The Mayborn School of Journalism is an ACEJMC-accredited school with Texas’s only accredited journalism master’s program. We are located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, in the fifth largest media market in the country. We enroll approximately 900 undergraduate and graduate students. UNT is categorized as an R1 (Very High Research Activity) institution by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education.
Graduates from our program work across the country, including in top-tier markets such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and others. Our alumni have won Cannes Lions (including the Cannes Grand Prix for Good), One Show Pencils, Addys, and other advertising awards. Our students receive exceptional preparation for the industry as they engage in a multitude of media and hands-on professional experiences, including our student-managed ad agency (SWOOP), PR agency (AGENZ PR), and NSAC team (Gravitas). We offer study abroad programs in the United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, and Mexico. Our faculty have diverse interests and we are proud of the School’s partnerships both on campus and with the external industries we serve.

UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.

The Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas invites applications for a Lecturer to begin in Fall 2024. The successful candidate will have expertise in media buying and planning with an emphasis on new/digital/social/programmatic media buying and analytics.
The person in this position will a teach a 4-4 class load in our advertising sequence. An important responsibility will be to advise the Ad Team, Gravitas, which participates in National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) each year. As such, this position allows extensive hands-on experience working alongside our talented students in not just a teaching role, but in mentorship and coaching roles as well.