J-School at Michigan State University

Welcome to the blog site of the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. My name is Jane Briggs-Bunting, and I'm the Director and blogger for this site.

I will talk about J-School news, special opportunities and events. This is the place to come for info on deadlines for scholarships, special ticket giveaways, and great opportunities to meet professionals visiting campus. I also want to provide a more direct link to you sharing information concerning resources you may not know of that are available to you.

For now, let's start the conversation with my Top Ten Reasons Big TEN MSU is the place to study journalism:

Because in the J-School:

1. We’ve been teaching journalism at MSU since 1910.

2. We were among the first schools in the nation to earn accreditation back in 1949 and have been continuously accredited ever since.

3. We have an award winning faculty with extensive professional credentials in print, broadcast, magazine, information graphics and design.

4. We have award-winning students who win and place in national and regional journalism competitions.

5. We have a who’s who of alumni throughout the U.S. and the world.

6. We invented the Capital News Service, a much imitated subscription service where students cover the state capital for member newspapers across Michigan.

7. We began the nationally and internationally acclaimed Victims and the Media Program to train professional journalists and students how to cover tragedies, crime and disasters without further traumatizing the victims and how to deal with this stress themselves.

8. We are the home of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.

9. We offer more than $80,000 in journalism scholarships to our majors.

10. We place students in internships across the nation from small market newspapers and broadcast outlets to national major market publications and outlets.

And what the heck, the Big Ten has 11 universities, so…

11. We have some of the best student run media outlets in the nation: the award- winning independent State News, Focal Point TV news magazine, The Big Green online magazine, IMPACT Radio and the online boundary pushing www.spartanedge.com.