Full Sail University

New Media Journalism

Master's Degree – Online

Build your audience. Boost your online presence.

If you have a passion for creating strong content, Full Sail University's online New Media Journalism master's degree program can teach you the skills to become a digitally savvy writer and content producer.

You'll explore multimedia tools such as streaming video and podcasts and learn how to build and promote your online presence. You'll also become familiar with social media strategies to help you engage and grow your audience.

Interactive Media Distribution

  • Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership - Map your own path toward achievement by understanding success, personal motivation, resiliency, and intellectual commitment.
  • New Media and Communications - Students gain an understanding of the unique possibilities and limitations of new media by learning the technology, techniques, and methods of storytelling on multimedia platforms.
  • Social Media and Online Community Engagement - Learn theoretical and practical approaches to understanding virtual communities, and how user-generated content within those communities expands the definition of news.
  • New Media Publishing and Distribution - Examine the broad economic issues facing the field of journalism from global competition to evolving consumer behaviors and fractionalized revenue streams.
  • Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership
  • New Media and Communications
  • Social Media and Online Community Engagement
  • New Media Publishing and Distribution

Multimedia Content Development

  • Research and Investigation Skills Development - Study the fundamentals of research, examine the relationship between research and theory, and explore research ethics.
  • Multimedia Development and Editing - Learn best practices of photography, photo management, video production, audio production, web skills, and advanced postproduction techniques
  • Multimedia Reporting - Learn how to access, transfer, and process electronic information, and how to gain ownership of a story by presenting that information in a visual, useful, and factual way.
  • Digital News Production - Study the theories, techniques, and skills used in online newsrooms and for news-related websites.
  • Research and Investigation Skills Development
  • Multimedia Development and Editing
  • Multimedia Reporting
  • Digital News Production

Journalism Fundamentals & Reporting Skills

  • Writing for Interactive Media - Master narrative principles by examining new ways of telling interactive stories for visual and digital media.
  • Public Relations and Reputation Management - Learn how to monitor and respond to changes in sentiment and conditions that impact organizational initiatives and long-term strategic communication objectives.
  • Legal Aspects of Media - Learn to identify complex media legal issues presented by digital and mobile technologies and to think critically about resolving these issues.
  • New Media Journalism Final Project - Create a journalistic package that combines the elements of text, photos, video, graphics, and other elements to tell the story of your sustained study of a single subject.
  • Writing for Interactive Media
  • Public Relations and Reputation Management
  • Legal Aspects of Media
  • New Media Journalism Final Project

Our Florida Campus

- Winter Park, Florida -

Expansive 210+ acre campus · 110+ studios and collaborative production environments · Professional-level recording and game studios · Spacious Hollywood-style back lot · Multiple live venues which host events, concerts, and more.

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