Department of Journalism Search

The Department of Journalism in the School of Communication and Theater at Temple University announces an opening for a tenure-track or tenured-senior scholar and teacher with professional experience and/or research interests related to urban journalism and/or convergence – the focus of the new reinvigorated department. Rank is open.  Teaching areas associated with this position include basic and advanced reporting, electronic information gathering (EIG), computer-assisted research and reporting (CARR), or editing and Web communication.

Depending on areas of research and/or professional interests, the successful candidate may have the opportunity to teach in the School’s Ph.D. program and the department’s professional Master of Journalism program. A Ph.D. is recommended.

The Department of Journalism is an ACEJMC-accredited program located in the nation’s vibrant, fourth-largest media market. The department offers specialties in news-editorial, magazine, broadcast journalism, and photography for the mass media. The department has recently established a Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL) to serve as the capstone experience. MURL is located in dedicated, state-of-the art facilities on the University’s downtown campus. The department’s 11 full-time faculty include former professionals and nationally known research scholars.

Review of applications begins Sept. 1, 2004. A letter of application, current CV, and a list of references should be sent to:

Professor Linn Washington, Search Committee
Department of Journalism
316 Annenberg Hall
School of Communication and Theater
2020 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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“A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.”  
            -Henry Brooks Adams (1907)

Karen M. Turner
Director, Broadcast Journalism sequence
Department of Journalism
2020 N. 13th Street
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.8386 (voicemail)/ 215.204.1974 (fax)
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