Journalism implies traditional writing such as newspaper and magazine work. Communiciations is a broader term that implies any means of communications from newspapers to the internet. Broadcast communications generally refers to radio and teleivsion. Mass communications refers to communications in multiple or all forms to the masses or in mass.

All ususally, except for Journalism, refer primarily to the Radio and TV broadcasting deparments or courses offered at school which differns from Cinema or Filmmaking.

Technically they are interrelated and somewhat similar. It could be the names stick because of how long the school has been there.

In the old days a reporter saw events happening, like wars, demonstrations, elections and they documented what they saw in a book or journal, like a diary. And thus became known as journalists. Today most use tape recorders, video cameras or digital recorders, but many still keep a notebook or journal.

In the old days they had to travel far and wide and when they found a telelgraph office they transmitted abstracts or stories from their journal via the telegraph. You could call that broadcast communiciations. THe newspapers then printed it for people in New York to read. You can call this mass communications.

This was especially important if the person reporting was connected with a sydication service like AP or Reuters. They send it to AP. AP then sends it en mass to all newspapers and radio stations that subscribe to their service.

With the advent or Radio and Television they would get this AP and Reuetrs raw feeds and then writers on staff would turn these into story bits of time. Two minutes for this, three minutes for that.

The PRoducer would then decide where in the evening to put which story or to drop a story or to shorten a story or to feature one and make it longer.

This is then handed over to an on the air announcer or Program Host in Radio or to a televisioin News Caster, Sports Caster or Weather Caster as they case may be as copy.

They then read this story at a deisgnated point in time.

These people are all trained in Broadcast Communications.

They are not necessarily trained as journalists, but they are a form of it.

In television Journalists are basically called Reporters. Newspapers tend to call them that too.

Originally the journalist was a totally in the field person you never saw. The worked the world and reported it back to someone who told it to you and me.

These Journalists being kidnapped in the Middle East will never host a prime time newscast on a daily basis as a general rule.

They are the front line, but because of the nature of todays world they are probably trained in Broadcast Journalism, because they may need to be.

That field reporter may have to uplike their own stories at some station. They may have to know how to plug in equipment.

It used to be all on-air people had to have an FCC class 1 license, no longer required.

No one can turn on or turn off a connection to the broadcast anntenna unless they have a Class 1 FCC license.

A friend of mine’s job was to shut down a cable TV station at 2 am. Her job was to switch off all the live feed and just leave on that slide image that says we are off the air until tomorrow at 5 am.

Only she could do that by law. She threw one switch and then shut down master control power.

She was a Broadcasting major in college.

Journalism deals with writing, stories, reporting.

Communications deals with the theories and methods of communication. The types, the means, the McLuen aspects of it.

Broadcast Communications can and usually includes the technical aspects of how Broadcasting is done, the theories or radio, waves, wiring, central control, the equipment as well as the theories and on the air practises.

Communications -or mass communications- is the vague term of a major that encompasses many different aspect of the communications field, including news reporting, public relations, advertising, etc. Journalism is a specific type of communication- the process of gathering, writing and reporting the news via a vareity of methods (tv, newspapers, magazines, internet). Broadcast is an even more specialized area of news gathering and reporting by way of the airwaves (tv/radio). You don’t have to be a reporter if you major in Journalism or Communication. Or you can become a reporter without having studied Comm. I studied journalism during undergrad and I never worked for the media as a paid professional. Since college, I’ve worked as a legal assistant, administrative assistant, and currently as a public school teacher. In a few years, I might be a lawyer as I’m currently considering law school. Times have changed. We are no longer confined to work within our majors.

journalism is transporting information in writing, communications is verbally passing it along. i believe broadcast communications and mass are pretty much the same general thing. with any communications major you can do far more than reporting. for example tv show hosts. same for journalism. you can write for magazines and stuff too. anything involving writing

Not totally sure about this

thanks to each and every one of you guys for the answers!