Rooks receives 2022 College of Media Emerging Leader Award

May 31, 2022 | Vivian La, Communications Intern Taylor Rooks (BS ’14, journalism), sports journalist and broadcaster at Bleacher Report, is known in the field of sports journalism for her interviewing skills and for her ability to connect with athletes. She was recently nominated for a 2022 Sports Emmy Award for “Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent.” […]

Klues receives 2022 College of Media Distinguished Alumni Award

May 31, 2022 | Vivian La, Communications Intern (Jack and Beth Klues.) Jack Klues (BS ’77, advertising), who has led some of the largest media companies over his 35-year career, has been selected to receive the 2022 College of Media Distinguished Alumni Award.  The award honors an alum whose career accomplishments and engagement with the […]

Media students present at 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Update May 10, 2022: Congratulations to Ethan Grinberg, sophomore in computer science + advertising (pictured above), for winning the Undergraduate Research Symposium’s Outstanding Award in the category of Numbers, Data, and Computation for his poster presentation on “The Mechanisms of Misinformation: Clustering Diffusion Networks of Low Credibility Sources by Topology.” His research mentor was Jacob Fisher, […]

Media faculty and TAs make list of teachers ranked as excellent

Congratulations to all of the College of Media faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students! This list is based on Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms completed by students during the Fall 2021 semester and Winter 2021-2022. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time […]

Complete slate of Ebertfest films, special guests announced

Update 4/13/2022: Comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried was originally scheduled to be one of the headlining guests at Ebertfest, accompanying the documentary Gilbert. Because of Gottfried’s death on April 12, Ebertfest will be dedicating its 22nd annual event in his honor.  The 22nd Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as Ebertfest, announced additional […]

College of Media faculty appointed to Associate Dean positions

April 8, 2022 | Holly Rushakoff  Two faculty from the College of Media have been appointed by Dean Tracy Sulkin to associate dean positions starting August 16.  Announced in January, Stephanie Craft, currently professor and head of the Department of Journalism, will serve as the College of Media’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.  Announced in […]

Film and television producer Feder to speak at 2022 Media Convocation

April 4, 2022 | Vivian La, Communications Intern  Alumnus Stephen Feder with BB-8 in the Lucasfilm Offices at the Walt Disney Studios. Stephen Feder (BS ’02, media studies) believes that with a little persistence and dedication to the things they love to learn about, students can accomplish anything. “I think if people can harness that, […]

From Gottfried to ‘Golden Arm,’ Ebertfest back in full swing

The 22nd annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as “Ebertfest,” has announced its full slate of films for the April 20-23 event. The list announced today includes an appearance by comedian Gilbert Gottfried to discuss his film Gilbert; another movie that introduces us to women arm-wrestlers; and an […]

Media Career Night virtual panels extend engagement opportunities between students and alumni

  Media Career Nights, a college initiative borne out of necessity during the pandemic, has become a successful continuing model for connecting students with alumni from across the nation. Now in its second year, this virtual series has been an innovative and effective way to facilitate panel discussions focused on careers in specific media industries. […]

Directors del Toro, Zwigoff join Ebertfest slate

  The 22nd Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as Ebertfest, announced that director Guillermo del Toro will return to the festival in April alongside screenwriter Kim Morgan with a black-and-white version of their Oscar-nominated movie Nightmare Alley. Director Terry Zwigoff also will attend with his cult classic film […]

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