Online News

Undergrads interested in careers with news Web sites or newsmagazines have the option of taking two capstone courses their junior and senior years with the online news bureau.
The courses allow undergrads to work three full days a week reporting, writing and editing in a multi-media environment. Each course is worth three credits; students typically take six to nine additional credits during the bureau semester.

While working at the news bureau, students write stories, headlines and interactive features; shoot and edit digital photos; collect audio and edit video for Maryland Newsline, an online newsmagazine operated by the College. The site, at www.newsline.umd.edu, also showcases stories produced by the Capital News Service. And it features clips from advanced CNS-TV students.

Online students work in the College’s new-media lab under the direction of faculty member Chris Harvey, a former editor at washingtonpost.com.

Students who have completed the online news bureau have gone on to jobs with BBC Science and Nature Interactive in London; usatoday.com; National Public Radio and Black Enterprise magazine, among others.

Since its launch in 2001, Maryland Newsline has won numerous national and regional awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and others.