OUR MISSION
For more than 50 years, the University of Arizona Journalism School has provided students with the intellectual training and professional skills that journalists need to cover complex events and issues wherever they occur.Our students take theoretical and applied courses that enable them to produce news reports for print, broadcast, cable and web media. We teach them about the law, ethics and principles of journalism and the information that lie at the heart of democratic societies. Our students are encouraged to seek internships with local, regional and national news media, and our students have worked for organizations ranging from the Arizona Daily Star to CNN International.
We are proud to be working in several areas to better equip our students by offering programs such as our broadcast media classes, our focus in International Journalism, and our newly-equipped computer labs for teaching publication layout and design.
Our Distinctions
School graduates have won every major journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and top awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. School graduates are working for top U.S. news media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN. Our graduates specializing in investigative reporting have produced stories that have changed state and national laws and policies. Our faculty have won national teaching awards from the Freedom Forum to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, to state and university teaching honors. The School of Journalism has four top-ten finishes in the last decade in the annual Hearst National News Writing and Photojournalism competition, which involves more than 100 accredited U.S. journalism programs. If you are curious about the sort of things our alumni are up to 'out in the field', you may be interested in our Alumni section.