in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and addressing a lack of diverse news coverage across D.C.'s eight wards and communities.
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Faculty
Chair: Ingrid Sturgis, M.A., associate professor
Journalism Sequence Coordinator: Stacey Patton, Ph.D., assistant professor
Yanick Rice Lamb, Ph.D., professor & editorial director, HU News Service
Nikole Hannah Jones, M.A., knight chair in race and journalism
Jennifer C. Thomas, M.A., associate professor & director, Annenberg Honors Program
Christine McWhorter, Ph.D., assistant professor
dominic k. mckenzie, M.A., ACB, assistant professor & director, HU Multicultural Media Academy
Ericka Blount, M.S., master instructor
Deron Snyder, M.S., lecturer
More than 80 journalism & film faculty and students covered the 2024 Election
The work is published on the Howard University News Service (HUNS). The website partners with more than 200 Black press outlets across the country through the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), republishing our coverage of national and local events in and around the Washington area, including Congress and the White House.
Read journal articles written by Dr. Rice Lamb, Prof. Sturgis & Prof. Thomas on HUNS's 2008 and 2014 coverage.
Visit the Howard University News ServiceElection Day 2024 Television Broadcasts
Check out the award-winning Howard University News Service
Read Digital Stories Watch Broadcast StoriesDNC Convention 2024
Journalism Professors Jennifer C Thomas and Dr. Christine McWhorter, and three student journalists – Skyler Winston, Trinity Kinslow and Trinity Webster-Bass covered the DNC Convention in Chicago over the summer. Their stories were picked up by Black newspapers around the country.
Read moreNew York City Media Tour
More than 30 journalism students and four faculty returned to the Big Apple for the annual New York City Media Tour. The group spent two days visiting media outlets including Hearst, ABC News and Complex. The group also visited the campuses of Columbia University, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and New York University.
Photo: CBS News Anchors Gayle King, Nate Burleson and Vladimir Duthiers, HU Professors Dominic McKenzie and Ericka Blount with journalism students
Multicultural Media Academy
Open to high school students and recent high school graduates, the Multicultural Media Academy at Howard University was founded in 1975. Student journalists learn how to report and write news stories about health disparities in the District of Columbia. Professor Dominic McKenzie is director of the program. Check out their stories at voicesoftomorrow.news.
Photo: High School students in the 2024 cohort celebrate their graduation in June
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Jennifer Thomas, M.A.
accepted an invitation to deliver the keynote address at the Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on New and Traditional Broadcast Media. The address was titled 'It's Now or Never: The Fundamentals of a Free Press to a Democratic Society.'
dominic k. mckenzie, M.A., ACB
was invited to return as Judge in the Press Association of Jamaica awards, the premier honor given to Jamaica's best journalists. He will judge the Young Journalist of the Year category.
Stacey Patton, Ph.D.
released a children's book 'Not My Cat', published by Simon and Schuster. The book chronicles a cat who follows a homeowner who is too busy to adopt an animal -- until the cat adopts her.
Christine McWhorter, Ph.D.
published an article in the Journal of Media Literacy Education exploring how pop culture podcasts can support Critical Race Media Literacy among HBCU students. As a Critical Race Media Literacy educator, McWhorter’s study found podcasts helped students engage with CRML and question dominant narratives in a fresh, accessible way.
Ericka Blount, M.A.
was awarded the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University to continue the production of her episodic television project “fiftyTWO” in partnership with her sister, Elissa Blount Moorhead. This project has gone through Zaentz and with Sundance Episodic labs.
Yanick Rice Lamb, Ph.D.
was featured in the latest edition of Howard Magazine, in an article titled 'Widening the Pool of Truthtellers. Read the feature here.
History of the Journalism Program at Howard University
1971
The Cathy Hughes School of Communications traces its history back to 1971 when the SOC was founded with Tony Brown as dean.
1971 - 1974
WHUR-FM debuted in 1971 and three years later, one of MJFC's predecessors, the Department of Radio, Television and Film (RTVF), established student-run radio station WHBC
1982
The Community News newspaper began publishing, and the CHSOC relocated to the renovated C.B. Powell Building.
1985-1993
Under the leadership of Dean Orlando Taylor (1985 to 1993), the Walter Annenberg Foundation donated a $2 million endowment to begin the Annenberg Honors Program. The School also established the Howard Journal of Communications; "News Vision," a television news magazine produced by journalism students; and the student-run Howard University Film Organization.
1986
The Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) accredited the then existing Departments of Journalism and RTVF – enabling those departments to join the select few communications programs in America and abroad to be endorsed by this rigorous assessment/accreditation body
Mid-1990s
Four (4) school-based media outlets began: Glasshouseradio.com, the first all-talk, online radio channel produced for and by Howard students & faculty; District Chronicles, a weekly community newspaper; BlackCollegeView.com (now HUNewsService.com); and 101 Magazine (101Magazine.net).
1993 - 2011
Dr. Jannette L. Dates became School's third dean in 1993, serving until 2011. Under her leadership, the Departments of Journalism and RTVF received ACEJMC re-accreditation in 2003 and 2009. Time Warner, Inc. invested $2 million to establish RTVF’s Time Warner Endowed Chair; media titans Bill Duke, Suzanne DePasse and Cathy Hughes served in this capacity.
2013 - 2017
Dr. Gracie Lawson-Borders became the CHSOC's fourth dean. The new Department of Media, Journalism and Film (combining parts of the former Departments of Journalism and RTVF) welcomed its first students in the class of 2017.
2019
Journalism Professor Ingrid Sturgis becomes chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film
2020
In September 2020, Howard University and Craig Newmark announced that Craig Newmark Philanthropies made a $2.5 million gift to support aspiring journalism students. The Craig Newmark Journalism Endowed Opportunity Scholarship Program ($1.5 million) supports journalism majors with demonstrated financial need (with priority given to juniors and seniors) and The Craig Newmark Journalism Endowed Student Experience Fund enables professional development opportunities that are vital to students to get jobs after college and to advance in their careers.
Journalism (Digital and Broadcast) | Undergraduate
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Program Details
- Degree Classification: Undergraduate
- Program Type: Major