The Threefold Advocate
JBU's Student Newspaper
The Threefold Advocate is the award-winning student newspaper at John Brown University.
The 10-page weekly broadsheet is published 24 times each school year. The news and advertising are produced for practicum credit by Journalism and Public Relations majors and minors. Other JBU students may assist as designers, columnists, editorial cartoonists and photographers. The student editors and staff make all the editorial and production decisions under the auspices of a faculty adviser.
Recent Awards:
- The Advocate won the General Excellence award from the Arkansas College Media Association in the 2007-2008 school year.
- Arkansas State University was second and the University of Arkansas third among the 11 state schools competing.
- The Advocate had won two seconds and a third in General Excellence in the preceding four years.
- In the past two years the paper has also won the ACMA Photographer of the Year award twice and Editor of the Year and Designer of the Year awards once.
- On the national level, the Advocate has won awards in overall excellence in the past two years from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Evangelical Press Association.