新闻与传播学院成立于2005年，是辽宁省卓越新闻传播人才教育培养工程共建单位，也是东北唯一的国际新闻传播卓越人才培养基地，人文、创意、国际、数字四大特色鲜明。学院致力于打造国际新闻传播的东北重镇。
我国新闻传播学界的泰斗方汉奇先生为学院题写了院名。
学院依托外国语大学的优势，响应“加强国际传播能力建设，增强国际话语权”的号召，以“求是 创新 博闻 笃行”为院训，学院致力于培养具有全球视野、批判精神、人文底蕴，立足当下、立足现实、立足国家发展的复合型、国际型、应用型的新闻传播人才。
学院设有新闻学本科专业，突出国际新闻人才培养，重英语，重实践。培养学生掌握国际新闻专业的理论知识和专业知识；精通英语，四年英语学习不断线；既熟悉我国的对外宣传报道方针、政策，又了解西方新闻报道形式，能熟练运用中、英文进行各媒体的国际新闻编、播、采、写工作。2018年，在我校发布的第三方评估人才培养质量报告中，新闻学专业获评2013-2017届本科毕业生就业竞争力指数最高的专业、本科毕业生人才培养综合指数最高的专业。
学院设有传播学本科专业，突出国际创意传播人才培养，重英语，重实践。培养学生具有家国情怀，具备较高跨文化传播力、较强的外语能力、开阔的国际视野、与时俱进的媒体运用能力、适应媒体深度融合和行业创新发展，能够讲好中国故事、传播中国声音的国际传播人才。
学院设有中华文化国际传播二级学科硕士学位授权点，这是我国目前首次在这一方向特设学科。突出中华文化国际传播领域的复合型、创新型高级专业人才培养，重英语，重实践。学生熟悉中华文化国际传播的理论知识和专业知识，汉语和中国文化知识扎实、熟悉传播学相关知识与理论、英语精通、跨文化交际能力强。
学院自2020年起设有新闻学二学位专业，突出国际新闻传播人才培养，重基础，重实践。通过对非新闻学专业本科生按照新闻学专业的要求进行系统而严格的培养，使学生比较系统地掌握新闻传播学的基本理论、基本知识和基本技能，具有良好的综合素质，富有创新精神、具备交叉学科知识理论背景、综合实践能力和全媒体业务技能，能够适应国家与地方经济和社会发展，在驻外新闻传媒机构、国际组织、外交宣传等部门从事新闻传播工作的复合型国际化的应用型人才。
学院拥有一支素质高、业务强、学术精的师资队伍，另聘有新华社、耶鲁大学等学识精湛、经验丰富的业界专家、知名教授等兼职教师20余人。学院教学成果丰硕，曾获辽宁省优秀教学团队称号，在连续三届全校青年教师教学大赛中，本院教师均荣获非外语组一等奖。近年来，本院教师承担国家社科重大项目等一批教学科研项目。在《新闻与传播研究》、《人民日报》等学术期刊发表论文300余篇，在国家级出版社出版专著、教材40余部。学院主办的中华文化海外传播大连论坛已经在国内外产生较大影响。
校级研究机构中华文化海外传播研究中心设在我院，是国内领先的研究机构，中心主办的《中华文化海外传播研究》成为我国中华文化海外传播领域唯一的学术集刊。
学院与美国、英国、澳大利亚、捷克、加拿大、港台等国家和地区的大学建立联合培养，在出国深造、短期学习、师生互访等方面建立了良好的交流机制。学院还设有东北一流的省级新闻传播学实验教学示范中心、省级虚拟仿真实验教学中心和一流的实习实训基地，建设了东北高校首家融媒体实验平台、首家智能媒体实验平台。
建院以来，研究生毕业生就业率保持在100%；本科生毕业生就业率保持在96%以上。毕业生质量受到社会的高度评价，优秀毕业生在中国新闻社、新华社、路透社、英国《金融时报》、中国日报社、浙江大学、苏州大学、华东师范大学、上海外国语大学、美国威斯康辛大学、华为、新浪、百度等各大媒体、高校和企事业单位工作。越来越多的新闻与传播学子正走向世界，传递中华文明，传播中国声音。
（数据截止至2020年8月）
Founded in 2005, the School of Journalism and Communication featuring humanities, creativity, global vision, and digital education, has been designated the provincial base for cultivation of outstanding talents in journalism and communication in Liaoning as well as the only base for cultivation of outstanding talents in international journalism and communication in Northeast China, and the School are also committed to the construction of a vital base for international journalism and communication in Northeast China.
