Fall 2025 Journalism Capstone Projects
This fall, 14 journalism students completed their Multi-Platform Capstone project. The class is a student’s final project, in which they demonstrate their ability to bring together multimedia journalistic skills and produce a significant journalistic project or product.
Students must show a firm understanding of writing, reporting, visual storytelling, research, analysis, investigative techniques and multi-platform delivery. Most students take JOUR 40983 (which is required of all journalism majors) during their final semester at TCU, though some choose to take it a semester early. Click the titles below to view each complete story or see the projects from previous semesters:
Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025
| Three’s company: How a decade-old law failed to protect family housing near TCU by Kiley Beykirch |
| Inside the Lines: Analyzing the challenges of campus parking at TCU by Taylor Chronert |
| The Sutton Smith story: From attic startup to multi-million dollar venture by Tatum DeHart |
| The invisible transition: Young adults with chronic illnesses face challenges when transitioning to adult care by Caroline Denning |
| Come and film it: The journey and implications of Senate Bill 22 by Ella Hestand |
| Why I stopped reading journalism—and what I learned when I started again by Sydney Jansen |
| Paving the way as a first-generation student by Madilyn Kopec |
| Spinning the wheel: Indigent defense in Tarrant County by Sydney Miller |
| How nicotine products hijacked a generation by Maeve Molina |
| The new CalTex pipeline by Alexah Montanes |
| Harmful or Helpful? AI-directed therapies by Josie Straface |