The Journalism program seeks to prepare students to enter the workforce in journalism and its related fields (such as public relations and advertising) and to offer opportunities to students making a career switch or needing to meet the changing technological demands of the field. The program also seeks to prepare students to transfer to four-year institutions as journalism majors and to train students to be media-literate members of the community.<br>Instruction is supplemented by hands-on experience working for the student newspaper, The Skyline View, and its online and social media accounts. Students in the program publish Viewpoint magazine in the spring. Students also attend local and regional conferences and have opportunities to pursue internships and jobs in the field.<br>Skyline College's Journalism Program is both an academic and career technical program that prepares students to enter the workforce in journalism and related fields.<br>Journalism aims to inform, enlighten, and provide people with a truer sense of their world. It sparks dialogue and engages with the public in a way that highlights the things that are working in society alongside those that are not. Journalism has the power to spur action and drive change.