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I seriously wouldn't do anything more than a minor in any major with "journalism" in it (says the girl with a BA in, and this is not a joke, Journalism with an emphasis in French and Film Analysis). Journalism is a dying art and putting too much emphasis on it will diminish the time spent learning stuff that will actually pay her later on. If she majors in English, Communications, Marketing, Political Science, whatever, and minors in Journalism, and then beats doors down to get internships, she may actually have a future. But remind her that a career in broadcast journalism will almost assuredly put her behind the camera in BF North Dakota for 5 years before she can even think about going to a real place.
Mizzou is a good idea, as is Washington in St. Louis, but any good state school (because they offer lots of majors), will probably do. But the one where she's going to have the most connections to TV people is where she should focus. From what I've been able to gather, networking is going to be 90% of what gets her anywhere, being pretty another 9% and actual knowledge/talent, 1%.
My home town (of about 65,000 when I was growing up) had a local TV station, and a couple local girls were able to get good news jobs, although neither ever went network. In both cases they went to Iowa and both ended up working for NBC affiliates in Iowa. One ended up at what could be considered a regional job.
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