The School of Journalism and Communication places considerable emphasis on building its teaching team and establishes a strong intellectual base for its growth by actively developing its young and middle-aged academic backbone and aggressively introducing outstanding talent. It progressively assembles a competent teaching and research faculty of journalism and communication as a result of the growing discipline base.

Currently, the school has 65 faculty members in total, 47 of them are full-time instructors, comprising 19 professors and 18 associate professors. 79% of the faculty have senior professional titles. 43 of them have a doctoral degree, accounting for 91%. 23 have had overseas academic experiences, and 15 have an interdisciplinary background. Besides, 7 have had industrial work experience. For the postgraduate programs, the school has 49 supervisors for the master’s programs and 13 doctoral supervisors. Additionally, the school places a high value on developing its teaching staff and producing high-level talent. Many excellent teachers work in the our school, one faculty member serves on the Journalism and Communication Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, several national talents, leading personnel of the Guangdong provincial talent plan, the Guangdong special support plan for young talent and school-level talent, and more than 50 executive directors, vice presidents, and chair of various academic societies and research institutes.