Jackie Jones

Jackie Jones the assistant dean for programs and chairperson of the School of Global Journalism & Communication’s Department of Multimedia Journalism, has been a journalist for more than 40 years and a nationally recognized leader in journalism and journalism education for more than a quarter of a century The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has worked in markets all around the country, including as an editor at the Philadelphia Daily News, New York Newsday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Washington Post. For more than 25 years she sat on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC), the world’s largest accrediting body for programs of journalism and mass communications, has been a newsroom consultant and a media career coach, has taught as a senior lecturer at Penn State University and as an adjunct instructor at several journalism programs, including at Howard and New York Universities. Since her arrival at Morgan State, multimedia journalism students have gotten training, internships and jobs with Bloomberg News, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, CBS, NBC, ABC, Yahoo! News, The Baltimore Sun, and The New York Times. She also has launched reporting and faculty exchange partnerships with West Virginia, North Carolina A&T, Howard, Penn State, and Brigham Young Universities, as well as professional partnership programs with the Wall Street Journal and NBC Universal. A journalism graduate of George Washington University, she is a member and former national officer of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and represented the NABJ on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for 25 years and was recently elected to the Accrediting Committee of the ACEJMC.