Fact-checking has flourished since 2007, when new projects like the Tampa Bay Times’ PolitiFact launched to fact-check American politics. In the years since, more news organizations have put attention and resources toward … More →

Event Details When: September 20, 2016, 7:00 PM Location: H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. Contact:info@discovery.wisc.edu Registration is encouraged. This public lecture series, held at 7 p.m. on the … More →

Professor Dhavan Shah was awarded a total of $2.4 million in grant funding to support research on digital media and health through projects with two teams of researchers, one in the Department of Medicine and the … More →

Professor Sue Robinson was a top-five selection in AEJMC’s Presidential Call for Papers on Revitalizing the Bonds of Journalism, Citizenship, and Democracy. The ranking of the five papers will be announced at … More →

Professor Dhavan Shah has been named a Fellow of the International Communication Association. The award goes to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the broad field of communication and media studies. … More →

Let me start by saying…while I read and write for a living, public speaking –in this format– isn’t my thing.  I write and tell other people’s stories…they as subject guide where they … More →

PhD student Juwon Hwang has won second place in the student paper competition for the AEJMC Communication Theory & Methodology division with her paper titled “The First Decision for My Child: Mechanisms … More →

May 6, 2016        By Will Hoverman   Assistant Professor Kathleen Bartzen Culver has been named director of the Center for Journalism Ethics (CJE) in the UW–Madison School of Journalism … More →

By Carly Schesel The enslaved men interviewed wanted so badly to let their families know they were alive that they wanted reporters to use their names and faces. But the reporters knew … More →