Interactive Map | Printable Report (PDF)
Key Findings
The Center for Community News at UVM launched this project to understand the collective experience of the faculty leading news-academic programs at colleges and universities across the country. Based on a review of faculty webpages, LinkedIn and other publicly accessible information, this study presents a snapshot of the professional experience of 212 faculty from the 227 news-academic partnerships in the CCN database.
These are the key findings:
- Most of the faculty leaders (87 percent or 184 people) have professional experience in journalism.
- Of the 184 leaders with journalism experience, they averaged more than 18 years at 710 different national and local news outlets.
- 30 percent of the total faculty surveyed have a PhD.
- 50 percent have a master’s degree.
- 34 percent earned their highest degree in journalism and 25 percent in communications.
- 38 percent of the faculty leaders have tenured status or are on the tenure track.
- 191 leaders have spent an average of 9.6 years at their current institute as faculty.
- The most frequently occurring professional organizations these faculty have worked at are: The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.
- The faculty leading these programs have more than 3,000 years of journalism experience
Methodology
A comprehensive list of U.S. colleges and universities operating between one and five student reporting programs was compiled using a national dataset developed by the Center for Community News (CCN) at the University of Vermont. Researchers examined professional experience, academic experience, time spent in their current institute and their tenure/non-tenure status. Data were extracted from institutional faculty and staff biography pages as well as individual LinkedIn profiles.
You will find a list of the 710 media outlets that surveyed faculty work at here (Google Sheet).
Contact Us
This report was prepared by Sima Bhowmik, Ph.D. Research coordinator at the Center for Community News. For additions or corrections, contact sima.bhowmik@uvm.edu
Interactive Map of Connections
Check out this interactive map of connections among journalism faculty in our network.
