News & Sports Media

• Practice your craft and make a difference in your community by joining one of our award-winning student media outlets.
• Enter the newsroom when you join the program on day one.
• Find and pursue your storytelling passion and specialization.
• Learn from former journalists, editors, photographers, and sports broadcasters how to tell stories across platforms.
• Experience all facets of sports journalism and prepare for an exciting career.
• Develop your technical, critical, and creative skills through our experience-driven curriculum.
• Tap into our broad alumni network to explore career opportunities.
• Become Job Ready through many extracurricular activities and events.

Whether you see yourself on an anchor desk, on an NFL sideline, in the broadcast booth, on all the social media platforms or behind the camera, we prepare you for all aspects of an ever-changing business of news and sports content creation

Instead of waiting a year or two, you can join and be actively involved with our award-winning student media organizations from day one, such as:

• Collegian Media Group: Our award-winning newspaper, yearbook, magazine, and digital team will let you produce from day one.
• KKSU-TV: Sweeping the Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards this year, including best newscast in the state, Channel 8 News is your home for work that gets you noticed.
• Wildcat 91.9 FM: A big winner in multiple competitions statewide and regionally, this isn’t your normal college station. Here, you can immediately be a part of our on-air team and produce the content you want to produce on KSDB-FM Wildcat 91.1, broadcasting for over 70 years.

The A.Q. Miller School scholarship program is one of the largest funders of education in K-State’s College of Arts and Sciences, giving nearly $190,000 in annual scholarships to students. News and Sports Media students can apply for need-based and merit-based scholarships each academic year.

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News & Sports Media students are able to customize their degree by pursuing specializations. Along with completing a core set of courses that help them understand the dynamics of media and journalism, students can focus their learning and provide more structure and personalization to their degree by selecting a specialization in the areas of news, sports, or photography.

Additionally, students can pursue a minor and/or certificates in niche interest areas such as social media management, sports & entertainment, or film studies.

View NSM Curriculum Guide