Hey guys!
I’m a bit confused on what exactly communication and journalism majors are. I have done research on both majors but they seem quite similar. I wanted to know if any one can help me in clearing up my confusion and seeing in which would be better to major in. I love writing, reading and interacting with people; I would want to either work for a newspaper or maybe be on TV. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it! Thank you in advance!
This is kind of late and you most likely do not need this information anymore, but to anybody who happens to find this and is curious, these are the differences between journalism and communications.
Journalism is a basically a branch of communications. Journalism is heavily focused on writing, especially for news, but you can use the writing skills learned in journalism in other jobs as well. Most journalism graduates enter public relations, broadcasting, reporting, or writing for online news sources (papers too, although it is dying).
Communication is a major containing journalism, marketing, advertising, social media, public relations, some psychology, and media studies. You use communications in almost any job and business, and the degree teaches one how to best communicate an idea to a group of people. This is why it is called communications. Depending on your college it can be a very broad field (it typically is).
If you want to skip around in fields, communication is a wonderful choice, but if you want a really great writing job, journalism is the way to go. Employers tend to prefer hiring journalism graduates for writing and journalism jobs, but communication graduates can find work in the journalism field too.
Based on what your post told me, I would say your goals would be better met with a journalism major over a communication major.
Best of luck to you and everyone else who is curious about this!