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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.

Grad Students Master Their Craft

With real world experience
Mike Mezeul

Dirt, rocks and jagged debris swirl up, off the dusty ground and into the increasingly intense gusts of wind in Chickasha, Oklahoma. While most are scattering away from the forming tornado, Mike Mezeul calmly slings his black camera strap over his right shoulder and heads straight towards it.

Our Alumni Achieve Their Dreams

Writing their own futures
Trent Walters

Trent Walters (’97 B.A.) started his advertising career working at The North Texas Daily. Now the UNT graduate is a brand manager at The Richards Group, the nation’s largest independent branding agency.

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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.