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Get to know some of our College of Media students! Talia Duffy is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What made you want to major in journalism? My whole life, I have always enjoyed speaking to people, and informing people about different things. Being able to investigate and learn more about different topics has always been […]
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 […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Emilio Reyes is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What made you choose journalism at Illinois?In my senior year of high school, I was doing a lot of self-reflection and I asked myself, “What am I good at?” I knew I loved talking, getting to know […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Gavin Schroeder is a Class of 2024 media and cinema studies major. What interested you in pursuing filmmaking at the College of Media?I’m from Peoria, Illinois. I didn’t know what my future would be like. Community college was a safe and affordable option for me […]
Ben Behrman (BS ’09, advertising) was recently promoted to chief executive officer of Schafer Condon Carter, a major ad agency based in Chicago. Behrman, a 14-year SCC veteran, joined the independent company as an intern in May 2009. He worked his way up from there, holding a variety of positions including account executive, director of […]
January 26, 2024 Several journalism students wrote investigative pieces that were recently featured in The News-Gazette. Students in JOUR 315: Advanced Public Affairs Reporting and JOUR 483: Investigative Reporting classes, taught in Fall 2023 by Professor Brant Houston, Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, had work originally published in CU-CitizenAccess, an online newsroom devoted to community and […]
Angie Leventis Lourgos (BS ’03, journalism) has published a new book, Life-Altering: Abortion Stories from the Midwest, with the University of Missouri Press. Based on pieces that originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, each chapter imparts one person’s experience with abortion. By looking at myriad factors that influence the decision to abort a pregnancy—whether socio-economic, religious, […]
January 11, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Advertising Professor Jason P. Chambers’s new biography about Tom Burrell, a renowned Black visionary who changed the face of the ad industry for African Americans, will be published on February 6. While Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell (University of Illinois Press) will appeal to those […]
January 11, 2024 | Jodi Heckel, University of Illinois News Bureau Julie Turnock, professor of media and cinema studies, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for a book project titled Beyond King Kong: Special Effects in the Hollywood Studio Era, 1915–1965. She will receive $60,000 in funding to research and write a […]
January 11, 2024 | Faith Lee (Communications Intern) and Kelly Youngblood Updated 2/15/2024 Four seniors in the University of Illinois chapter of the American Advertising Federation were named to the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Multicultural Students Class of 2024—an honor given to only 50 students each year throughout the United States. Honorees include advertising majors Aniya […]