After securing a prestigious UW2020 grant of $411,000 from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Discovery Initiative in May, SJMC professors Lew Freidland, Dhavan Shah and Mike Wagner have secured additional funding for their major research …
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2018 SJMC Ph.D. Grad Megan Duncan Publishes Article on Journalist Credibility Scores
https://www.poynter.org/news/how-do-news-audiences-actually-feel-about-elon-musk-style-credibility-scores
By Lindsay Palmer
War reporters in the 21stcentury deal with intensifying industrial, technological and political challenges that makes their work more and more precarious. That is the main takeaway of Lindsay Palmer’s new book Becoming the Story: War …
Kathryn McGarr wins Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize
Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kathryn McGarr, was recently selected for the Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Gentlemen of the Press: Post World War II Foreign …
Dr. Joseph N. Cappella Discusses Recommended Systems to Reaching Mass Audiences at Ivan L. Preston Research Colloquium
Dr. Joseph N. Cappella, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed a route to reaching mass audiences with a tailored persuasive appeal at the Ivan L. Preston Research …
Sue Robinson Wins Morgridge Center Award
SJMC Professor Sue Robinson was awarded the Morgridge Center’s Community-based Research Award. The focus of the award is on the collaborative enterprise between academic researchers (faculty, academic staff, graduate students and professional students) and community …
SJMC Professor Chris Wells Discusses Latest Research on Russian Twitter Influence During 2016 Election on WPT
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SJMC Students Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen and Jeff Tischauser Awarded Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowships
Ph.D. candidates Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen and Jeff Tischauser were each awarded the Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship for summer 2018. The Mellon-Wisconsin competition is administered by the Graduate School and supports dissertators in the College of Letters and Science …
SJMC Students Eunji Cho, Ornella Hills, Jinha Kim Receive Global Health Institute Graduate Student Research Awards
Three SJMC Ph.D. students were selected to receive funding through the UW-Madison Global Health Institute (GIH). Eunji Cho’s Student Research Award proposal, “Protecting Children from Junk Food Online Game: Introducing Stop-and-Take-a-Break Intervention Strategy,” was selected …
Dr. William “Chip” Eveland Discusses Race and Politics at Ivan L. Preston Research Colloquium
Dr. William “Chip” Eveland, communications and political science professor at the Ohio State University discussed inter-racial politics and race-related issues at the Ivan L. Preston Research Colloquium in Madison this February. “Inter-racial Political Talk and …