被新闻业吸引的学生有兴趣成为强有力的传播者并讲别人的故事。新闻工作者必须能够收集和解释信息，并将信息打包并传播给听众。这需要广泛的文科教育，以及有关写作，报告和编辑技术的专门培训。此外，多媒体培训对于在新闻领域瞬息万变的竞争中很有必要。这些基本技能必须在了解记者工作所在的社会，该社会的需求以及该社会内信息分发的后果的前提下进行。
Students attracted to journalism are interested in becoming strong communicators and telling the stories of others. Journalists must be able to gather and interpret information and package and disseminate that information to their audiences. This requires a broad liberal arts education coupled with specific training in the techniques of writing, reporting and editing. In addition, multimedia training is necessary to be competitive in the changing landscape of the field of journalism. These basic skills must be carried out with an understanding of the society within which the journalist is working, the needs of that society and the consequences of the distribution of information within that society.