Tag: School of Journalism and Mass Communication

J-School Senior Audrey Thibert receives 2024 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award for International Reporting

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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 allow her to pursue an international reporting project in the coming months. “I think going into international reporting can be …

New Faculty Q&A with Jing Wang

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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 Southeast China. My hometown is called Ningbo, literally meaning “calm waves.” From its name, you can probably tell it’s a …

Inclusion Committee Strives to Create Equitable and Diverse Space for Students

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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, the SJMC “vowed to continue studying and working to change the structural inequalities that vex our university, our communities and …

SJMC Faculty and Students Present Research, Receive Awards at 2021 AEJMC Conference

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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 top communications scholars, including faculty and graduate students from UW–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. On Wednesday, Professor Kathleen …

For Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno (MA’20), Pandemic Inspires Award-Winning Journalism

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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 years later, she has shown it does exist — in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University …

In On Wisconsin Magazine: Our man in Berlin

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As an American journalist in Germany, Louis Lochner told the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. 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

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Three School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty members were honored at the May 2017 International Communication Association conference in San Diego. Three School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty members were honored at the May 2017 International Communication Association conference in San Diego.