Stories indexed under: School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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• University reaffirms support for investigative journalism June 5, 2013 In an early-morning action, the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature voted to adopt a motion that would separate the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its collaboration with the students and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Drechsel to head Center for Journalism Ethics May 21, 2013 Professor Robert Drechsel has been named director of the Center for Journalism Ethics (CJE) and Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics at the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Journalism students create strategic campaign for new company May 8, 2013 The TV show “The Apprentice” comes to mind when students in Deb Pierce’s capstone journalism course describe their semester. Twenty-five seniors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had signed up to apply everything they’d learned, over four years of classes and internships, to an actual client.
• Mark Johnson honored with Anthony Shadid ethics award April 1, 2013 The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor Milwaukee Journal Sentinel health and science reporter Mark Johnson with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, at the center's annual conference April 5, 2013.
• UW alumna Alpert to talk about advertising career March 20, 2013 Teresa Alpert's career took her on a path from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to special education teacher and engineer before leading her to a career in advertising.
• Who shapes the news? Conference explores future of independent journalism March 19, 2013 Can journalists remain independent as the line between editorial and advertorial blurs, and as journalists write increasingly for corporations, academic centers and nonprofit agencies?
• Riddle’s childhood exposure to media violence informs her work Feb. 28, 2013 Karyn Riddle remembers worrying as a child that she or her family would become victims of violent crime. Looking back now, she’s puzzled by those childhood fears.
• Journalism students learn ethics through online case study Feb. 8, 2013 You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.
• Professor, innovator featured at Tuesday celebration Oct. 9, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Young Mie Kim sprung up as an innovator in action even before the Year of Innovation dawned this week on campus.
• UW-Madison investigative reporting collaboration honored July 11, 2012 The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have won a national award for their collaborative efforts to produce investigative reporting.
• Americans’ information needs not being met, study finds July 11, 2012 Americans' lives are still grounded in the communities where they live and require a set of basic information to navigate daily life, despite the proliferation of technology that seems to shrink the world by the hour.
• UW-Madison journalism students explore ideal in K-12 education May 23, 2012 When it comes to K-12 education in the state of Wisconsin, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students has a pretty good idea of what would make for the ideal system.
• Students make pitch for real-life advertising experience May 18, 2012 Marie Renckens stood before her client, walking through a proposed advertising campaign for a first-of-its-kind pediatric health care tool the client, Marshfield Clinic, is developing.
• National science reporter to visit UW-Madison campus April 19, 2012 Juliet Eilperin, national environmental reporter for The Washington Post, will participate in “Science Writing in the Age of Denial,” a symposium of science writers, and speak to journalism classes during the week of April 23 as the Public Affairs Writer in Residence.
• Journalism ethics conference to explore media, money and elections March 28, 2012 In an age of partisan journalism and "combat" politics, is the idea of media helping citizens make informed electoral choices a quaint but outdated notion?
• Veteran journalist Lovejoy wins first Anthony Shadid Ethics Award March 26, 2012 The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor veteran newsman Steve Lovejoy, editor of the Journal Times in Racine with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, on Friday, April 13.
• Selig to give Taylor lecture March 26, 2012 Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig will be on campus next month, giving a lecture called, "Talking Baseball: The Challenges of Communicating in Turbulent Times."
• Memorial fund established in honor of Anthony Shadid Feb. 17, 2012 Alumni and friends of foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid have established a memorial fund in his honor to ensure that his life and legacy lives on at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Anthony Shadid: A journalist's life remembered, a legacy that lives on Feb. 17, 2012 The world knew Anthony Shadid as a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who covered the Middle East. The University of Wisconsin-Madison knew Shadid when he was just a young journalism student on deadline for the Daily Cardinal.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to speak at UW-Madison about post-9/11 security Feb. 13, 2012 Dana Priest, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes about intelligence and counterterrorism, will speak at UW-Madison on Tuesday, Feb. 28, about the rise of the post-9/11 security state in the U.S.