Joe La Puma ‘05 will be CLAS Commencement Speaker at May 11 ceremony
Joe La Puma serves as SVP of Content Strategy at Complex NTWRK and hosts Complex’s “Sneaker Shopping,” the world’s No. 1 sneaker show, which has garnered over 1 billion views on YouTube. He has been at the forefront of sneaker and street culture at Complex for the past 15 years. La Puma started his journalism […]
[Read More]2025 UConn Journalism award winners and scholarship recipients
On May 1, 2025 UConn Journalism hosted the department’s annual scholarship awards event, which is a tribute to the hard work of our journalism majors and honors the outstanding achievements of our students. During the event, Department Head Marie Shanahan highlighted the optimism she has in our students to lean into rigorous, ethical journalistic storytelling […]
[Read More]The Future of Journalism as the ‘First Rough Draft of History’
Remarks delivered by UConn Journalism Professor in Residence Gail MacDonald on May 1, 2025 during the department’s annual scholarship awards ceremony. First, let me congratulate all the student award recipients. You are truly the promise of a great future for journalism. Most of you here this evening know the love I have for journalism. I’ve […]
[Read More]Cheyenne Leeman ’16 of ESPN encourages students to seek out practical experience
Alum Cheyenne Leeman, ’16, told students in UConn Journalism’s Society of Professional Journalists chapter on April 28, 2025 that she puts to use the journalism ethics she was taught at UConn every day as part of her job at ESPN. This includes how to treat her co-workers and story subjects in her position as a […]
[Read More]UConn Journalism’s Smith receives Carnegie Fellowship
Steven G. Smith, an award-winning multimedia storyteller and professor in the Department of Journalism, has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2025, joining just 25 other scholars nationally in receiving the prestigious honor for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each fellow will receive $200,000 for research focusing on subjects related to political […]
[Read More]Journalism students meet Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa
Students and faculty from the UConn Journalism Department and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn had a memorable and inspiring time meeting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa. The department and the institute were a Gold Sponsor of the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government’s Cronkite Freedom of Information Award gala, which honored Ressa […]
[Read More]Digging deeper: Students learn investigative skills from expert panel
“If you think something’s a story, follow your gut. It probably is.” “Dig into wider systemic problems. Data journalism is powerful, but always humanize a story with real people who are affected by the statistics.” Great advice offered by investigative journalists in Connecticut at panel discussion on March 31 sponsored by UConn’s student chapter of […]
[Read More]Lauren Stowell ’06 tells the Celtics story for HBO series
Lauren Stowell ’06 is director of the HBO Original nine-part series “Celtics City,” which debuted March 2, with new chapters airing each Monday through April 28. The documentary series chronicles the remarkable saga of the Boston Celtics, the NBA’s winningest and most storied franchise, from its founding as one of the league’s original teams all the way to […]
[Read More]2024 UConn Journalism award winners and scholarship recipients
We celebrated our favorite event of the academic year on April 25, 2024 — UConn Journalism’s annual awards night. Congratulations to our 19 winners, who received a total of $27,000 in scholarships, and to the 39 members of the Class of 2024, who received graduation honor cords at the ceremony. The featured event speaker was […]
[Read More]Professor Crawford wins New England press association award
UConn Journalism Assistant Professor Amanda J. Crawford won first place for Human Interest Feature Reporting in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper contest. Crawford, whose research focuses on the intersection of the mass shooting and misinformation crises, was recognized for her August 2022 Boston Globe Magazine cover story. The “epic” narrative — […]
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