University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Murphy Hall opened in 1940 and has been used to house the University of Minnesota's Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication (HSJMC) since that time.

[3] Journalism, advertising and public relations courses are currently taught in the hall at the undergraduate, graduate and doctorate levels.

SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 on the Northrop Mall area of the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus.

The original building had four floors, housed multiple laboratories and was the home of the Minnesota Daily, the Ski-U-Mah, the Gopher and the Literary Review.

Before becoming an official department, journalism classes were offered occasionally on the St. Paul campus through the agriculture school.

[4] Floor plans for the original Murphy Hall called for advertising, radio, typography, editing and reporting laboratories, as well as an auditorium, a seminar room and a museum.

William Murphy, a former publisher of the Star Tribune newspaper, left an interest-collecting fund for the soon-to-be-established department in 1918, citing a desire toward “the establishing and maintaining of a course of instruction in journalism.”[4] Twenty-two years later, the gift paid for 55 percent of construction costs.

Murphy Hall underwent its first substantial update at the end of the 20th century, when most of the building's interior was gutted and renovated.

The redesigned basement now features the Eric Sevareid Library, named after the former CBS broadcast journalist and SJMC alum (B.A.

The library features a selection of magazines and newspapers from across the country, trade-related journals and books, study areas and eight computers for student use.