May 20, 2025 A group of University of Illinois students have been recognized for their outstanding work in the 2024-25 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Update June 12, 2025: Congratulations to two journalism students for their outstanding accomplishments at the Hearst National Championships! Layli Nazarova won first place and a $10,000 scholarship award in Hearst’s National […]
June 5, 2025 Will Leitch (BS ’98, journalism), author, sportswriter, contributing editor for New York magazine, and podcast co-host, will serve as an executive producer of the movie adaptation of his latest novel Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride. Lionsgate purchased the rights to the novel, published by Harper in May, which focuses on Lloyd McNeil, a beat cop in […]
June 4, 2025 | Liz Westfield and Kelly Youngblood Students took their classwork to broadcast television with the opportunity to create documentaries this spring for Prairie Fire, WILL-TV’s magazine program offering cinematic documentaries, profiles, and performances from downstate Illinois. “It was so cool to see something we made [included] on a professional show,” said Adrien […]
June 2, 2025 Illinois Student Newsroom at Illinois Public Media members and journalism students Madison Holcomb and Layli Nazarova were named 2024 Mark of Excellence Awards winners in the audio category in their region by the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ’s Region 5 comprises collegiate journalists within Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. Holcomb, a senior, was […]
May 20, 2025 | Scroll.in News is vital to an informed democracy and newspapers in India remain the most credible news providers. Reinstating a national readership survey is essential—not just for the publishing industry but for the health of India’s public discourse. Harsh Taneja, Associate Professor of New and Emerging Media in the Charles H. […]
May 21, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood For his outstanding career accomplishments and generous monetary support of advertising students, Murray Kalis (BS ’61) was recognized by the College of Media with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award. Kalis, whose work has taken him across the world and back, heading his own agency, and serving as chair of […]
May 21, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood Stephanie Lulay’s (BS ’08, journalism) start-up venture, Block Club Chicago—whose mission is to deliver reliable, nonpartisan, and essential coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods—has become a news staple for readers throughout the city since its founding in 2018. Lulay serves as executive editor and co-founder of the award-winning newsroom, which […]
May 14, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood Leon Dash, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and Swanlund Chair Professor of Journalism, sat in his office chair on the third floor of Gregory Hall, appearing calm and collected on his last day of teaching at the College of Media. With 27 years of classroom instruction soon to be […]
May 9, 2025 | Newsweek Stories of the past might be whitewashed, rewritten, or replaced in official spaces, but people’s consciousness of the past can’t be stripped away. Melita Garza, Associate Professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism In this Newsweek opinion piece, Melita Garza, associate professor and Tom and June […]
May 5, 2025 Tom Burrell, a renowned Black visionary who changed the face of the ad industry for African Americans, will receive an honorary degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during the university-wide Commencement ceremony on May 17, 2025. The honorary degree award recognizes individuals who have shown exemplary, extraordinary, and distinguished contributions to […]