Stories indexed under: Journalism

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• Lecture Will Discuss Social Media's Influence on Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Nov. 7, 2011 With Facebook and other social media, patient groups in Canada pressed their government to authorize clinical trials for a radical new treatment that addresses an unproven theory of multiple sclerosis (MS).
• Rennie to be science writer in residence Oct. 20, 2011 John Rennie, a veteran science journalist, blogger and editor, has been named the Fall 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Writer in Residence.
• Science writer in residence assesses science publishing Oct. 20, 2011 John Rennie is the fall, 2011 UW-Madison science writer in residence. He will be on campus the week of Oct. 23 and will give a public lecture on the "tumultuous state of science publishing" at 4 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Memorial Union.
• Investigative reporter, Chicago business writer to visit campus April 8, 2011 One of the nation's leading investigative reporters and a writer who has chronicled innovation in Chicago business will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this month as writers in residence.
• ABC News global warming reporter to be science writer in residence April 6, 2011 Bill Blakemore, who leads coverage of global warming for ABC News, is the spring science writer in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• New York Times columnist to deliver talk on Afghan war Oct. 6, 2010 New York Times columnist Bob Herbert will deliver the University of Wisconsin Law School's annual Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 21.
• New classroom offers multimedia opportunities Sept. 20, 2010 Students in UW-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication now have a classroom that will keep pace with their multimedia training.
• UW-Madison students, faculty part of community news project Oct. 26, 2009 The debate over health care reform has dominated national headlines for most of the summer and fall.
• Environmental journalists migrate to Madison Oct. 5, 2009 Environmental journalists from around the country will flock to Madison and Wisconsin this week as the 19th annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) gets under way Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Concourse Hotel.
• Science and media disconnect? Maybe not, says a new study Sept. 9, 2009 The prevailing wisdom among many scientists and scientific organizations is that, as a rule, scientists are press shy, and those who aren't are mavericks.
• Conference examines ethical journalism at a time of change April 21, 2009 Leading journalists, scholars and media experts will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, May 1, to assess the future of ethical journalism in the public interest.
• HealthDay writer named biomedical writer in residence March 25, 2009 HealthDay writer Amanda Gardner has already made the transition many other journalists now face — from writing for the print media to the virtual world. Gardner will be the School of Medicine and Public Health’s biomedical writer in residence the week of March 30.
• Journalism classes combine to cover the economic crisis March 13, 2009 The nation's economic crisis, unfolding across Wisconsin in painful and historic ways, is being examined by student journalists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Noted Australian science writer to visit Feb. 11, 2009 Wilson da Silva, editor in chief of the award-winning Australian science magazine COSMOS, has been named a UW-Madison science writer in residence for this spring.
• Journalist to share insights into future of free trade, Doha Jan. 29, 2009 Prize-winning journalist Paul Blustein will visit campus Thursday, Feb. 5, as the featured speaker for “Free Trade under Threat: Impact for U.S. Business,” a public lecture with question-and-answer session hosted by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Wisconsin School of Business.
• Journalism students tackle real-time election coverage Nov. 3, 2008 As a history-making race for the White House enters its final hours, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students are busy crafting pre-election coverage and preparing to cover Election Day with a campus bent.
• New journalism master’s program highlighted with open house, conference Oct. 17, 2008 A retooled professional-track master's program in journalism that sharpens story-telling skills across a number of media platforms and provides tailored in-depth training in specialty reporting areas will be marked with an open house and mini-conference on Friday, Nov. 7.
• New student magazine hopes to reach all Badgers Oct. 1, 2008 A new magazine produced by and featuring UW-Madison students targets all Badgers.
• Science News writer will be in residence in September Aug. 27, 2008 Nathan Seppa, Science News biomedical writer, will be the biomedical and public health writer in residence on campus from Monday–Friday, Sept. 8–12, will give a public talk, “Evolutionary Medicine: What Happens When We Are Hard-Wired for the Stone Age but Live in the Modern World,” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, at Memorial Union (check Today in the Union for room).
• Scientists see bright side of working with media July 10, 2008 In a report published this week (July 11) in the journal Science, an international team of communications researchers reports that relationships between scientists and journalists are now more frequent and far smoother than the anecdotal horror stories scientists routinely share.