Mass Communication Scholarships

Apply for a Mass Communication Scholarship

Engage with and create media using reporting, broadcasting and communication skills. You have the option to participate in more than one activity, broadening your journalism and entertainment programming. Interested in what you can do in our department? Check our online collection of media student works.

View Our Student Media work

Interview and Submission Information

Mass Communication scholarships are available in a variety of amounts as cash endowed scholarships payable toward your tuition. Students applying must have earned at least a 2.0 GPA in their most recent semester.

Radio/TV Production

Butler Radio (KBTL-FM) is operated by scholarship students who broadcast music, sports, and campus news throughout Butler County. Scholarship students appear on air, produce, and direct programs for our YouTube channel through Arktos Moving Images.

For Your Interview

Submit:

a résumé
a sample of your work (link to on-line portfolio containing audio/video projects and written work preferred)
a letter of recommendation from a high school counselor or teacher.

Sports Media

Students broadcast live coverage, write news stories, and take photos of athletic events.

For Your Interview

Submit:

a résumé.
a sample of your work.
a letter of recommendation from a high school counselor or teacher.

Newspaper

Our student staff maintains a tradition of state and national honors. The Lantern is published multiple times a year by and for students. Scholarship journalists write, edit and produce the newspaper in modern journalism facilities. If you have photography, cartooning or other media skills, check us out.

For Your Interview

Submit:

a résumé.
a sample of your work (or photography).
a letter of recommendation from a high school counselor or journalism teacher.

Magazine

The student full-color magazine, The Grizzly, serves as a history of the academic, social, and athletic activities of Butler students while they attend college. Publication is in the hands of scholarship journalists and the faculty advisor.

For Your Interview

Submit:

a résumé.
a sample of your work (or photography).
a letter of recommendation from a high school counselor or journalism teacher.

Contact Us

Feel free to reach out our department with questions at masscomm@butlercc.edu.

Dr. Keith West, Mass Communication Chair and KBTL-FM General Manager (Radio/TV and Sports Media)
Amy Hornbaker, Assistant Professor (Magazine and Sports Media)
Amy Chastain, Assistant Professor (Newspaper)