SJMC Weekly Announcements
Week of March 4–8, 2024
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Kudos
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Professor Mike Wagner featured on In Focus with Murv Seymour on PBS Wisconsin
Last week, Mike sat down with Murv Seymour on In Focus to discuss teaching journalism in the 2020s as well as his life and career.
"We have to have a place that we can trust where we can learn about what's happening, and that's the news media. It's not social media." Watch Mike's full interview. Director Katy Culver featured in PolitiFact article about the ethics of revealing a juvenile defendant's identity
After two juvenile suspects were taken into custody for the Feb. 14 Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting, their identities were kept private in accordance to Missouri law. This is a stark contrast to 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse whose name and photo was all over the news when he was arrested for the 2020 shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Katy weighed in on the ethics and responsibility of journalists to weigh a minor's right to privacy and the public's right to know when deciding to identify juvenile defendants. Read the full article. Madison Commons raises over $3,000 during The Big Share
This week, Madison Commons participated in Community Shares of Wisconsin's Big Share, a 32-hour time of giving. From Monday, March 4 at 6 p.m. through Tuesday, March 5, Madison Commons raised over $3,000 to support their student and community reporters. Congratulations to MC publisher professor Sue Robinson, MC editor Stacy Forster and the rest of the Madison Commons team on such a successful fundraising effort! Happening Now: Communication Crossroads 2024
The 2024 Communication Crossroads Conference began this morning at 9:30 a.m. and is well underway. This year's conference features four research panels with topics including media, power and partisanship, health and risk communication, community and social change, and authority, ideology and democracy in a global perspective. Follow along today on Twitter/X with #CrossroadsUW
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Vilas Hall Happenings
The latest happenings at the SJMC and links for easy sharing with your networks.
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Doug McLeod, Evjue Centennial Professor, has won the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He is one of five faculty members on campus who were selected to receive the Chancellor’s award, an honor that has been given out since 1973 to recognize UW-Madison’s best educators.
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PhD students Wil Dubree and Carlos Dávalos receive 2023-24 Teaching Assistant Awards
Congratulations to Ph.D. students Wil Dubree and Carlos Dávalos on their 2023-2024 Teaching Assistant Awards! The Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards recognize exceptional graduate students for their strengths and commitment to the craft of teaching.
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Celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month
Happy International Women's Day! Follow along all March long as we celebrate Women's History Month by highlighting some of our amazing J-School women in research! This week, we are excited to feature Xiaoya Jiang, a Ph.D. student studying public opinion using computational approaches.
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Upcoming Events
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Mar. 11: Preston Colloquium with Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Professor at the School of Information Studies and Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at Syracuse University, Jennifer Stromer-Galley will present her talk, "The Big Lie: The Delegitimization of Democracy in the United States," on Monday, March 11 at noon in the Nafziger Room (5055 Vilas Hall). Lunch will be provided.
Mar. 11: International Student F-1/OPT Information Session
International students: Join us in the Nafziger Room (5055 Vilas) on Monday, March 11 at 4 p.m. to learn from International Student Adviser Moldir Oskenbay about compliance with current federal regulations, maintaining your F-1 statues while traveling, guidance on submitting I-20 extensions and reduced course load requests, and essential details about applying for OPT.
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