[1] The Yellow Jacket features news on campus and community news, student opinion, coverage of the Presidents' Athletic Conference sports teams, and other topics of student or faculty interest.

The Yellow Jacket publishes weekly during the academic year in print[2] and online.

The Yellow Jacket is a member of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and is affiliated with the Waynesburg University student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

The student staff of the Yellow Jacket has been recognized with over three dozen awards by the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence competition and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association.

[4][5][6][7] In 2016, a team of student writers—Kimmi Baston, Anthony Conn, Teghan Simonton, and Mattie Winowitch—were named by SPJ as the National Winner in the In-Depth Reporting Category[8] for a series on opioid abuse in Southwestern Pennsylvania.