February 1, 2024 UPDATE: Watch a recording of the 2024 UIUC Student Film Festival, featuring 13 film selections created by students at the University of Illinois. Join us for a celebration of student filmmaking at the 15th annual UIUC Student Film Festival, featuring the work of students from across the University of Illinois campus. Programming will include roughly 2 […]
December 13, 2023 Illinois Public Media is proud to announce the launch of Illinois Soul, a new radio station highlighting Black experiences, celebrating Black culture, elevating Black voices, and showcasing Black music. “Public media is uniquely positioned in today’s media landscape to meet the needs of its community in ways that commercial media might not, […]
November 30, 2023 Festival passes for Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, to be held Wednesday, April 17, through Saturday, April 20, 2024, will go on sale Friday, Dec. 1, at 10 a.m. CT. Also known as Ebertfest, the four-day festival—named for the late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, University of Illinois journalism alumnus, and Urbana native Roger Ebert—will […]
November 16, 2023 | Holly Rushakoff The late comedy legend brothers Arte Johnson (BS ’49, radio journalism) and Coslough Johnson (BS ’52, radio journalism) made sure to invest in the future of media by preserving part of its past. (Gisela and Arte Johnson by Michael P. Maron Photography.) Both have donated artifacts to the University […]
November 9, 2023 Show off your University of Illinois and college pride with branded apparel items featuring the College of Media, Advertising, Journalism, Media & Cinema Studies, and the Institute of Communications Research. From November 9 through December 4, a College of Media apparel shop will be open with items to purchase including branded sweatshirts, ball caps, T-shirts, […]
October 10, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood When Joe Laxamana lost his younger brother Jonathan in December 2022, he and some of their lifelong friends wanted to find a way to honor his memory. “We wanted to find something that connected what Jonathan was about and who he was—and one of his greatest passions in life […]
October 2, 2023 Join us for a tour of the recently renovated Richmond Studio, featuring the brand-new Richard and Leslie Frank Newsroom; remarks by Provost John Coleman, Dean Tracy Sulkin, and Richard and Leslie Frank; a ribbon-cutting ceremony; and cake. Learn more about the renovation.
September 21, 2023 Update 11/9/2023: Watch the recording of “A Conversation with Brian Williams.” Brian Williams, former anchor of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, will be on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for a conversation about the evolution of broadcast news in America on Monday, October 23, 7-8 p.m. This event […]
September 21, 2023 Brian Williams, former anchor of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, will be on campus for a conversation about the evolution of broadcast news in America. A 40-year veteran of television news, Williams has received a dozen Emmy Awards, 11 Edward R. Murrow Awards, the duPont-Columbia Award, the […]
August 28, 2023 The Master of Science in Advertising degree granted by the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising is now officially designated as a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degree—the first master’s in advertising program to do so—effective Spring 2024, based on a department review of the curriculum and strategic goals of the program. […]