Laurier Grads are Successful
Laurier Graduate Survey Results (2019)
Respondents from the Laurier Graduate Survey conducted by Career Centre. Graduates were surveyed within 12 months of graduation.
9 Digital Media and Journalism Graduates:
- Employed: 57.1%
- Pursuing Further Education: 28.6%
- Looking for Work: 14.3%
Sample Jobs within the First Year After Graduation
- communications coordinator
- corporate translator
- content and events specialist
- junior copywriter
- social media coordinator
Sample Further Education Programs within the First Year After Graduation
- Master’s degree: Journalism and Communication, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory.
- College program: Technical Writing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing.
- JD: Law.
Careers of Alumni Two-Five Years After Graduation
- associate editor
- broadcast journalist
- digital editor
- freelance writer and copywriter
- human resources coordinator
- public relations coordinator
- reporter/anchor
- social media strategist
Develop Your Knowledge and Skills
At Laurier, develop these competencies through both curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help you achieve your goals for the future.
Functional Knowledge
- Develop observational skills that will help you interpret events and issues and communicate them clearly, accurately, fairly and effectively through digital storytelling.
- Conduct comprehensive research and be able to verify information from a broad range of sources.
- Critically analyze contemporary issues including local, national and global politics, and culture and how they relate to the media.
- Understand the legal and ethical responsibilities of journalists and media professionals.
- Discover how information is sourced, valued and used in creating new knowledge.
Collaboration & Teamwork
- Work effectively as part of a team by contributing, leading, teaching, motivating and/or encouraging others for team success.
- Lead or contribute to a shared project through determining goals, planning details, making decisions and completing tasks.
- Demonstrate professional behaviour and an understanding of individual perspectives and diversity.
Communication
- Demonstrate excellent skills in listening, questioning, reasoning, clarifying and interviewing to gather the most relevant information to produce high-quality digital stories.
- Effectively synthesize a wide breadth of information to create a story or message that is clear, concise, comprehensive, accurate and engaging.
- Understand how to communicate ideas and information to audiences with different levels of literacy and different perspectives and backgrounds.
- Determine the right medium - a podcast, a video, a magazine feature, an interactive graphic, a data visualization - to reach a particular audience for any given story or message.
- Prepare interesting and informative reports and presentations for diverse audiences using a range of current technology.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Identify and access a wide range of relevant information and resources.
- Locate, analyze and evaluate different types of data, polls and statistics from a variety of sources.
- Discover how to use emerging tools and technology and evaluate their usefulness.
- Set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time, data and resources.
- Think creatively, consider all sides of an issue and make well-reasoned decisions.