School of Journalism and Strategic Media

About sjsm

The School of Journalism and Strategic Media is dedicated to excellence in teaching, research and media discourse. Students in our journalism degree programs receive instruction, guidance and access to hands-on experience from our seasoned, award-winning faculty and staff. Areas of study include news editorial and reporting, broadcast, public relations, advertising and digital media.

Center for Ethics in Journalism

This year's distinguished visiting professor of ethics is Steven Holmes - Executive Director of CNN's Offices of Standards and Practices. Learn more about the Center for Ethics in Journalism.

New Student Media

Construction at Kimpel Hall is now complete, and the new Sue Walk Burnett Journalism and Student Media Center is ready for the 2018-2019 school year.

Read all about the grand opening in The Fulbright Review Blog

Spring Special
Courses

Check out these new and/or special topic courses at SJSM to sharpen your skills and round out your next course load!

Alumni Spotlight

Ramona Collins, a 1995 University of Arkansas alumna with a bachelor’s degree in journalism through the advertising/public relations sequence, now serves as the U of A’s Social Media and Digital Communications Manager.

“Ramona was a person in class who was very intelligent, wasn’t afraid to speak her mind, and was very good at asking excellent questions and challenging me in the best possible way as a professor. Ramona had absolutely no qualms about changing with the times and staying on top of things, to the point where she was working for major national firms like Collective Bias.

"It doesn’t matter whether you’re in Northwest Arkansas or New York because she was working for the top firms, which indicates how talented she is. I was delighted when I saw that she’s working for the University of Arkansas now because I think we have an excellent communicator, writer and thinker communicating key information about the university’s brand on social media and other spaces. It’s wonderful to see it come full circle.”
Jan Wicks, Vice Chair of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, speaks on her experience in teaching and observing the career movements of Ramona Collins.

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STATEMENT OF SUPPORT UPDATE (12/4/18):

The faculty at the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media is pleased to learn that journalism students from Har-Ber High School will be able to publish their Oct. 30 article and editorial on the school’s football team that the Springdale School superintendent had ordered taken down. We look forward to engaging in a dialog with Springdale school officials to support quality student journalism.