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Complaint Review: University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism - College Park Maryland
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University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
1100 Knight Hall, 7765 Alumni Drive College Park, 20742 Maryland, USA
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University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism Horrible Journalism School that Deceives all Undergraduate Broadcast Journalism Students and Minority Students of an Journalism Career College Park Maryland
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During my time at the College of Journalism, I applied to the Capital News Service TV's Broadcast Bureau (CNS-TV) and The ViewFinder, and was declined multiple times. There were no other further opportunities for undergraduate broadcast journalism students like me to be a television news reporter. The other non-Capital News Service and non-viewfinder capstone courses neither meet the undergraduate broadcast students’ interest in television news reporting nor prepare them to be a television news reporter.
I have already taken the initial steps to resolve this by speaking to the Undergraduate Dean: Olive Reid and the Dean of Academic Affairs: Rafael Lorente. My option from them was to take a capstone course that had nothing to do with my career aspirations. Mr. Lorente told to "get any job."
The advice I was given by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism advisers were not successful, and has caused problems for me with news directors and recruiters well-known broadcast companies and its local television news station affiliates, and I do not have one. I cannot even get a job as a television news reporter with your journalism school because I was neither given the opportunity to do Capital News Service by Ms. Susan "Sue" Kopen-Katcef nor The ViewFinder by Ms. Bethany Swain (this person mistreats learning-disabled students)
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland has already failed to help me and other students as a television news reporter to find work in the field. Not many of the undergraduate broadcast students can get into the Capital News Service Program or The ViewFinder. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism has made the excuse of saying, “there are not enough seats guaranteed for CNS-TV or The ViewFinder as we must make these seats available for the master’s students and we do not have enough professors to teach the undergraduate sections.” But actually, the school has money.
These courses and opportunities are already guaranteed to master’s students, but not to undergraduate students. I have seen some undergraduate broadcast journalism students doing both CNS-TV and The ViewFinder in consecutive semesters.
Other students are then forced to take a capstone course that has neither to do in being an on-air television news reporter nor preparing them in being one. The other courses do not have any opportunity for students to do tv news reporting or make a reel for tv news. The students have to do that on their own time which can be difficult.
Many news organizations do not have resources to help their employees make a demo reel. The students are forced to either make a reel using material from previous broadcast classes or doing an internship reel or paying a broadcast talent agency to make a demo reel. Then, when it comes time for jobs, these students cannot apply for reporting jobs without an excellent reel showcasing their work, their skills, and their personality.
There are no other reasonable options for them.
They are forced to take a job as a desk assistant, news assistant or a production assistant and other jobs where the news organization or company do not have resources to help their employees make a demo reel and will tell applicants and employees that this is something they have to do on their own. This means the company or news organization is neither responsible nor liable for making a demo reel for its employees.
This strongly suggests that some of the undergraduate broadcast journalism students are taking CNS-TV and The ViewFinder for granted where the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and these undergraduate broadcast students selected to the courses are stealing these opportunities from other undergraduate broadcast journalism students who truly need these programs and opportunities in order to obtain employment as a television news reporter and/or a television news anchor.
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is forcing their students to do a job that they do not like and where they may never be an on-air television news reporter or a producer. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is not doing enough for their undergraduate broadcast journalism students.
Philip Merrill College of Journalism is playing a game with its current students, prospective students, and transfer students' career goals in regards to CNS-TV and The Viewfinder, and not publicly telling them the truth and seriously impacting their career goals. This school did not help me at all and completely abandoned me during my senior year.
The school and its staff did not care about what happened to their students and don't even know how to help them. I cannot find employment in journalism field because of the Philip Merill College of Journalism. The school just want students' money.
To prospective and transfer students, this school is not telling you the truth and just want your money. All the University of Maryland and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism care about is your money. They will squander it.
Please go to another undergraduate journalism school that will fully allow you to be a tv news reporter or anchor guaranteed. Capital News Service TV, The ViewFinder, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and the University of Maryland are not worth it.
This school does not care about its students at all as claim in advertisements.
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#2Author of original report
Thu, April 20, 2017
Only 7 to 8 undergraduate students are able to do Capital News Service TV (CNS-TV)and The ViewFinder per semester. So, the majority of the undergraduate broadcast journalism students are unable to do it, especially with having a resume and internships, cover letter, 5 samples of best news story packages work (2 self-shooting and editing video packages for The Viewfinder), and a completed online application and everything that both The ViewFinder and CNS-TV have requested. The majority of students do not know what CNS-TV and The ViewFinder are looking for from students.
The students are not interviewed for these programs and the school does not know the actual predicament they are putting the students in who are unable to do Capital News Service and The ViewFinder. Some cannot get a news video reporting opportunity with school's newspaper, The Diamondback. Internships, career events, and others opportunities in the school might not be enough or even be helpful in this. Even CNS-TV and The ViewFinder does not show the true real-world reality of working in the field as a reporter and doesn't 100 percent adequately fully prepare students for the actual challenges and adversities in television news.
The majority of students do not know what CNS-TV and The ViewFinder are looking for from students. The students are not interviewed for these programs and the school does not know the actual predicament they are putting the students in who are unable to do Capital News Service and The ViewFinder. Some cannot get a news video reporting opportunity with school's newspaper, The Diamondback. Internships, career events, and others opportunities in the school might not be enough or even be helpful in this. Even CNS-TV and The ViewFinder does not show the true real-world reality of working in the field as a reporter.
Some cannot get a news video reporting opportunity with school's newspaper, The Diamondback. Internships, career events, and others opportunities in the school might not be enough or even be helpful in this. Even CNS-TV and The ViewFinder does not show the true real-world reality of working in the field as a reporter.
CNS-TV and The Viewfinder are not real. Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Capital News Service, The ViewFinder, Bethany Swain, Susan "Sue" Kopen-Katcef and all of the faculty screw me out of an employment opportunity in the broadcast journalism field, screw me out of my education, screw me of my money, and most important, Philip Merrill College of Journalism screw me over in me trying to actively find employment in the television news field across all local, national and international media outlet. They screw me over with Capital News Service TV. They screw me over with The ViewFinder.
These were opportunities many students like me didn't have.They lied to students and parents in orientation sessions. They do not tell the full honest truth.
Some don't even know until it is too late and in their senior year. For others, it can happen in your freshman year and onward when you first walk through Knight Hall.
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism never care about me at all and do not really care about what happen to me. They don't care that I do not have a journalism job at a small market television news station. They do not care that I am unemployed.
They didn't care that I needed help. I asked for help and was discarded and thrown away like trash.
Philip Merrill College of Journalism simply abandoned me and wanted nothing to do with me. I was nothing to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Students were nothing to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
They didn't care about me then and they don't care about me now.
They do not care about students at all. Philip Merrill College of Journalism throw away students' career as trash. They don't care you. They throw students away.
Screw you, Philip Merrill College of Journalism! Screw you!
Stacey
Texas,USA
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#3Consumer Comment
Thu, April 20, 2017
You cannot expect to land a job with no experience. You need to start AT THE BOTTOM and work you way up to the top like everyone else. Just because you have a "degree" does not guarantee you a job at any news station.
Grow up - I had to work hard to get where I am today just like others.
