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.
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. 
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 said it was a great learning experience.
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.
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.
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.
Paula Bronstein spoke at UConn in October about her four decades as a photojournalist covering wars and humanitarian crises in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. The Pulitzer Prize nominee, seen here speaking with Prof. Mike Stanton, the UConn Journalism Department head, spoke about her book, “Witnessing Life: A Retrospective.”
Our UConn Journalism majors are the best ambassadors to talk to prospective students and their families about the opportunities they've had in our program, so we were well represented on Sunday, Oct. 25 at the Fall Campus Visit Day by Maral Tarpinian, Nicole Caruso and Jake McCreven with Prof. Kate Farrish.
