The Point This award-winning feature magazine is published at the end of each fall and spring semester. Work on The Point’s staff, some of it by competitive application only, gives students hands-on experience in production of a full- color, slick-page publication. Student editors choose each edition’s theme and select stories and photos from the best work of staff and student freelancers. Point staffers get training and experience in copy-editing, photojournalism and page design. Their name on the masthead of this publication, along with hard-earned skills, provide a leaping off point for magazine or publishing careers. PRSSA The Biola chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) builds ties between students and professionals in the Los Angeles region and nationally. Students in PRSSA do event planning, community service projects, and hear from guest speakers on best practices for developing into successful leaders and practitioners of corporate, non-profit or ministry-related public relations and marketing. Journalist In Residence Biola’s location in one of the nation’s top media markets makes it a crossroads for journalists and public relations professionals of national and international renown. The Department of Journalism invites selected professionals and successful alumni to speak on special topics in a one- unit course credit experience for students tailored to the trends and events of California, the Southwestern United States, the nation, and other parts of the world. Journalism Boot Camp Biola public relations students host an annual event for area high school students to provide an overview of skills for news and public relations applicable to scholastic media and preparation for college media experience. The event includes guest speakers and competition for prizes in reporting, writing and / or visual media. Off-Campus Program Opportunities Biola offers several off-campus program opportunities geared to students earning a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. More information about these experiential learning programs can be found in the Off-campus Programs section of this catalog, or at biola.edu/offcampusprograms. Students interested in any of these programs should consult with an academic advisor as early as possible. American Studies Program This program, set in Washington, D.C., is ideal for students who want a better grasp of communications within government agencies. The program, run by the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, provides public policy discussion and coursework along with opportunities for both public relations and journalistic internships. See bestsemester.com for details.
On-campus Study Opportunities
Biola Radio Biola’s award-winning student-run web radio programming gives students hands-on experience in reporting news and features, covering campus and regional sports, and creating talk-show format programming around Christian music and news trends. Student work takes place in an on-campus studio or in field-reporting. EagleVision Biola’s student-run Webcast programming uses state-of- the-art studio and field equipment to cover news events, sports and trends facing the Biola campus and surrounding regions of southern Los Angeles and northern Orange County. Eagle Vision staff get practical experience in deadline reporting, script-writing, anchoring, editing and producing packages for Internet broadcast. Eagle Vision also uses CNN footage for localized coverage of world events. Talk-show studio formats are used to provide students experience with news-feature variety in programming. The Chimes and Chimes Online Biola’s award-winning weekly newspaper provides deadline experience in reporting, writing, photojournalism, graphics design and multimedia for the Web. Editors and business staff, funded by scholarship, are chosen by competitive application a year in advance. Staff members are selected annually for expertise in select media areas (e.g. Advertising staff are selected for background in marketing). Staff training for the editorial and advertising staff provides students with incentives for excellence in portfolio material. Chimes Online, a stand-alone staff of writers, photographers, and multimedia producers provides daily, interactive news and feature coverage of the campus and the La Mirada region. The Chimes’ print and online versions also adapt stories from the Associated Press for Biola’s audiences. The Biolan Biola’s yearbook — one of the oldest forms of student media on the campus — provides students experience in magazine-style feature writing, feature and documentary- style photojournalism and four-color page design in a context that gives student journalists insight to careers in magazine production and book publishing. Editors are chosen a year in advance, but section editors are selected in fall semesters to serve through the year.
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