In honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and University of Illinois journalism alumnus Roger Ebert, three College of Media undergraduate students have been named as this year’s Roger Ebert Fellows. They will receive a stipend and work closely with Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune, to strengthen their writing, radio, video, […]
Illinois Public Media and the Department of Journalism are thrilled to officially announce the founding of the Illinois Student Newsroom at Illinois Public Media—a collaborative place for journalism students to work side-by-side with professionals in all facets of a public media newsroom. “The Illinois Student Newsroom at IPM is a great reflection of our educational […]
November 2, 2021 | Holly Rushakoff As part of a commitment to provide internship opportunities for first generation students and students from underrepresented populations, the College of Media launched the New Voices Internship Program this fall. Interns in the program will gain a variety of media-related skills through in-house projects and career development workshops. The […]
The Murray Kalis Award for Creativity in Advertising, established in 2020 by College of Media alumnus Murray Kalis, is given to a few select advertising students who demonstrate exceptional creative work in the classroom. The criteria for these awards includes: smart positioning, outstanding creative concept, strong execution, and a “wow” factor. The inaugural winners are: The students created […]
Journalism students in JOUR 215: Multimedia Reporting spent the Fall 2019 semester covering the Punkin Chunkin world championships, through print, audio, and video stories. They were selected to present their work at the 2020 University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium. Below is an excerpt from the students’ application, as well as some of the videos and audio […]
In her first week as a freshman, Farrah Anderson covered a Black Lives Matter protest organized by University of Illinois athletes. She marched through the streets of Champaign with her friend, observing both the campus and Champaign-Urbana community’s collective moment of racial reckoning. “I learned to get up close and really put myself out […]
In JOUR 460: Extended Realities and Immersive Technologies, a new journalism course that launched last fall taught by Assistant Professor Christopher Ball, students learned how new technologies can help solve real-world problems, as well as entertain others. Below are some of the student projects that were developed in that class. Learn more in a feature story about the […]
A new campus-funded initiative on strategic communication and emerging technology will connect advertising students, faculty, and brands, putting research into practice. The Hub for Brand Innovation and Advertising Technology is a partnership between the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, the Siebel Center for Design, and Technology Services at Illinois. Their proposal was selected to […]
For his final project in Associate Professor Charles “Stretch” Ledford’s JOUR 215: Multimedia Reporting course in Fall 2020, journalism student Owen Henderson created a piece on the Lory Theater in Highland, Illinois. Ledford helped his student submit it as a freelance piece to the Belleville News-Democrat. Henderson worked with the newspaper’s multimedia producer to get supplementary […]
In MACS 370: Cinematography and Sound Design, students had to build a strategy, a production plan, and a shooting plan for a movie that they write at the beginning of the semester, which is based on a famous painting. “They have to imagine a story that could happen, ending in that specific frame (of the painting), and develop […]