J-School Graduation Celebration & Alumni Awards Banquet Canceled
We regret to announce that the 2020 Alumni Awards Ceremony and J-School Graduation Celebration have been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Culver Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Kathleen Bartzen Culver, associate professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics, has won the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award. She is one of 10 faculty members across campus to have been chosen.
18th Edition of Curb Magazine Launches Looking into the New Decade
The 18th edition of Curb magazine, which focuses on the power of decision-making, launches today, following the stories of those who are charting the course of Wisconsin’s future through their individual choices. The magazine, titled …
Future Broadcasters Get Hands-on Experience with Badger Report
For students pursuing a career in reporting from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the experience of a newsroom is invaluable.
SJMC Alumni Give Back in Big Way
April 9, 2019 was the first-ever Day of the Badger campaign, a campus-wide, multi-program fundraising event that raised $1,863,080 through 5,061 gifts from generous alumni and friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The …
Lucas Graves Wins The Bob Franklin Journal Award 2019 for “Boundaries Not Drawn: Mapping the Institutional Roots of the Global Fact-Checking Movement”
Exploring the phenomenon of fact-checking, this exceptional article achieves a number of important things that a journal article should do. It (1) explores historical and institutional background on fact-checking as a movement, (2) presents an …
Karyn Riddle Quoted in NYT Article About the Effects Viewing Violent Media May Have on Teenagers
Just as research suggests that we should shield young viewers from seeing fictional depictions of smoking and suicide, studies indicate that watching rape scenes can also do harm.
James P. Danky Wins AJHA’s Distinguished Service Award
The AJHA Awards Committee has announced that James P. Danky has won the rare honor of the organization’s Distinguished Service to Journalism History Award. This award is reserved for those generally outside the field of …
SJMC Ph.D. Student Yini Zhang Discusses Research Study About Post-Mass Shooting Sentiments on WPT’s Here and Now
Beto O’Rourke Cites SJMC Research Study on Twitter. In the wake of events like a mass shooting, many turn to Twitter which a new study calls “an important window into the nature of public mourning …
Ph.D. Student Meredith Metzler Awarded Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for Fall 2019
Ph.D. candidate Meredith Metzler was awarded the highly competitive Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for fall 2019. The Mellon-Wisconsin competition is administered by the Graduate School and supports dissertators in the College of Letters and Science conducting research in …
Professor Hernando Rojas Publishes Editorial in Nature: “Taming the Digital Information Tide to Promote Equality”
Interactive technologies are changing the ways we learn facts, develop attitudes and participate in politics, with the ensuing risk of increasing pre-existing inequalities. Addressing this challenge is the duty of researchers, technology companies, governments and …
Professor Sue Robinson Wins the 2019 Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Professor Sue Robinson will receive the 2019 Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at its August meeting in Toronto. The award is given to work that breaks new …
School of Rock: SJMC Professor Doug McLeod Jams with Band Tent Show Troubadours at Summerfest Stage
University of Wisconsin has plenty of talented students and alumni, yet not much attention is given to faculty. Tuesday, a professor at the university was in the spotlight on stage at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Doug …
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