Undergraduate
A future-focused, practice-based program where students do learn to do journalism early, expand audiences, distinguish facts from misinformation, and tell consequential stories across platforms.
The country’s leading Journalism program prepares students to seek information, assess evidence, interview people and produce accurate, compelling public-interest stories across traditional and emerging platforms, ready for journalism today and tomorrow. Students work across text, audio, video, data and live formats while learning the legal, ethical and cultural and historical foundations of responsible reporting.
Professional newsroom practice and opportunities for publication are central to the program. Students make editorial judgments in real-world contexts, explain complex issues clearly and earn audience trust at a time of misinformation and technological change. They graduate with a portfolio, adaptable future-ready skills and experience collaborating in different environments where journalism is made.
Full-time format
4 years
Degree earned
Bachelor of Journalism
Experiential learning
Global learning • Internship option available
Admission requirements
Grades only
What sets this program apart
Students, regardless of previous experience, learn about journalism by producing it for real audiences from early on. Canada's largest school of journalism, TMU combines reporting, verification and public accountability in our professional newsrooms, television news studio, audio and editing facilities, multimedia production and opportunities to experiment with emerging forms of storytelling in one of North America’s most dynamic media markets where everything happens and students are there to witness it.
Skills students develop
- Reporting, interviewing and source development
- Verification, fact-checking and research
- Writing, editing and story structure
- Audio, video, data and digital production
- News judgment, ethics and media law
- Investigative and public-interest reporting
- Newsroom collaboration and audience engagement
Career possibilities
- Reporter, correspondent or multimedia journalist
- Editorial staff, producer or newsroom leader
- Audio, podcast and documentary production
- Data, investigative and visual journalism
- Audience, engagement and newsletter roles
- Research, fact-checking and verification
- Communications and public-interest storytelling
Employers
Employers range from national to international firms.
- CBC
- Bell Media
- Toronto Star
- Globe and Mail
- The Green Line
- Penguin Random House Canada
- The Athletic
- The Walrus
- Macleans
The TMU and downtown Toronto advantage
Students report from the centre of Canada's largest media market and one of its most diverse cities. Proximity to national newsrooms, courts, governments, cultural institutions, grounded by communities who experience the world in many different ways, together providing a rich reporting environment. The program is taught by dedicated full-time faculty extended by journalists working at the top of their craft, supported by incredible guests, expansive internships and deep alumni and professional relationships.
Explore Your Journey
Alumni Spotlight
"The Journalism program at The Creative School taught me how to be an effective storyteller. I was able to enhance my communication skills, both written and oral, while in the initial stages of learning what it truly means to be a journalist. From faculty to staff to my peers, I was part of a community of people who were there to cheer you on."