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Illinois alumna Taylor Rooks is only five years out from graduation, but has already landed her own Bleacher Report web series, Take It There with Taylor Rooks.
While at Illinois, Rooks covered nearly every football and basketball game. She came back to campus for Homecoming—but this time as a… Read More
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For the first time in FIFA Women’s World Cup history, each city had its own public fan movement.
FIFA sent out a blast on Twitter looking for the perfect fan to follow the teams around Europe and capture what it’s like to be in the stands.
College of Media junior Soula Motamed saw FIFA’s… Read More
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Alison Davis Wood (BS '91, MS '11, journalism) won a National Academy of Televisions Arts and Sciences Mid-America Emmy in the arts/entertainment program feature/segment for "Illinois Artists: Endalyn Taylor," produced for the Big Ten Network.
The team that worked on the video included producers… Read More
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Mario Parker (MS '06, journalism), a reporter for Bloomberg in Chicago, is moving to the Washington bureau to begin covering the White House. He has been writing about agriculture, energy, finance, and wide-ranging general breaking news across the U.S. Midwest.
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Generations of comics have used stand-up to educate the broader society about their culture or ethnic group. Now, Ms. Mariam Sobh, a radio anchor whose mother is from the Midwest and father is Lebanese, is part of a growing wave of performers across the U.S. using comedy to puncture stereotypes… Read More
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Christine Herman talks with former President Jimmy Carter. (Photo by Michael Schwarz.)
Illinois Public Media reporter Christine Herman (MS ’14, journalism) wrapped up her 2018-19 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellowship year in Atlanta in September. She had the honor of presenting… Read More
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Former Reuters Managing Editor Paul Ingrassia (BS '72, journalism) has passed away after battling cancer. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of many articles and books on the auto industry. Click here to read Reuters' tribute.
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Congratulations to Andrea Darlas (BS '94, journalism) for being inducted into WGN's 2019 Walk of Fame. Darlas, who works at the University of Illinois as senior director of constituent engagement, spent more than 21 years at WGN Radio as a news anchor, reporter, and show host.
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(Photo by the National Association of Black Journalists. Swanlund Chair Professor of Journalism Leon DeCosta Dash is pictured fourth from left.)
In 1972, seven black reporters from The Washington Post metropolitan desk took a stand for equality in the newsroom—becoming the first to challenge… Read More
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Which countries are similar in their web use patterns? What are the peer-to-peer dynamics among elite journalists in Washington, D.C.?
The findings to such data-driven questions can be demonstrated visually, with the emerging field of data visualization. In fact, Yee Man Margaret Ng, assistant… Read More
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Sean Neumann, a journalism alumnus from the University of Illinois, hosted a special edition of WILL's The 21st: The Ellnora Guitar Festival on Friday morning at the University of Illinois' Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Neumann is a journalist, musician, and the former producer of The… Read More
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Matt Brickman, who started at the CBS affiliate WCCO in 2011, announced that he's leaving the Twin Cities to become a meteorologist at WNBC in New York, the largest TV market in the country. Brickman studied journalism (BS '07) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The opportunity… Read More
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Gwen Pepin, a 2018 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected for the 2019 ProPublica Data Institute. Pepin is a workshop facilitator, reporter, and social media manager for the Westside Media Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit that teaches civic… Read More
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NPR and Edison Research has issued its third annual Smart Audio Report tracking smart speaker user behavior and perceptions. The study of the 18+ smart speaker owners says that seven in 10 of the owners use their devices daily despite common concerns around security and privacy. “We continue to see… Read More
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Congratulations to IES Abroad senior communications manager Abby (Wilson) Baric (BS '10, journalism) for being named one of Publicity Club of Chicago's 30 Under 30, a prestigious award that's designed to recognize the young rock stars of the public relations industry.
Since joining IES Abroad… Read More
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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