SJMC Weekly Announcements

UW-Madison's student-run radio station, WSUM, has hired Andrew Schneider as their new full-time broadcast engineer. Andrew is thrilled to finally be a part of the UW-Madison family. He comes from the corporate IT space, having spent time at Trek Bicycle Corporation and, most recently, Exact Sciences. Additionally, he is a current on-air host and volunteer at WSUM as well as a former member of the Friends of Madison Student Radio board. In his free time, Andrew is a big sports fan (go Yankees) and music lover who is happy to spend hours at record stores digging for vinyl. He looks forward to getting up to speed with WSUM’s unique setup and helping to support his favorite radio station.

Katy weighed in on the debate over whether or not the New York Times should have published the Unabomber's manifesto after it received a note from the Unabomber threatening to kill again in 1995. This question of whether or not media should serve as a platform for material that might lead others to take harmful actions or mislead the public is still fiercely debated. Read the full article in the New York Times.

A paper led by recent Ph.D. graduate Matt Minich titled "In the mood for music: Listening to music, other smartphone uses improve adolescent mood" has been accepted for publication at Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. Minich wrote the paper along with QianQian Zhao and Jens E. Eickhoff, both researchers in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (UMSMPH), and Megan A. Moreno, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UWSMPH.

A paper written by Professor Lucas Graves and titled "From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field," was published in Digital Journalism this week. The study investigates what the journalism industry's sudden focus on "debunking" means for fact-checkers themselves and examines the impact on how these fact-checking organizations assign value and draw boundaries in their growing transnational field Read the full article.