Program Update Fall 2025: Come join our certificate program this fall as we go fully online. In eight months, you can receive a certificate in journalism with a portfolio of work you have done. Show employers in the news industry and in communications that you can write news articles, shoot photo essays, record, host podcasts and produce online journalism stories. We have room and you can take our program from anywhere in the world.
Langara Journalism gives students intensive hands-on training in all the skills required for successful careers in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the web.
The department teaches the fundamentals of journalism while replicating what it’s like to be in today's newsrooms. Specialties include story telling for multi-media platforms, news writing, research and interviewing, copy editing, newspaper layout and design, and media law and ethics.
All the instructors have had successful careers as reporters, editors, producers, broadcasters, photographers, and online editors in a variety of media, from small community papers to urban television stations to national dailies to international publications.
Please see our program page for more details.