The Media School provides students with hands-on experience from their very first day. Students are in the classroom creating and designing, in the field reporting, in the lab researching and measuring, and in the studio editing and broadcasting.
IU won the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s Intercollegiate Competition writing competition six years in a row.
Read about the winning streak
"Black Ghost," directed by graduate student Caleb Allison and produced by the summer P460 Advanced Motion Picture Production course, won Best Short Screenplay at Circle City Film Festival.
The Indiana Daily Student's new Black Voices section, launched with Media School funding, provides a platform for Black students to share their stories.
Read about Black Voices
Students in The Media School’s Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism were part of a team that created the first nationwide county-by-county coronavirus tracker.
Read about the tracker
A self-organized group of students and faculty created an eight-minute animated film over the course of the 2017-18 academic year.
Read about the film
After completing their final broadcast as IU students — the Little 500 — Grace Ybarra and Griffin Gonzalez graduated with their dream jobs lined up.
Students pitch their video game concepts to industry experts in the annual Game Design Shark Tank conpetition. Surviving games move forward into production.
Read about Shark Tank
The Media School Graduate Association hosts Common Ground, an annual research conference on media in all forms and contexts.
Read about Common Ground
Students in Advertising Portfolio Workshop II created advertising campaigns for the multinational computer software company Adobe, specifically for the application Adobe Stock.
Read about the Adobe project