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The Institute of Communications Research is excited to announce our newest cohort! Please learn more about their research interests in their profiles below and join us in welcoming them to the University of Illinois College of Media community this fall. Tingyu Chen received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and her master’s degree in communication at […]
Updated June 23, 2021: Congratulations to Tim Schwab (MS ’06, journalism) for winning the Deadline Club Award from the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists! Schwab also recently landed a book deal with Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt) to publish The Good Billionaire. “All of this work relates to an ongoing reporting project […]
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 Fall 2020 semester and Winter 2020-2021. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time […]
Ewa Maslowska, an assistant professor in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, was selected to receive the Provost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement Grant. The grant enables recipients to design, implement, and assess instructional and pedagogical innovation that has a high probability of enhancing education at the University of Illinois. “I am just very honored […]
Thomas Benjamin Littlewood, who served as head of the Department of Journalism from 1977 to 1987 and retired as professor emeritus in 1996, died on June 6. He was 92 years old. “He was a powerful leader for our department in the 1980s,” recalled Professor Brian Johnson. Littlewood had a high-profile career as a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times from […]
Steve Hall, a senior lecturer in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, received the 2021 Barton A. Cummings Gold Medal Award with a unanimous vote from the American Advertising Federation. The award recognizes distinguished individuals for their service to advertising through volunteer work with the AAF, and this is the first time that it […]
Lynn Schreiber Price (BS ’77, advertising) was recognized for her exceptional leadership, distinguished work, and a deep commitment to improving child welfare. She was named a 2021 Re-Envisioning Foster Care in America (REFCA) Champion. Price is the founder of Camp To Belong in Littleton, Massachusetts, which reunites siblings separated by foster care, offering summer camps and year-round programs designed […]
Karen Hawkins (BS ’97, journalism) has won a 2021 Studs Terkel Community Media Award for her work as co-editor in chief of the Chicago Reader and founder of feminist media company Rebellious Magazine. The Studs Terkel Award is given by Public Narrative to Chicago reporters, editors, producers, videographers, and photographers who exemplify the values of Terkel’s journalism by taking […]
Update 8/26/2021: Ebertfest rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns Update 8/18/2021: Ebertfest announces first films and guests, COVID-19 protocols Passes for the 22nd annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” are now on sale. Festival passes cover all of the screenings during the festival, which runs September 8-11 at the Virginia Theatre, a restored downtown Champaign movie palace, with […]
On May 21, Tribune Publishing Co. confirmed that its shareholders approved a buyout offer by Alden Global Capital LLC. The vote gives Alden – an entity with a reputation for aggressive cost-cutting – control over the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News, along with a smattering of smaller papers. […]