About Digital Journalism
This Pathway is aimed at creating a new generation of journalists and communication professionals. This pathway evolves traditional journalism skills towards the digital media landscape of big data, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social media. Students are educated on best practices for conducting, producing, and publicizing news content online.
Our coursework provides students with cutting-edge training in data-driven journalism and ethical and copyright issues related to journalism. This Pathway offers various technical training to meet job market demands, including up-to-date programming lan-guages, modern writing and editing platforms, fact-checking and interviewing techniques, and the use of artificial intelligence in knowledge production.
Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
Digital journalism offers exciting and adaptable career paths to meet the demands of an ever-evolving digital world. Some of the career paths for digital journalism include:
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- Journalism Careers, such as reporter, announcer, columnist, copywriter
- Digital Media Careers, such as digital content specialist, web editor, social media manager, digital creator, podcast hosting and producing, and digital marketing specialist
- Corporate Communication Careers, including technical writers, corporate communications officers, public relations managers, and crisis communication specialists.
Potential Courses
If you’re interested in this Pathway, you may select courses from this list to satisfy some of your major requirements, and even some electives. To explore this pathway, choose the coursees that you’re most interested in or other relevant courses. Digital journalism students are not expected to take all listed courses.
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- COMM 216. Digital Journalism
- COMM 230. Al & Journalism
- COMM 240. Data Journalism
- COMM 294. Multiplatform Journalism
- COMM 311. Interviewing and Communication
- COMM 316. Writing for the Electronic Media
- COMM 323. Argument and Persuasion
- COMM 335. Digital Storytelling
Student Experiences in this Pathway
Meet Communication Alumni
“Being a Communication major at UIC has helped me find my voice and learn how to use it effectively —whether I’m pre-senting, writing, or collaborating across cultures and plat-forms.”