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We are sad to learn about the passing of Jenny Lenzini (BS '16, journalism), who died on November 15 after a motorcycle accident. She was a reporter at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida.
"Her bright smile and passion for storytelling instantly made her a standout reporter in the Southwest Florida… Read More
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Aaron Navarro (BS '18, journalism) works as a CBS broadcast associate for the 2020 political unit covering House and gubernatorial races. Navarro has been a key player in following the central stories for down-ballot races, from impeachment to coronavirus, and helping with overall 2020 election… Read More
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Michelle G. Lopez (BS '06, journalism) has been named director of content for the Chicago Tribune. She joined the newspaper in 2013, serving as senior digital and design editor at The Mash, the Tribune edition for teens, and as digital editor of RedEye, the tabloid for commuters. Later she was lead… Read More
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David E. McCraw (BS '76, journalism), deputy general counsel of The New York Times, has been selected as a 2020 Hugh M. Hefner Foundation First Amendment Awardee. The late Hefner was also a University of Illinois alumnus.
The First Amendment Awards recognize individuals who have taken outstanding… Read More
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Two journalism alumni, Joey Gelman (BS '16) and Dan Collins (BS '16), have launched a new podcast called "BLEAV in Chicago Sports" with the BLEAV Podcast Network.
"We can't wait to give all our Illini family some fun Chicago sports talk and hopefully sprinkle in some Illini as they're ready to be… Read More
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Justin Breen (BS '99, journalism), the founder/CEO of BrEpic Communications, LLC, won a Silver Trumpet award from the Publicity Club of Chicago at the 61st annual Golden Trumpet Awards competition on September 10. BrEpic has won a Golden or Silver Trumpet in all three years it has been in business… Read More
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Black Ink Group, LLC, announced the launch of the BlackCoin Mobile Application as part of the BlackCoin Campaign, an effort to track and incentivize day-to-day spending with Black-owned businesses. The mobile app, available on the AppStore and the Google Play Store, will allow the Black Ink Group… Read More
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Nicole Anderson Cobb (MS '16, journalism) is a recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Coronavirus News Collaboration Challenge Grant.
The project is a collaboration of 16 journalists and a project team representing 13 publications across the state of Illinois who will be… Read More
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Stuart Lieberman (BS '10, journalism) co-wrote The Power of Choice: My Journey from Wounded Warrior to World Champion with U.S. Paralympian Melissa Stockwell. The book shares Melissa's journey from being the first female soldier to lose a limb in the Iraq War to becoming a Paralympic medalist.… Read More
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Interns for the American Society of Media Photographers meet on Zoom; three are University of Illinois journalism students who were awarded part-time remote internships by the Department of Journalism. (Top row: Chantal Vaca and Taylor Chism. Bottom row: Julie Kang and Samantha St. Leger.) Photo… Read More
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Chris Evans, a new clinical assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, first knew he wanted to be a writer in middle school after winning fourth place in a national competition for a science fiction story he wrote.
“I grew up blue collar in a small town in Kansas.… That didn’t happen… Read More
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Nikki Usher, associate professor of journalism, and Margaret Ng, assistant professor of journalism, published a study that looks at how Washington, D.C., journalists cluster on Twitter.
Journalists in Washington, D.C., have long been accused of living in a “Beltway bubble,” isolated from the… Read More
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Jill Wine-Banks (BS '64, journalism) has launched a new weekly podcast called "Intergenerational Politics" with Victor Shi, a freshman at UCLA.
Wine-Banks, who won the 2019 Chicago Illini of the Year award, is the only woman to serve on the Watergate prosecution team, an MSNBC Legal Analyst, and… Read More
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This summer, Jillian Duchnowski (BS '03, journalism) self-published her second book, Cassidy and the Lost Fairy of Allerton, which was featured in the Piatt County Journal-Republican. She describes the book as "a children’s tale about using your imagination to beat boredom" and is set in Allerton… Read More
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Reverend Jason Carson Wilson (BS '99, journalism) became founding executive director of Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative, a Washington, D.C.-based policy advocacy organization focused on same-gender-loving (SGL)/LGBTQ+ people and people of color, in April 2018.
Wilson has also served as … Read More
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Catherine Adel West (BS '02, MS '04, journalism) has been garnering praise for her debut novel, Saving Ruby King, which was featured on USA Today's hottest new book releases for the week of June 15. West was also interviewed about her book and the importance of inclusive publishing by Parade. … Read More
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Jeffrey Katz (BS '78, journalism) is the news director at WAMU, the NPR news station in Washington, D.C. He joined WAMU in May 2017, after many years as a reporter and editor in digital news, radio, magazines, and newspapers. He was an editor at NPR for 15 years at Morning Edition and as the deputy… Read More
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Jim Selle (BS '92, journalism) has been promoted to executive producer of Good Day Chicago, overseeing six hours of morning news at Fox 32 Chicago.
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Charles “Stretch” Ledford, associate professor of journalism, received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes instructors for outstanding performance both in and out of the classroom. Honorees have demonstrated a commitment to teaching and to students in every… Read More
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Responding to thousands of invaluable internships cancelled because of COVID-19, two recent University of Illinois alumni have created a way to simultaneously support their fellow Illini and the many small businesses impacted by the pandemic throughout Illinois.
College of Media graduate Walker… Read More