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Department of Advertising assistant professor John G. Wirtz delivered the keynote address at the 17th Annual Martha Nelson Lewis Symposium, hosted by the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. The topic of the talk was using social media… Read More
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“Beretta, Jordan, Cassie and Gaitlynn,” a photograph from Assistant Professor of Journalism Charles “Stretch” Ledford’s project, “The Cultural Geography of Firearms,” has been selected for the “Power and Politics” exhibition at the Filter Photo Gallery in Chicago. The image is part of Ledford’s… Read More
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Michelle Nelson, an associate professor in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, is a co-investigator on a collaboration that was awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health.Read the story here.
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“Holy Shakespeare!” Maisie Sparks’ second book, will be released in October of this year by Hachette Book Group (New York), a division of Hachette Livre, the third largest publishing company in the world. Her first book, “151 Things God Can’t Do,” was released in October of last year, and a third… Read More
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ABC7 Chicago has announced that Judy Hsu will take on the 4 p.m. news achor role with the retirement of Linda Yu. Hsu has been with the station since 2001. She will work alongside Rob Elgas beginning November 24.Read the full story here.
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Elaine Quijano of CBS News will moderate the 2016 vice presidential debate. It will take place on Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.Quijano is weekday anchor on CBSN and also anchors the Sunday CBS Weekend News. As a correspondent with CBS News, her reports regularly appear on “… Read More
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Brett Lerner and his father, Rich Pomerantz, used to spend a lot of time watching ESPN. The two joked about Lerner being the next Mike Greenberg. During Lerner’s time at the U of I, he displayed the skill and determination required to make that kind of career possible – even though Lerner wasn’t an… Read More
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The results for the Spring 2016 administration of student ratings of instructors has been announced. Results are based on Instructor and Course Evaluation (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.This list is based on ICES… Read More
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The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising will begin offering an undergraduate minor in public relations starting in the fall 2016 semester. The minor will require a minimum of 18 credits and will consist of three foundational courses about media and public relations and three additional… Read More
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By Ryan WilsonWhen Ros Dumlao was in Northside College Prep High School in Chicago, she watched as her school’s varsity women’s basketball team won the Public League’s Chicago Conference North title and made it to the state Regional Finals. But they did not make it into her school’s student… Read More
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The Institute for Nonprofit News has elected Laura Frank as board chair.Frank is president and general manager of news at Rocky Mountain PBS in Denver. She founded I-News, the nonprofit investigative news organization that merged with Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting in 2013.
She succeeds Brant… Read More
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College of Media Associate Dean for Student Services & Academic Affairs Julian Parrott was a guest at the Journalism Education Association-China inaugural convention at Duke Kunshan University campus outside of Shanghai. JEA-China hosted 63 high school students from across China for 5 days of… Read More
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This spring, WILL launched The 21st — 21st-century radio for the 21st state. The hour-long talk show combines relevant news and conversation with audience engagement through phone calls, social media and other digital channels. The 21st is not only facilitating discussion but also helping listeners… Read More
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A number of faculty and students are participating in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference. AEJMC is a nonprofit organization of more than 3,700 educators, students and practitioners from around the globe. The annual conference features sessions on… Read More
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“Voices of Stagg” a documentary about an educational experiment at A. A. Stagg High School, will premiere on Aug. 2, 2016, 7 p.m. at the school, 8015 W. 111th Street, Palos Hills, Illinois. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.The film was created by… Read More
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Chunfeng Lin, a Ph. D. candidate in the Institute of Communications Research, has received a 2016-17 Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate College at Illinois.These fellowships help students complete the doctoral degree by providing one year of financial support and allowing these… Read More
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NBC 5 in Chicago announced the hiring of Ash-har Quraishi ’97 JOURN, as a general assignment reporter, effective immediately. He most recently was chief Midwest correspondent for Al Jazeera America.
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Award-winning journalist, Steve Osunsami ’93 JOURN, has been nominated for a National Emmy award, in the category Best Story in a Regular Scheduled Newscast, for reporting on the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina.Osunsami is a correspondent for ABC News and is based in Atlanta. He… Read More
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By MaryCate Most, senior in JournalismMy journey to the Smithsonian really started two years ago during my last internship in Washington, D.C. Every day when I would get off of work, I’d walk about an hour through the D.C. sun and humidity just to spend some time roaming through the halls of… Read More
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By Amelia Mugavero, Senior in JournalismI have learned so much in my short time here with KDFW FOX 4 News in Dallas. I started out writing VO's and VO/SOTS and shooting my own stand-up's when I went out with reporters. By my second week, I already had two packages of my own completed. I had been… Read More