The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is a

journalism school A journalism school is a school or department, usually part of an established university, where journalists are trained. 'J-School' is an increasingly used term for a journalism department at a school or college. Journalists in most parts of the ...

located at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

. The college was founded in 1947 and was named after

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editor Philip Merrill in 2001. The school has about 550

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and 70

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enrolled. The school awards B.A.,

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, M.J. and Ph.D. degrees in

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. Undergraduates can focus on broadcast or multi-platform journalism. A ''Washington Post'' recruiter has said the college is one of the nation's best journalism schools. The university's student

, ''

The Diamondback ''The Diamondback'' is an independent student newspaper associated with the University of Maryland, College Park. It began in 1910 as ''The Triangle'' and became known as ''The Diamondback'' in 1921. Now a weekly online journal, ''The Diamondback ...

'', is not affiliated with the school. However, the school provides opportunities for students to publish work with the

Capital News Service (Maryland) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a news wire affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park. Facilitating student reporting Operated by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, Capital News Service provid ...

, 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. 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

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in the last few years. The school is home to the

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, the largest organization of journalists of color in the U.S. From 1987 to 2015, the university published the

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, 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.

Faculty

The school's faculty has won a combined 17 Pulitzer Prizes and Peabody Awards. The

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winners include Knight Chair Dana Priest (''The Washington Post''),

Jon Franklin Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Deborah Nelson Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer prize-winning freelance journalist at Reuters and the Associate Professor of Investigative Reporting at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Nelson earned her B.S. in Journalism from N ...

(''The Seattle Times''). Marty Kaiser, who led the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to three Pulitzer Prizes while editor there from 1997 to 2015, is the first managing editor of the college's student-powered Capital News Service. Kathy Best, who led the Seattle Times staff to two Pulitzer Prizes as executive editor and managing editor for digital news, is the director of Merrill's award-winning Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. Emmy Award winners include Eaton Broadcast Chair Mark Feldstein, Associate Professor Ron Yaros and Lecturer Tom Bettag. Other notable faculty members: Mark Hyman, a veteran journalist, professor, author and lawyer who directs The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism as the college's inaugural George Solomon Chair in Sports Journalism; and ESPN's Around the Horn panelist and Washington Post columnist

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Building

The school was formerly housed in the Journalism building located next to McKeldin Library; the building was the smallest on campus to be home to a college. Most of the broadcast facilities, including the ''Maryland Newsline'' studio, are located in nearby Tawes Hall. The college moved into a new journalism building, the John S. and James L. Knight Hall, on January 4, 2010.

Alumni

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'' anchor (left the university one course short of completing his degree requirements) *

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to uncover the

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, attended the school but did not graduate *Gary Graves,

Sportswriter *

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Philip Merrill College Of Journalism Journalism schools in the United States University of Maryland, College Park Educational institutions established in 1947 1947 establishments in Maryland

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