Stu Ellis (BS ’70, MS ’72, radio and TV) was featured in the October cover story of Illinois Field & Bean, the monthly magazine of the Illinois Soybean Association that focuses on industry influencers. The magazine cover shows Ellis finishing up a TV shoot at Decatur’s Progress City, for which he was responsible in assembling, to bring the Farm Progress […]
Congratulations to all of the College of Media faculty 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 Spring 2021 semester. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time period and who […]
October 6, 2021 | Da Yeon Eom, Communications and Marketing Intern When Dan Balz (BS ’68, MS ’72, journalism) arrived at the University of Illinois, he had no idea that he would choose journalism as his lifelong profession. His older brother, the late Doug Balz, who was also a journalism alumnus, had recommended that he […]
October 6, 2021 | Da Yeon Eom, Communications and Marketing Intern Suheily Natal Davis (BS ’04, broadcast journalism), senior director of global diversity, equity, and inclusion at McDonald’s, has led a life of championing others through her professional and personal endeavors. She felt the difference that a welcoming community and a strong support system can […]
Eugene Windchy (BS ’52, journalism) has published his fourth book, Fifteen American Wars: Twelve of Them Avoidable. Concerning World War I, he disputes the common lone wolf version of the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination by reporting that 16 men were judged complicit at trial in Sarajevo. War prevention has been Windchy’s chief concern since he in 1971 published Tonkin […]
Matt Fishman (BS ’93, broadcast journalism) was recently named one of the top 50 program directors in the country by Radio Ink magazine. He works at WKNR and WWGK in Cleveland, Ohio, part of Good Karma Brands. He has spent 27 years working in radio, with 11 years as program director. “First off, you need to have a […]
Elio Leturia (MS ’92, journalism), associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago, art directed and designed the book XVI Concurso Nacional de Nacimientos (XVI National Nativity Contest), which was published last December by the Instituto Cultural, Teatral y Social (ICTYS) in Lima, Peru. The illustrated 80-page book, sponsored by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and the Catholic University […]
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 […]