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The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference continues to bring in the best of the best. This year is no exception. Luis Alberto Urrea, Richard Rhodes and Isabel Wilkerson are drawing big crowds. Want to be part of one? Read more.

Undergrad Students Get Experience

Communicating excellence
Ashley Salazar

From blogger to published author, Mayborn student and young mother Ashley Salazar knows how to connect with her readers. 

Our Alumni Achieve Their Dreams

Writing their own futures
Nedal Ahmed

Nedal Ahmed didn’t expect to receive the e-mail that announced she received a prestigious award from the American Advertising Federation that includes a trip to the Big Apple.

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Internships

Our internship program maintains strong ties with industry leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, the fourth largest media market in the country. This provides excellent networking and job opportunities at some of the nation's top newspapers, magazines, publishing companies, television and radio stations, web companies, and advertising and public relations agencies.

Mayborn Benefits

Students receive hands-on opportunities to use state-of-the-art video/audio technology, computers and software in our classrooms and labs. Our students gain real-world experience creating campaigns and projects for advertising and public relations clients. They produce content for broadcast, via Denton Community Television. They write material for magazines like the MAYBORN magazine. Students publish in the NT Daily newspaper and write online at NTNewsnet.com and DentonLive.com.

Success Starts Here

Pulitzer winners, acclaimed faculty, national accreditation, dynamic curriculum, social media experts, the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction conference & your path into the future of journalism.