Get to know some of our College of Media faculty. Colleen King is director of the Richard and Leslie Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media and clinical assistant professor of journalism. How did you get your start in journalism? I went to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and there I majored in political communication, which […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Rheanna Lewis is a Class of 2026 journalism major. Why did you choose journalism as a major?As a kid I always loved storytelling. Although I wasn’t thinking about journalism back then, I enjoyed telling stories and being on camera. My mom bought me a camera when […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Faith Lee is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What brought you to Illinois?It’s close to home, only about an hour-and-a-half away, which is great because I can take the train home. I had visited UIUC before I made my decision, and I liked the […]
Get to know some of our College of Media faculty. Shachar Meron is a senior lecturer in advertising. What is your educational background? I actually started out as an art major as a freshman, then I shifted after that to the Division of General Studies as an undeclared student, trying to find my way. I wanted […]
Lawrence Ingrassia (BS ’74, journalism) has written a new book, A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery. A Fatal Inheritance, which will be available on May 14, 2024, narrates the tale of a team of dedicated researchers who solved the medical mystery behind seemingly unrelated cancers devastating his and other families. […]
April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood When Andrea Campos graduated from Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in advertising, she had no idea she’d be returning 12 years later as the alumni speaker at the 2024 College of Media Convocation ceremony. But as an artist and creative entrepreneur whose recent career accomplishments include illustrating a New […]
April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood The College of Media is collaborating with University of Illinois and community partners to present educational workshops to local children this spring as part of a new public engagement effort. The collaboration between the College of Media and the Center for Social and Behavioral Science focuses on creating hands-on […]
After Party, a short film produced by alum Kat Williams (BS ’22, media and cinema studies), will be featured on Thursday, April 4, at the Knight Auditorium of Spurlock Museum, as part of the screening series presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies. This year’s Ebert Fellows, who curated the evening’s films, chose the […]
March 29, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood (Photos by Charles “Stretch” Ledford.) A group of journalism students heard harrowing stories from the local women they interviewed while filming a documentary about period poverty in Sierra Leone, West Africa, over spring break. “Girls talked of being bullied at school when they got their period. Mothers talked about […]
March 29, 2024 AUDIENCE CHOICE FILM IS ROBERT ALTMAN’S ‘COOKIE’S FORTUNE’ NEWLY LAUNCHED ‘LITTLE INDIAN GIRL COLLECTIVE’ PANEL IN DIALOGUE AND PERFORMANCE ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ‘ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND’ TO BE SCREENED Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is pleased to announce its full program, with the additions of the documentary Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi […]