Careers in Communications Innovation

Potential careers for communications innovators include:

• Cable and broadcast networks, film studios, and telecommunications companies: digital distribution executives, new media market strategists, new business developers, creative producers, and directors

• Corporate communications, information technologies, and learning/development: chief learning officers, digital community managers, knowledge management leaders, chief technology officers

• Not-for-profits and nongovernmental organizations: vice presidents of programs and services, assistant ministers of health and education, fund-raising and community development managers

• Advertising, public relations, and marketing communications: digital strategists, mobile marketing leaders, chief creative officers

• Media production and new technology companies: writers, executive producers, directors for entertainment media, game developers, new media hardware and software developers and marketers

• Higher education: professors of new media, deans and assistant provosts for online learning, educational technologists, and courseware developers