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On the Basketball Beat

Prof. Mike Stanton spotted these hard-working UConn Journalism students covering the UConn-Iowa women’s basketball game on Nov. 8. Avery Becker and Jake McCreven are the sports editors of The Daily Campus while Kaden Knapp and Thaddeus Sawyer were calling the game for WHUS.

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A Message from Exile

Carlos Dada, founder of the El Salvador news site El Faro, recently spoke with Prof. Scott Wallace’s Global Press Freedom students from exile in Holland, where he continues to lead his staff’s coverage of the government of El Salvador’s authoritarian president Nayib Bukele.

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On the Job

On Nov. 3, UConn Journalism students fanned out across the state to gather election results for The Associated Press, USA TODAY and other news outlets. Journalism major Kitan Arole, who is interning at NBC Connecticut, helped write story blocks for the website, monitored election updates and observed how the newsroom managed live election coverage. She […]

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Horizon Wings

Mary-Beth Kaiser of Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Ashford speaks with Prof. Scott Wallace’s Environmental Journalism students about the importance of caring for the injured birds of prey brought to her sanctuary.

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Spreading the News

Lecturer Harriet Jones and Prof. Julie Serkosky, second and third from left, traveled to the University of Vermont in October to discuss the non-profit Connecticut Student Journalism Collaborative that they co-founded to see the best UConn Journalism student work published.

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Three excellent photojournalists

Prof. Scott Wallace and Lecturer Richard Messina joined world-renowned photojournalist Paula Bronstein on the stage recently at the Dodd Center for Human Rights when she spoke about her book, “Witnessing Life: A Retrospective.” The Pulitzer Prize nominee has covered wars and humanitarian crises in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine for four decades.

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