As artificial intelligence technology evolves to transform higher education and media quickly, the UW Department of Communication is keen to examine ways in which AI technology can improve learning for students and prepare them for success after graduation. We are delighted to share that two projects spearheaded by our faculty have received funding through the … Read More
The 2026 legislative session is scheduled to end next week in Olympia, but as teaching professors of journalism at the University of Washington, we are thinking about the beginning. On the Friday before the opening gavel in early January, reporters gathered in a Capitol hearing room to engage in pregame analysis with legislative leaders and … Read More
On Jan. 14 at the University of Washington, the Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy (CJMD) hosted a discussion on political violence in the U.S. with The New Yorker staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells. Around 40 to 50 people filled the room, all students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in or studying journalism, communication, political science, and … Read More
By the time UW alumna Thuc Nhi Nguyen was in middle school, she had a regular afterschool routine. She would rush home to watch three sports-talk programs on TV: first Sports Center, then Around the Horn, and finally Pardon the Interruption. And as she watched, she thought, “That’s what I want to do. I want to … Read More
Many of us know Angela King as the morning voice of KUOW—Seattle’s public radio station. And many are familiar with King at a podium, the cheerful sound of her voice filling the HUB ballroom at the annual Celebration dinner hosted by the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity. The Pacific Northwest journalist is a perennial … Read More
Last week, CJMD hosted Public Media Under Pressure, a sobering yet productive conversation with Seattle-area public media presidents Rob Dunlop, Cascade PBS; David Fischer, KNKX; and Tina Pamintuan, KUOW. Together with CJMD co-director Matt Powers, panelists discussed the growing challenges facing public media, including threats to federal funding. The conversation offered both a candid look at … Read More
UW Communication’s Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy (CJMD) recently co-hosted “Technology for the People,” a UW Salon with Society + Technology at UW (S+T). This salon brought together prominent voices from all three UW campuses in the technology, media, and communication fields to discuss efforts to promote digital equity and information access in the … Read More
Type any topic into a search engine. A Wikipedia entry is likely to show up in the results, written by people with an interest in the topic. Wikipedia is the most ubiquitous example of “peer production” websites, which are sites dependent on a community of unpaid content contributors. Built through the mass aggregation of small contributions, … Read More
Recently, COM and JPIC students were treated to a special class panel on “Black press in Seattle, past, present and future.” The panel featured Omari Salisbury of Converge Media, Chris Bennett of The Seattle Medium, and JPIC alum, Chardonnay Beaver, whose family owns and runs the news outlet, The Facts. Salisbury, Bennett, and Beaver shared … Read More
The Department of Communication’s first-year graduate students recently presented their scholarship to an audience of faculty, staff, and fellow students at a research poster session. Poster sessions are a common platform at scholarly conferences, and this session provided an excellent opportunity for students to practice taking questions about their projects from audiences. Capping off the … Read More