Facilities
The facilities at the Graduate School of Journalism include state-of-the-art Macintosh computer workstations and other digital equipment as varied as our students' interests.
Television students use professional digital camcorders and work in a recently built broadcast studio that includes Final Cut Pro editing workstations.
Radio students learn their craft on digital audio recorders and advanced editing software in a new radio studio, allowing them to enter the market with the technical skills they need to produce top quality radio news shows.
For print students, our three computer labs are equipped with more than 50 new Macintosh computers, each loaded with a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other applications. Each station has a high-speed Internet connection, allowing students to conduct research and communicate with people all over the world. In addition, students have access on the school computers and at home to the Lexis-Nexis news archive service and other online news databases.
Students in the magazine program also work in the computer labs and publish their own magazines using desktop publishing software.
For photography students, there are digital cameras as well as two darkrooms featuring Besler enlargers and a dry mount press. Slide, negative and print scanners allow photographers to prepare their work for pre-press, digital and online publications.
Multimedia students work in one of the large computer labs at workstations equipped with a suite of multimedia applications for Web page creation and video, audio and photo editing. Programs include Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Audacity and Photoshop. Digital video cameras, digital audio recorders and digital photo cameras also are provided for reporting on multimedia projects.
The J-School hosts live television broadcasts from a studio at North Gate Hall, and live radio shows from the radio lab.