The School name has been inscribed by Fang Hanqi who is leading authority in the field of journalism and communication in China.
Relying on DUFL’s strength in foreign language teaching, the School, whose motto is “truth-seeking, creativity, knowledgeableness and practice”, is committed to nurturing versatile, global and practical talents with global vision, critical thinking and humanistic literacy in journalism and communication in accordance with the current social development of China and the national strategy “enhancing the capability of international communication and international discourse power”.
The School now offers undergraduate program in journalism, which is noteworthy for its emphasis on international journalism with intensive English instruction and journalism practice. The program will equip students with theoretical and professional knowledge in international journalism, empower students with English proficiency through four-year English study, and assist students in getting familiar with Chinese policies in international communication as well as western journalism in order that by means of all media students become competent for editing, hosting, interviewing and writing in both Chinese and English in international journalism. In the undergraduate education report, which was assessed by a third party and published by DUFL in 2018, journalism major has been on top of both Undergraduate Employability Rankings and the Overall Index of Undergraduate Education from class of 2013 to class of 2017.
The School also offers undergraduate program in communication which is noteworthy for its emphasis on international creative communication with intensive English instruction and practice. This program aims at cultivating students’ patriotism, intercultural communication skills, English proficiency and global vision, and is also devoted to harnessing student’s skills of using the latest media, and increasing their adaptability to media integration and creative development of media industry in order that students become talents in international communication who are competent in telling Chinese story well and spreading Chinese voice.
The School has initiated the first master’s degree program in International Communication of Chinese Culture in the second-level disciplines in China. This program aims at the cultivation of versatile and creative talents in International Communication of Chinese Culture through intensive English instruction and practice. Through this program, students will have a good grasp of theoretical and professional knowledge in the discipline, lay a solid foundation in both Chinese and Chinese culture, become familiar with relevant knowledge and theory in communication and develop proficiency in both English and intercultural communication.
From 2020, the School begins to offer a minor program in journalism which is noteworthy for its emphasis on international journalism and communication as well as basic instruction and intensive practice. In compliance with the requirements of journalism majors, this program aims at empowering non-journalism majors with basic theory, knowledge and skills in journalism and communication through systematic and rigorous cultivation. The program is also devoted to nurturing versatile, global and practical talents with all-round qualities, creative spirit, interdisciplinary knowledge and theory, comprehensive and all-media working skills who can work in the field of journalism and communication in overseas media institutions, international organizations, institutions of foreign affairs and publicity to contribute to national and regional social and economic development.
The School boasts a team of faculty members with outstanding qualities, professional competence, and academic achievement. Also, we have more than twenty professional experts and renowned professors with exceptional academic achievement and rich experience from Xinhua News Agency, Yale University, etc., working in our school as part-time faculty. The School has reaped fruitful results in teaching and has been honored with the title of Provincial Excellent Teaching Team in Liaoning. Besides, teachers in our school have won the first prizes for three consecutive years in the group consisting of non-foreign language teachers in DUFL’s Young Teachers Teaching Contest. In recent years, the School has undertaken a series of teaching and academic research projects led by the major project of National Social Science Fund, and has published more than 300 research articles in academic journals such as Journalism and Communication Study and People’s Daily, as well as more than 40 academic books and textbooks. “The Chinese Culture Overseas Communication—Dalian Forum” hosted by our school has also gained great influence at home and abroad.
DUFL’s academic institution—Research Center of Chinese Culture Overseas Communication, a leading one in China, is owned by the School. The Center’s journal Chinese Culture Overseas Communication is the only Monographic Series in the field of Overseas Communication of Chinese Culture in China.
The School also collaborates with universities from countries and regions such as USA, UK, Australia, Czech, Canada, Hong Kong China, and Taiwan China in joint cultivation, and has established cooperative mechanism with those overseas counterparts through overseas study, short-period exchange, exchange visits of teachers and students, etc. The School has set up Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for journalism and communication which is deemed as first-class in Northeast China, Provincial Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, first-class Vocational Practice and Training Base, and the first Converged Media Lab and Intelligent Media Lab in universities of Northeast China.
Since the establishment of the School, postgraduate employment rate has remained steady at 100%, while undergraduate employment rate has been above 96%. The quality of graduates from our school has been highly recognized and praised by employers, and outstanding graduates are working in large media organizations, universities, public institutions and enterprises such as China News Service, Xinhua News Agency, Reuters, UK’s Financial Times, China Daily, Zhejiang University, Soochow University, East China Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, University of Wisconsin, Huawei, Sina and Baidu. An increasing number of graduates of journalism and communication are stepping out to the world to publicize Chinese civilization and spread Chinese voice.