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Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Type Public
Established 1947
Dean Lucy Dalglish
Location College Park, Maryland, United States
Campus Suburban
Website http://www.merrill.umd.edu/

Coordinates: 38°59′12.8″N 76°56′53.5″W / 38.986889°N 76.948194°W / 38.986889; -76.948194

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is a journalism school located at the University of Maryland, College Park. The college was founded in 1947 and was named after newspaper editor Philip Merrill in 2001. 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.

A Washington Post recruiter has said the college is one of the nation's best journalism schools.

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), 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.


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