COM 2021-2022 Scholarships Application Now Open
Attention all Communication and JPIC undergraduates: Thanks to generous donations from our alumni and friends, the Department of Communication is able to award a number of scholarships every year. The application for these awards is NOW OPEN — one application…
Benjamin Mako Hill Receives NSF CAREER Award
In April 2021, Assistant Professor Benjamin Mako Hill received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models…
UW Communication 2021 Graduation Celebration
Greetings to all UW Department of Communication graduates, families, and friends! While we weren’t able to gather on our beautiful campus for a traditional ceremony, the Department planned a special virtual graduation celebration (see below for ways that you can…
CJMD Spotlight: Public opinion in U.S. broadcast news
In this Spotlight by the UW Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy, Dr. Kathleen Beckers discusses how public opinion is portrayed in U.S. broadcast news: Social and political issues make up the lion’s share of news coverage, drawing individuals’ attention…
COM Spring 2021 Colloquia
From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor Featuring Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd In the third COM Spring colloquium, Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd will discuss two related case studies to explore how Black publics online have shifted racial humor as…
Comm Lead Program Welcomes New Leadership
At the start of the new year, the Communication Leadership graduate program welcomed new leaders, Gretchen Ludwig and Dr. Ekin Yasin. As the program’s new Associate Director, Ludwig joins the program just six months after Dr. Yasin took the helm…
COM Alumni “Ask Me Anything”
Recognizing that many of our Communication students are set to graduate into one of the most precarious job markets in history, the COM Outreach and Advising teams partnered with select alumni to help our students grow their professional networks and…
After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi || CJMD Spotlight
In March 2021, the CJMD hosted a conversation with Zizi Papacharissi about her new book: “After Democracy: Imagining our Political Future” (Yale University Press). The book draws on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries to explore…
COM Colloquium: Indigenous Journalism, Cooperative Media
In this presentation, acclaimed journalist Tristan Ahtone discusses approaches to cooperative reporting and newsroom organizing as tools to restructure the way news organizations operate and subvert long-standing journalism values that rely, and thrive, on racism, colonialism, capitalism, and nationalism: About…
2021 Scheidel Lecture: Horror Noire — Blacks in American Horror
In March 2021, the UW Department of Communication was thrilled to welcome acclaimed academic practitioner Dr. Robin Means Coleman to deliver the 2021 Scheidel Lecture. Dr. Coleman expanded on themes from her book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror from…