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Alumnus Justin Breen (BS '99, journalism), the founder/CEO of BrEpic Communications LLC, won a Golden Trumpet award from the Publicity Club of Chicago at the 60th annual Golden Trumpet Awards competition on June 6.
The competition, held at Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton, featured entries from the… Read More
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Illinois alumnus Sean Evans is the host of the viral celebrity interview show Hot Ones, with 5.9 million subscribers and counting. It also could be argued that he's a professional consumer of violently spicy chicken wings, which isn't at all what he expected to do with his broadcast journalism… Read More
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Five Department of Journalism students have earned Dow Jones News Fund internships for the coming summer.
Dow awarded 79 paid internships in data, digital and business journalism, as well as multiplatform editing, at news organizations across the country this summer.
Interns attend one-week… Read More
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The College of Media welcomed back alumna Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton (BS '87, broadcast journalism) on April 25. She visited a journalism class taught by lecturer John Paul, whose class she took in 1985. Journalism students Elizabeth Sayasane (left) and Riley McNulty (right)… Read More
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We are sad to learn about the passing of recent journalism alumnus Daniel Escalona, who earned both his bachelor's (BS '17) and master's (MS '18) with us. He died on April 12 due to complications from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Escalona was "one of the best students I've ever had," said Professor… Read More
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Congratulations to Nikki Usher, associate professor of journalism, for being named an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020.
Usher's focus will be on The Where of News, "which considers the role of professional journalism in fomenting the place-based… Read More
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Three journalism alumni participated in "Muslims in Media: Influence of Minorities in Storytelling and Journalism," a panel discussion as part of the I Heart Halal festival in Chicago. The moderator was Shahzmeen Hussain (BS ’17) who works at Explore Their Stories, Inc., a filmmaking company. Two… Read More
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Congratulations to Taylor Rooks (BS '14, journalism) on her new Bleacher Report series, Take It There With Taylor Rooks. Watch her video interview with Ebony: https://www.ebony.com/exclusive/taylor-rooks-new-bleacher-report-series/ She said the series is a “full interview show where you get a… Read More
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The Department of Journalism will honor graduate and undergraduate students judged to have reported and written the best feature articles in the last year. Articles will be judged on depth and texture of… Read More
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By Molly Leahy, Communications and Marketing InternIn honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and University of Illinois journalism graduate Roger Ebert, three undergraduate students have been named as this year’s Roger Ebert Fellows. In addition to a stipend, the fellows will be… Read More
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see christopher capozziello’s film, art, and lectures in february
By Holly Rushakoff
It starts with a question—why do some suffer and others do not? When Christopher Capozziello is curious about people, he wants to understand where they’re coming from. And he’s often drawn to the fringe.
As a… Read More
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In Spring 2019, photojournalist Christopher Capozziello, whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide, will be on the Illinois campus for an eight-week George A. Miller visiting artist residency. He has done extensive photographic work on breast cancer, heroin addiction, racism, cerebral… Read More
Bean (BS ’66, journalism) receives California Press Foundation’s Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award
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Gerald A. “Jerry” Bean, a journalism alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is this year’s recipient of the California Press Foundation’s Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award. Bean has been in the newspaper business since 1957. Jerry was a part-time sports reporter and printer’… Read More
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In an introduction to a Mad magazine movie parody issue in 1998, Roger Ebert, a journalism alumnus from the University of Illinois, wrote that Mad had broadened his horizons and opened his mind to the realities of movie-making:
“Mad’s parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin—of the… Read More
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The Journalism Department at the University of Illinois is deeply saddened to learn of the passing last week of distinguished alumni John Foreman who served as prize-winning reporter, editor and publisher at The News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois.Foreman, 65 was a long-time supporter of the… Read More
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“The Eye of Overtown,” an award winning short film by Assistant Professor of Journalism Charles “Stretch” Ledford, was screened at the "Lights, Camera, 305” film festival in Miami, Florida, on Nov. 9, 2017. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation sponsored the festival in conjunction with the… Read More
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A new scholarship in the Department of Journalism will honor journalism alum Dave Shaul, long-time WCIA news director. Lecturer John Paul spoke with WCIA’s Jennifer Jensen about Shaul’s legacy. See the story here. Donate to the fund here.