J-School senior Audrey Thibert recently received an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award for her dedication to international reporting. This award is given to young journalists to gain experience in overseas reporting and will provide funding to …
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New Faculty Q&A with Jing Wang
Q&A with Jing Wang, incoming assistant professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Media. Jing will be joining the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Fall 2023. Hometown: Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China I come from Zhejiang Province in …
Inclusion Committee Strives to Create Equitable and Diverse Space for Students
In the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, students, faculty and staff are collaborating on efforts surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion. Following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department in May 2020, …
SJMC Faculty and Students Present Research, Receive Awards at 2021 AEJMC Conference
From August 4-7, 2021, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) will hold its 104th annual conference. The virtual event features research presentations, panel discussion and more from some of the world’s …
For Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno (MA’20), Pandemic Inspires Award-Winning Journalism
When Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno was starting out as a reporter in Costa Rica, a renowned journalist at a competition dismissed her by saying the kind of journalism she wanted to do didn’t exist there. But …
In On Wisconsin Magazine: Our man in Berlin
As an American journalist in Germany, Louis Lochner told the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.
Three SJMC Faculty Win Prestigious International Awards
Three School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty members were honored at the May 2017 International Communication Association conference in San Diego.