Joe Mahr, BSJ '94, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
John Kaplan, BSJ '82, MS '98, winner of 1992 Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize for "Age 21 in America," a photo essay of the lives of young adults
Clarence Page, BSJ '69 and HON '93, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist for The Chicago Tribune
Steve Hymon, BSC '88, Los Angeles Times staff writer, was part of a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for a series of articles about problems at an inner-city hospital
Joanne Utley-Baksh, BSJ '79, winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of TWA Flight 800 crash (Newsday)
Durell Hall, BFA '78, winner of 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Neal Pattison, BSJ '74, supervising editor of Albuquerque Tribune series on Americans unwittingly used for government radiation experiments that won 1994 Pulitzer Prize
There are many ways to get the news these days, and Americans spend more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role in news consumption, and they seem to be more than making up for modest declines in the audience for traditional platforms. As a result,
the average time Americans spend with the news on a given day is as high as it was in the mid-1990s, when audiences for traditional news sources were much larger;
instead of replacing traditional news platforms, Americans are increasingly integrating new technologies into their news consumption habits;
more than a third (36%) of Americans say they got news from both digital and traditional sources yesterday, just shy of the number who relied solely on traditional sources (39%); and
only 9% of Americans got news through the internet and mobile technology without also using traditional sources.
Why Ohio University?
Journalism is a profession that incorporates knowledge from various disciplines, as well as critical thinking and practical application skills.
Students in OHIO's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism are positioned to learn how to prepare and present news and information in a changing media landscape.
A journalism degree also provides key verbal and written skills, an analytic mindset and inquisitive nature necessary to be successful in a variety of professions.
Great alumni
With several thousand journalism alumni across the country, you'll have a strong network of Bobcat contacts and mentors working in and outside of the specific sequence areas offered in our curriculum.
Watch videos of some notable journalism alumni.
Hands-on experience
The JSchool recognizes the importance of students gaining media experience while working toward their degrees.
Spending all four years of undergraduate study as a journalism major means you can graduate with four years of experience.
Global connections and opportunities
Students in the JSchool can participate in innovative global programs through its Institute for International Journalism, which offers international internship experiences as well as other study abroad programs.
The OHIO-Leipzig European Center (OLEC) program in 2010 resulted in this documentary about converting coal mines in the former East Germany to recreational lakes.
In a communication college designated as "Center of Excellence"
As a student in the JSchool you will benefit from being in the Scripps College of Communication, recently designated by Ohio's Board of Regents as a "Center of Excellence" in the state of Ohio.
Being in the Scripps College of Communication provides you access to communication-specific Residential Learning Community programs for our first-year students, as well as hands-on student media programs across the spectrum of communication industries.
Great faculty
The JSchool's faculty have the ideal blend of professional journalism experience and advanced degrees.
We are committed educators, with strong classroom skills.
We're also scholars, adding knowledge to the broad field of journalism.
And we advise our students, which means that every journalism student has a faculty member who she or he meets with to discuss curricular and professional matters.
Great classmates, nationally recognized professional organizations
Because of the reputation of the JSchool, we are able to ensure that you will have exceptional classmates.
In journalism classes, you'll often be working on team projects.
Collaborating with smart, motivated students will make you better.
Which is why our student organizations routinely win national recognition for their work.
Most recently, our Society of Professional Journalists chapter won best-in-the-nation honors.
Other groups include Public Relations Student Society of America, Radio Television Digital News Association, Ad Club, Association of Women in Communication, Black Student Communication Caucus, and Students for Global Media and Diversity. Read more about these organizations.
Accreditation (it matters!)
As a program accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,
we keep the size of skills courses at a student-teacher ratio that optimizes learning conditions for students.
Accreditation ensures the quality of our faculty, facilities, as well as curriculum.
Great facilities that keep getting better
Knowing how to use the latest technology is important in any journalism career.
The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism is committed to equipping its facilities with state-of-the-art technology.
A new home for the Scripps College of Communication, the Schoonover Center, is scheduled to open in 2012, providing additional resources for journalism students at Ohio University.
iPhone app, RSS, Twitter
We use the latest technology to communicate news and information to our students and alumni, to underscore the quality of our students and our program as well as to demonstrate how these technologies can be used to communicate news and information.
The JSchool was the first journalism program in the world to develop an iPhone app that provides information about our program (named "JSCHOOL"). Utilizing the app, as well as our website, Twitter, and multiple RSS feeds, we strive to use every means possible to provide news-on-demand about the JSchool, internship and job listings, as well as faculty and student blogs.
At a price that's right
While the cost of higher education is going up, the cost of OHIO compared to other top jschools shows that we are a tremendous value. The charts below are based on figures from the College Board website, which provides comparative data for colleges across the country. See OHIO's website on fees for additional information about the costs at OHIO.
The chart to the left shows the dollars saved over a four-year period when Ohio students stay close to home.
Non-Ohio students also can save a lot when comparing OHIO's out-of-state tuition rates.
*A Pew study on media consumption points out that as of 2008, seven in 10 Americans (71%) still started their day by getting news.
And eight in ten still get news at some point in the day.
Notable internships and scholarships
Alex Stuckey (Statehouse News Bureau Fellowship, 2011; Pulliam Fellowship, 2012)
Tristan Navera (Statehouse News Bureau Fellowship, 2011)
Pam Engel (Semester in Washington, 2011)
Adam Liebendorfer (Wilhelm Foreign Correspondence Scholarship for Washington Post in Colombia, 2011)
There are many ways to get the news these days, and Americans spend more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role in news consumption, and they seem to be more than making up for modest declines in the audience for traditional platforms. As a result,
Journalism is a profession that incorporates knowledge from various disciplines, as well as critical thinking and practical application skills.
Students in OHIO's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism are positioned to learn how to prepare and present news and information in a changing media landscape.
A journalism degree also provides key verbal and written skills, an analytic mindset and inquisitive nature necessary to be successful in a variety of professions.
The JSchool recognizes the importance of students gaining media experience while working toward their degrees.
Spending all four years of undergraduate study as a journalism major means you can graduate with four years of experience.
As a student in the JSchool you will benefit from being in the Scripps College of Communication, recently designated by Ohio's Board of Regents as a "Center of Excellence" in the state of Ohio.
Being in the Scripps College of Communication provides you access to communication-specific Residential Learning Community programs for our first-year students, as well as hands-on student media programs across the spectrum of communication industries.
Because of the reputation of the JSchool, we are able to ensure that you will have exceptional classmates.
In journalism classes, you'll often be working on team projects.
Collaborating with smart, motivated students will make you better.
Which is why our student organizations routinely win national recognition for their work.
Most recently, our Society of Professional Journalists chapter won best-in-the-nation honors.
Other groups include Public Relations Student Society of America, Radio Television Digital News Association, Ad Club, Association of Women in Communication, Black Student Communication Caucus, and Students for Global Media and Diversity. Read more about these organizations.
Knowing how to use the latest technology is important in any journalism career.
The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism is committed to equipping its facilities with state-of-the-art technology.
A new home for the Scripps College of Communication, the Schoonover Center, is scheduled to open in 2012, providing additional resources for journalism students at Ohio University.
We use the latest technology to communicate news and information to our students and alumni, to underscore the quality of our students and our program as well as to demonstrate how these technologies can be used to communicate news and information.
The JSchool was the first journalism program in the world to develop an iPhone app that provides information about our program (named "JSCHOOL"). Utilizing the app, as well as our website, Twitter, and multiple RSS feeds, we strive to use every means possible to provide news-on-demand about the JSchool, internship and job listings, as well as faculty and student blogs.
