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Jacqueline "Jackie" Jones is Dean of the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University.

A veteran newswoman, Jones has worked in a variety of capacities in newsrooms around the country, including the (Baltimore) Evening Sun, Detroit Free Press, New York Newsday, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Washington Post. While at New York Newsday, she was a member of the newsroom team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Spot News Coverage.

Jones has served on the board of directors of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and represented the NABJ on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for more than 25 years. She has been a senior lecturer at Penn State University and an adjunct professor at several institutions, including New York, Wayne State, and Howard Universities.

Jones joined MSU in 2012, serving as a lecturer, associate professor, chair of the Department of Multimedia Journalism, and assistant dean before her appointment as SGJC dean in 2021.

During her tenure, students and recent alumni have won Pulitzer Prizes, regional Emmy Awards, Robert F. Kennedy (journalism) Courage Awards and participated in prestigious training programs at MIT, the Andscape Rhoden Fellows program at ESPN, the Volkswagen-sponsored Driving Force internship, and have been accepted to prestigious journalism master’s programs at Columbia. New York, Syracuse Universities, as well as City University of New York. Graduates are working at The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Sports, ESPN, the SOLVE advertising agency in Minneapolis, and in Global Brands Communications for Hilton. In 2026, teams of faculty and students have covered the FIFA World Cup, and participated in a landmark underwater research and storytelling at the site of a submerged slave ship wreck. The School’s twice-Emmy nominated Center for New Media and Strategic Initiatives documentary unit, won a regional Emmy in 2025 and was nominated again in 2026.

Research Interests:

Ethics, student assessment, international journalism

Teaching Interests:

International and political reporting, ethics