Major in Digital Journalism & Civic Engagement
Become a journalist • Learn to work in multimedia • Change the world
Digital journalism and civic engagement gives you a voice. JBU will prepare you to use it effectively.
In the digital journalism and civic engagement major, you will learn the crafts of writing, reporting, editing,
and producing in both traditional and digital media platforms. At JBU you will learn to integrate your faith with
your calling to journalism in order to ethically and accurately report on critical issues in our world today.
Students and professors share what makes JBU's digital journalism program unique.
Digital Journalism & Civic Engagement at JBU - You'll get to:
Create in Great Spaces
JBU's award-winning student newspaper, The Threefold Advocate, is home to many communication students in the newly remodeled newsroom. The bi-weekly publication develops students in writing, reporting, editing, photography, design, and more.
Apply Your Skills
Students fulfill their internship requirements at global and non-profit organizations, media publications and church communication departments as communication and public relations specialists.
Publish Your Work
Find stories, work under deadlines, plan layouts and publish your work every week in JBU’s award-winning newspaper the Threefold Advocate.
Write in Washington D.C.
Develop your voice, streamline your writing and get hands-on experience through internships at the Washington Journalism Center in Washington D.C. - all for JBU credit.
Alumni Stories
Jenny Fish '13
Jenny is the Connections Manager and Performance Content Writer at VML, an award-winning digital marketing, advertising and transformation agency. “I have John Brown University to thank for helping me develop a strong set of writing skills and the level of experience needed to both land this job and succeed in it. Through many communication, graphic design and marketing classes, excellent professors helped fine-tune my creative instincts in writing, design and strategy. From my very first days on the job, I felt like JBU equipped me to work well and in a way that glorifies God.”
Emerson Ayala Mendoza ’12
Emerson works for the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador as a Development Outreach and Communications Specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “JBU was an excellent starting point for a career in international communications. Combining a solid journalism background, real life experience at the school's media outlets, and emerging technological tools was the most effective approach for the fast-evolving communications landscape of today. I also benefited from the international flavor our school has, gaining a broader perspective of our globalized society and appreciating a multicultural workplace.”
Russell Hixson '12
Russell is the Editorial Specialist at ConstructConnect. He researches, writes, and polishes editorial content for the Journal of Commerce. In addition, he lays out pages and shoots and edits photos and videos. "Working for the student newspaper [the Threefold Advocate] is a raw, dangerously exciting experience for a young writer to have. We [the students] essentially have complete control of the publication making it a huge responsibility but also a lot of fun." Hixon is a reporter for the Skagit Valley Herald in Mount Vernon Wash.
Emily Moberly '04
After graduating in 2004 with a journalism degree, Moberly moved to Honduras to teach English. While there she noticed the extremely limited access her students had to books; and in 2010, she founded Traveling Stories, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing libraries around the world in villages with limited access to books.
