Greetings from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. The AUC journalism and mass communication program has gained distinction and recognition throughout the world by producing outstanding graduates who have gone on to play a major role in developing the region's print, advertising, and broadcast media. Our graduates are working as news anchors, correspondents, reporters, editors, directors, producers, writers, and camera operators with some of the most prestigious news organizations around the world. Others have joined multinational organizations as media relations specialists, research analysts and media planners. 

The general consensus among industry officials and other employers is that the graduates of the journalism and mass communication program at AUC are by far the most qualified in the region. They blend outstanding professional skills with fluency in English and Arabic and a deep understanding of the issues facing both the East and West.

Our graduates have worked at leading news organizations in the West such as CNN, the New York Times, New York 1, the International Herald Tribune, NBC, and Reuters. They have also helped to build the region's growing transnational media organizations, such as Al Jazeera, MBC, Dubai's Al Arabiya, Radio Sawa, NileTV, MSNBC in Arabic, and CNN Arabia. They have helped develop some of the most influential newspapers in the region, such as AlSharq Al Awsat, The Middle East Times, Al Ahram and Al Ahram Weekly, and Alam Al Youm, the region's first business daily. In addition, our graduates have been invited to provide insight into regional events on popular international programming such as PBS' Frontline, ABC's Nightline, BBC's Newsnight, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel. Alums include CNN's White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, Al-Jazeera's award-winning investigative correspondent and London bureau chief Yousri Foda, commentator and analyst Mona Al-Tahawy, senior producer and anchorman for CNBC Arabia Sami Zeidan, managing editor of Alam Al-Youm Lamees El Hadidy, Mona el Shazli and many more.

Our program has also produced a new generation of media and communications researchers and academic professionals at universities in the US and throughout the region. Students in the department of Journalism and Mass Communication are taught to think critically and creatively while being prepared to acquire suitable skills for successful careers in journalism, mass communications and related fields. Students are given a grounding in liberal arts and core course in the sciences and business are encouraged to prepare students for a lifetime of contribution to their communities as culturally tolerant and intellectually curious members of a civil and global society. Students are encouraged to write for the Caravan, AUC's student newspaper, study photography and graphic communications, participate in the many student activities on campus, and otherwise participate in the life of the campus and the events happening in the region. Students have a choice of three majors, journalism, communication and media arts, or integrated marketing communication.

The Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research provides the core course work for the undergraduate concentration major in journalism. The Adham Center also offers professional certificate courses in Video Editing, Studio Management, and Electronic News Gathering. The Communication and Media Arts covers a broad spectrum of critical perspectives on the media and introduces a range of contemporary media practices. The department's highly competitive Integrated Marketing Communication major is a cross-disciplinary program that blends marketing education with advertising and graphic design skills. 

The department of Journalism and Mass Communication is also dedicated to creating an environment that fosters academic research in media and communication throughout the region. Arab Media & Society (formally TBS journal) provides researchers from around the world with a forum for topics related to the changing media, political and cultural landscapes of the Arab Region.  The department also publishes the Arabic edition of the Global Media Journal http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/gmj/, a journal that is devoted exploring the world of global communication. 

Located in the heart of the Middle East, at the crossroads between the East and the West, in a city thousands of years old yet still leading the region in journalism, broadcasting, media, culture, and education, the American University in Cairo's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication is changing the face of communication throughout the region.