Student reports:
Border Clinic Treats Impoverished Sonoran Children
On April 3, 2008, reporters from Border Beat visited the St. Andrew's Children's Clinic with the goal of allowing you, the reader, an opportunity to experience the clinic through words, images, audio and video. Read More...
Café Justo: Fair, Fresh and Pesticide-Free
A quiet revolution was born in the town of Salvador Urbina in Chiapas, Mexico, when several small farming families joined together to form the first of a number of organic coffee growing co-operatives more than five years ago. Read More...
Art and Funky Clothing from the Unknown

Los Desconocidos, a nonprofit sewing and artist cooperative that began with the intention of cleaning up the Sonoran Desert, is now working to turn that trash into treasure and help families struggling to survive.
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Welcome from the department head
Welcome to the electronic home of The University of Arizona Department of Journalism. Our newly redesigned Web site should better help visitors learn about the students, faculty, courses and programs of the Department of Journalism. Read More...
Department News:
Graduate students return to journalism department
At an Aug. 22 orientation, journalism department staff welcomed graduate students back to the department
for the first time in 10 years.
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UA Journalism graduate makes historic Olympic call
When Michael Phelps swam into Olympic history Aug. 17, a graduate of The University of Arizona
Department of Journalism was there to make the call.
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Look for your summer 2008 issue of The Cursor
The department's annual publication for alumni is in the mail! Can't wait? Read it
online.
UA Journalism professor writes about need for foreign correspondents
A UA laureate professor of journalism and Latin American Studies discusses the need for well-trained journalists.
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UA students look at Argentina's environmental issues in series for Arizona Daily Star
This spring, 10 UA student reporters traveled to Argentina, the second-biggest and third-most-populous Latin American country. Their assignment: to see how a nation still trying to emerge from economic turbulence is addressing -- or ignoring -- growing global environmental priorities.
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UA Journalism professor, student to receive top awards at journalism conference
An assistant professor and a May 2008 graduate of The University of Arizona Department of Journalism will be honored for producing the top research paper and news story, respectively, from the field's key professional association.
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Sharkey hopeful about journalism's future
At a panel discussion on international journalism this spring sponsored by the UA journalism department, an audience member asked how the UA curriculum prepares students.
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High school students publish annual newspaper for Journalism Diversity Workshop
Thirteen Arizona high school students attended the University of Arizona Journalism Department's annual Journalism Diversity Workshop. Check out the paper the students published.
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Master's program has international flavor with 3 degrees to choose from
The journalism master's program has a strong international orientation to two critically important areas in the world: Latin America and the Middle East. Students interested in international journalism have three options. First, the journalism master's program can be tailored to students interested in international news coverage.
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