Philip Merrill College of Journalism

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Philip Merrill College of Journalism
TypePublic
Established1947
Parent institution
University of Maryland, College Park
DeanRafael Lorente
Location
College Park
,
Maryland
,
United States
CampusSuburban
Websitewww.merrill.umd.edu

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is a journalism school located at the University of Maryland, College Park. The college was founded in 1947[1] and was named after newspaper editor Philip Merrill in 2001.[2] The school has about 550 undergraduates and 70 graduate students enrolled. The school awards B.A., M.A., M.J. and Ph.D. degrees in journalism. Undergraduates can focus on broadcast or multi-platform journalism.[citation needed]

The university's student newspaper, The Diamondback, is not affiliated with the school. However, the school provides opportunities for students to publish work with the Capital News Service (Maryland),[3] a wire service serving print, broadcast and online media in the Washington, D.C. region and Maryland Newsline, a live half-hour three-day-per-week news broadcast (during the fall and spring semesters) that reaches more than 500,000 households in the greater Washington metropolitan area. The newscast is now streamed via YouTube in HD.[4]

The three college-sponsored student news outlets—the nightly television show, online news magazine, and weekly radio show—have all been named the best in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists in the last few years.[citation needed]

The school is home to the National Association of Black Journalists, the largest organization of journalists of color in the U.S. From 1987 to 2015, the university published American Journalism Review, a magazine covering print, television, radio and online media; in 2013 AJR became an online-only publication, and in 2015, the college announced that it was terminating the journal.[5][6]

In 2018, the Scripps Howard Foundation established the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.[7]

  1. ^ "College of Journalism records > ArchivesUM". digital.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  2. ^ "About Merrill". University of Maryland. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  3. ^ "CNS Maryland | Philip Merrill College of Journalism". cnsmaryland.org. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  4. ^ "Maryland Newsline | Capital News Service's Daily Newscast". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  5. ^ Bhatia, Gurman (2015-07-31). "American Journalism Review to cease publication". Poynter. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  6. ^ Balakrishnan, Anita (2015-08-03). "'American Journalism Review' ends online publishing". USA Today. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  7. ^ "Scripps Howard Foundation establishes Howard Centers for investigative journalism". The E.W. Scripps Company (Press release). PR Newswire. 6 Aug 2018.