The course is vocational in approach, declaring an emphasis on reporting and news writing practice.
[11] The college has been named top journalism school in Australia, based on graduates' ratings.
[14][15] Jschool publishes the online newspaper Newsbytes [1], with news, feature stories and reviews in print and multimedia formats.
Recipients include National Nine political editor Laurie Oakes,[17][18] national chief correspondent with The Australian newspaper, Hedley Thomas, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio current affairs journalist Nance Haxton, crime and corruption reporter Bob Bottom,[19] Asia-Pacific Journalism Centre director John Wallace,[20][21] APN Australian Publishing executive editor Peter Owen,[22] former Courier-Mail editor Greg Chamberlin, journalism educator Desley Bartlett and editor of Brisbane's Independent newspaper, Don Gordon-Brown.
(McManus and Harvey were convicted and fined for contempt of court when they refused to reveal confidential sources for their investigative journalism.