Congratulations to Assistant Professor Martine Granby on being selected as a jury member at the Camden International Film Festival. She will serve as a juror for the Cinematic Vision category and for the Harrell Award for best feature-length documentary film at the competition based in Maine. Prof. Granby is a nonfiction filmmaker whose creative research […]

The UConn Journalism Department has some exciting news to share. Associate Prof. Marie Shanahan has completed her five-year appointment as department head and has returned to teaching, and Prof. Mike Stanton has taken on the role of interim department head this fall. Prof. Shanahan provided visionary leadership during her tenure, which was marked by growing […]

Husky WOW, the week of welcome for new students at the University of Connecticut, featured three great ambassadors of the UConn Journalism Department, Educational Program Coordinator Ellen Devlin (not pictured) and journalism majors Dannan Page and Thaddeus Sawyer. 

Congratulations to Ervin Adjei, a UConn Journalism May graduate, on being named the 2026 Southern New England Association of Black Journalists’ Emerging Journalist of the Year and recipient of the Presidents’ Scholarship. After interning at NBC Connecticut, Earvin has begun his journalism career at WTNH in New Haven, where he is a digital assignment editor.

  Many of our UConn Journalism students are doing interesting internships this summer, including Kaden Knapp, who let us know that he has enjoyed working on FOX Sports’ coverage of the World Cup this summer as an intern in Los Angeles. He passed along more good news: he’ll be interning with the TODAY show at […]

Marie K. Shanahan, the head of the UConn Journalism Department, spoke about the future of journalism on June 25 at The Westport Library at an event sponsored by the Connecticut Mirror. Prof. Shanahan, who soon will be teaching a new course on news literacy that will be open to non-journalism majors, said the internet is […]