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The 2025 Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium, presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, will address "Artificial Intelligence Imagined and Realized." The Ebert Symposium’s mission this year is to bridge academic research with broader cultural conversations about the uses of artificial… Read More
Advertising News
The American Advertising Federation at Illinois is the largest student chapter in the nation, currently boasting more than 400 members. Caroline Burns, a senior in advertising and president of the AAF at Illinois, knows why.
“I think it’s a combination of we’ve been around for so long at the… Read More
College News
Media Career Services is holding its first annual Media Career Week, featuring workshops, guest speakers, and media professionals offering helpful insights to prepare College of Media students for a campuswide career fair as well as their post-graduation career.
Media Career Week will kick off… Read More
College News
Actress Rosanna Arquette and Directors Azazel Jacobs, Baltasar Kormákur, and Susan Seidelman will attend this year’s festival
CHAMPAIGN, IL (February 3, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the addition of three new films to this year’s festival:
40th… Read More
Journalism News
Jay Rosenstein (BS ’82, Grainger Engineering; MS ’98, journalism; MFA ’17, FAA), professor emeritus of media and cinema studies, recorded and released a new album with his band the Woke Mountain Boys titled Afraid of Leaving Home. The album was recently selected for two top ten Best Albums of 2024… Read More
College News
Guy Maddin’s Rumours gets set for this year’s lineup
Producer Scott Budnick and Director Guy Maddin to attend this year’s festival
CHAMPAIGN, IL (January 15, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today that Todd Phillips’ The Hangover starring Bradley Cooper, Ed… Read More
College News
Three experiential learning opportunities are being offered to students this spring including two new trips—one to the nation’s capital and another to two Scandinavian countries—as well as a return visit to the West African country of Sierra Leone.
Washington, D.C., March 19-22
Colleen King,… Read More
Journalism News
Nicole Anderson Cobb (MS '16, journalism) shared her experience with historical research and theater-making in the newly released edited volume Dramaturgy & History: Staging The Archive.
Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often… Read More
Journalism News
Stuart Lieberman (BS '10, journalism; BA '10, LAS) was named head of communications at SailGP, overseeing media, public relations, and communications in North and South America.
SailGP is an international sailing competition that features high-performance F50 foiling catamarans, where teams… Read More
Journalism News
Cheryl Whitlow Thompson (BS ’82, LAS; MS ’84, journalism) will be the first to tell you journalism is not just a job to her—it’s who she is.
Digging deep to uncover truths, holding those in power accountable, and asking the tough questions comes naturally to the investigative correspondent and… Read More
Journalism News
We CU Community Engaged Scholars and the Humanities Research Institute at Illinois selected Courtney Dillon, a senior earning a dual degree in journalism and in sociology, as one of five Humanities in Action scholars to work with community partners throughout the Fall 2024 semester.
The… Read More
College News
Chaz Ebert and the University of Illinois College of Media announce that the opening night film of the 2025 Roger Ebert’s Film Festival will be a new 70mm print of the Western classic The Searchers (1956), starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood. The four-day festival, named for famed film critic… Read More
Advertising News
As part of the College of Media’s three-part webinar series this fall, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement,” faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies led Q&As to explore how productive discussions occur across lines of… Read More
Media & Cinema Studies News
As part of the College of Media’s three-part webinar series this fall, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement,” faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies led Q&As to explore how productive discussions occur across lines of… Read More
Journalism News
As part of the College of Media’s three-part webinar series this fall, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement,” faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies led Q&As to explore how productive discussions occur across lines of… Read More
College News
Each fall, the Roger Ebert Fellows program selects three College of Media undergraduate students to complete a yearlong fellowship that immerses students into the film industry and provides them with opportunities to sharpen their critical writing skills and engage with the film community.
The… Read More
College News
College of Media faculty, staff, and students can see notable changes at Gregory Hall after several major remodeling projects that began in May 2024 have been completed or are scheduled to wrap up this fall semester.
Thanks to a sizeable investment from campus, the college has been able to… Read More
Journalism News
At its first event of the 2024-25 school year, the Illinois chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists hosted “Black on Black Commentary,” where students discussed popular topics involving the Black community in the media, such as election coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris… Read More
College News
Chuck Todd, NBC News’ chief political analyst and former moderator of the network’s flagship Sunday public affairs program Meet the Press, will be on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for a conversation about the presidential election results on Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 5-6 p.m.
Todd… Read More
Journalism News
Kate McQueen (BA ’02, LAS; MS ’17, journalism) has been named the winner of the 2024 Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award by ACES: The Society for Editing and the Asian American Journalists Association-Los Angeles.
McQueen, editorial director of the Pollen Initiative, was honored for her work with new and… Read More