Journalism Department of Ming Chuan University (MCU) was established in 1999 to cultivate talented journalists. Our department combines theoretical and practical courses to cultivate professional news media personnel with responsibility, news writing & editing skill and international field of vision. In response to the development and change of the media industry, the convergent and innovative models are adopted. Our department combines the timely theory and practice to fully connect with industry for journalism professional education and empirical training, as well as to integrate traditional and new media for digital integrated lean education and practical training. The most distinctive courses of Journalism Department are "News Principles and Editing" and "News Reporting and Writing". These two courses are co-taught in small classes by professors well versed in journalism theory and senior journalists with practical expertise in the news media industry. Basically, for these two courses, there are practical assignments every two week. To resolve students' learning difficulties in real time, participation and discussion in the class are also required. The course "Media Practices" in the third year of Journalism Department is another distinction. Students choose internships in different media according to their interests. They personally participate in news interviewing, news editing and reporting. Through multiple courses and various training activities training, the students' practice publication "Media News", which reports events about news media in Taiwan, has become an outstanding feature of our department. Currently, our department has 7 full-time faculty members, all of whom hold a PhD degree in communication or communication-related fields with empirical experience in the media industry. In addition, there are 18 part-time faculty members, all of whom have abundant media-industry work experiences. To pursue the highest journalism standards, our department offers an integrated communication program that emphasizes journalism ethics, theories and practices. These allow the students to become well-rounded, collaborative, and ethical professionals with international field of vision.
DEGREE GRANTED TO JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT GRADUATES
WRITING REPORTER
Writing reporters must possess excellent writing skills. The main work includes news interviews, special subject reports, information collection, recording for print, broadcast and online journalism.
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER
Press Photographers must have professional photographic concepts and skills. Their aim is to capture the images to illustrate news stories. Press Photographers need to maintain up-to-date knowledge about current news stories and any specialist areas, and take the best possible photographs to record news, current events and lifestyle stories.
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
Public relations is about managing reputation. Public relations officers utilize all forms of media and communication to build, maintain and manage goodwill and understanding between the organization and its public. The tasks typically involve writing news, holding news conferences, planning benevolent activities, and producing advertisements, etc.
ADVERTISING COPYWRITER
Advertising copywriters generally work with clients to conceive, develop and produce effective advertising campaigns. Typical work activities may include liaising with clients and interpreting their briefs, advertisement copywriting, production of advertisement and corporation identity packages in the advertising industry or marketing department of a business enterprise. Professional abilities such as clear expression and accurate writing are needed.
TV NEWS ANCHOR
TV news anchors must have fluent speaking skill, be good looking, and possess professional experience in news interviews and editing. The major task is reporting on news and current affairs. In addition, TV news anchors are responsible for assuming a public relations role, developing thorough special reports or producing news-related programs.
NEWSCASTER
Newscasters examine, interpret, and broadcast news received from various sources. This requires distinct articulation, capability for interpretation of good manuscripts, and good sense of time management. Typical work activities include broadcasting news every hour or every half hour and selecting the important news from the flow of daily news within a limited time.
TV PHOTOJOURNALIST
TV photojournalists' work is similar to that of writing reporters, with the difference that TV photojournalists capture images to illustrate news stories instead of using text. They must develop a sense of capturing the best images to record news events. Furthermore, the task requires excellent techniques in video shooting, editing, and satellite news gathering (SNG) operations.
DUBBING SPECIALIST
Dubbing specialists must be highly trained in oral expression through pronunciation courses, etc. Career developments include dubbing for cartoons, video games, foreign movies and TV serial programs.
NEWS EDITOR
News editors in the journalism industry may be employed by newspapers, magazine publishers, on-line news media, TV stations and other news media industries. Tasks for news editors include completing the news production process that involves news writing, modification, news rewriting, topic production and layout.
EDITORS OF BUSINESS PUBLICATION
Editors of business publications may work for companies that publish monthly or quarterly publications for marketing or maintaining customer relationships. For example, "HAVO Health magazine" is published by HAVO Preventive Medicine Institute.
Media News was founded on November 1, 1982 and the electronic press was set up in September 1995, with MOL (Medianews On Line). Media News(link is external) was the first professional website and professional newspaper in Taiwan to report the news of mass communication in real time. MOL editing room provides equipment, workspace and digital video and audio editing area for news websites. MOL actively combines media and technology, integrates newspapers, radio, television and Internet, establishing a cross-media network news platform, and providing real-time network news service. Playing the role of "media observer", students can interview and write their own reports. In addition to editing daily news, they can also produce multimedia audio-visual news and accumulate students' related works. Through in-depth investigation, comparison, interviews and analysis of relevant media events, the development and trends in media are completely recorded, which has been well received by media organizations, industry, officials and academia.
There are three sections in the digital multimedia experimental platform including News and information center, Editing center (MOL digital editing platform), and Electronic and print work center:
1. News & information center: with 8 news centers, in charge of updating news contents from digital multimedia experimental platform.
2. Editing center (MOL digital editing platform): in charge of news post and layout update of digital multimedia experimental platform website.
3. Electronic and print work center: integrating the production works of digital multimedia experimental platform to become digitalized value-added electronic and print works, including Medianews (every third day newspaper), Ming Chuan Internet TV, Ming Chuan Radio, Integrated Marketing Communication Center (IMCC), Ming Chuan TV station and Ming Chuan radio station.
