Programs
AMVJ doesn't build you from scratch, it builds on the foundation you've already laid. The program takes the technical skills honed in service and elevates them to the level of a world-class communications professional.
AMVJ students master the art of telling a story through images and words, and they do it at one of the top journalism schools in the country. This program doesn't start from zero. It takes your existing technical expertise and builds a rigorous communications education around it, combining advanced skills training with a deep command of contemporary visual storytelling.
Every Newhouse class is led by industry practitioners, professionals at the top of their field who bring real-world intensity to the classroom and invest in every student one-on-one.
The service member who walks out of Newhouse after a year carries something no deployment can give them: a mastery of visual language that will define their career for decades.
Shared courses
(As of 2025-26 year)
AI for Creative Professionals
The future of visual storytelling isn’t coming, it’s already here. Master it now.
Generative AI is reshaping every phase of production, and AMVJ operators don’t get left behind. In this intensive, hands-on course, you’ll harness the most powerful AI platforms in the industry to supercharge your preproduction process, building stunning previsualizations, pressure-testing story concepts, and generating cinematic ideas at a speed that would have been impossible five years ago.
You’ll learn to use AI as a production tool, completing a real visual project (a concept trailer, music video, or short film) by integrating these platforms with traditional software. Then you’ll take it further, using AI to build the assets that market and distribute your finished work. This is the full pipeline. Operate it.
Audio for Multimedia
Great images without great sound aren’t great stories. Close the gap.
Sound is half the story, and most visual communicators underestimate it until they can’t anymore. This course closes that gap. Through a series of demanding creative projects, you’ll master the full audio production chain: location recording, Foley, sound effects, voiceover, and music editing. You’ll operate professional recording equipment and post-production software with the fluency your work demands.
The techniques are rooted in video and film, but the command you build here applies across every audiovisual format you’ll touch in your career. Sound is your weapon. Learn to use it.
Communications Law
You can’t tell the truth if you don’t know the law. Know the law.
Elite communicators don’t operate in the dark. This course arms you with a command of First Amendment law and the full spectrum of media-related legal frameworks, so that every decision you make in the field is informed, intentional, and defensible. You’ll cover defamation, privacy, news-gathering, access to court proceedings, confidential sources, and open records law.
You’ll also tackle the legal frontier: deepfakes, commercial speech, broadcast regulation, copyright, and the evolving landscape of the internet. The world is complicated. Your understanding of it shouldn’t be.
Cross Media News Writing
Every platform has its own language. By the time this course ends, you’ll speak all of them.
Print. Broadcast. Web. Social. Each medium has a distinct grammar, its own style, format, and logic. This course doesn’t teach you to write for one platform; it builds a communicator who can operate across all of them without losing a beat. You’ll master the conventions of news writing for every major medium, cover photo captioning, and build the foundational reporting and editing skills that carry through every journalism class you’ll take at Newhouse.
By the end, you’re multi-lingual in news. That’s the standard. That’s the mission.
Multimedia Production
Audio. Video. Story. One seamless weapon.
This course is where technical command meets creative ambition. You’ll push your lighting, composition, and storytelling instincts to a new level while expanding your technical toolkit in both video and photography. The work here goes beyond the printed page, you’ll explore the full power of combined audio and video to advance narratives that demand to be felt, not just seen.
By the time you complete this course, you’ll have a clear-eyed understanding of multimedia’s impact on the current digital media landscape, and the skills to define that impact yourself.
Social Media, Design and Production
Visibility is a strategy. Build it like one.
Knowing how to create isn’t enough if your work doesn’t reach the audience it deserves. This course trains you to think strategically about social media, understanding how platforms behave, how audiences engage, and how to build campaigns that move people to action. Working in teams, you’ll develop a full strategic social media campaign plan from research through execution-ready delivery.
You’ll master social listening, content development, and the tactics that turn a platform presence into a
mission asset.