SJMC Weekly Announcements

Jiawei Liu has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Cancer Communication at the STEM Translational Communication Center and Department of Advertising in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida this fall. He is currently a Research Associate in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. Congratulations to Jiawei!

Jing and Sijia have been selected to participate in the 2024 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. This five-day study experience that offers UW-Madison faculty and staff the opportunity to learn firsthand about the social and cultural contexts that shape the lives of many of our Wisconsin students and to see what the Wisconsin Idea looks like in practice. This year's seminar will highlight Wisconsin's rivers and will include stops at some of Wisconsin's large and small river cities. Congratulations, Jing and Sijia!

Jing Wang was a special guest in the Initium Podcast, talking about “Half a year into the Israel-Hamas war, what caused the global rifts?” (以哈战争半年，是什么引发了全球撕裂?). Initium is a Singapore-based digital media outlet launched in August 2015. It mainly provides in-depths news, opinions and lifestyle content to Chinese-speaking readers worldwide with the aim of staking out neutral terrain among Chinese readers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, the United States, United Kingdom, and other Chinese-speaking diasporic communities around the world. Listen to the podcast episode.

Max recently published an article titled "A Socially Responsible Trade: An Analysis of Ethical Discourse in Editor & Publisher, 1930-1934" in American Journalism. Max analyzed 265 E&P issues, published between 1930 and 1934, and found that reporters of the day were highly concerned about journalism ethics and argues that these ethical conversations promoted functions of a press system outlined by the Social Responsibility Theory of the Press more than a decade before its adoption in 1947. Read the full article.

Aman and Lucas recently published an article titled "Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism" in Digital Journalism." The study in this article departs from previous efforts by examining the role of both quantitative data and computational analysis in data-driven reporting. The article highlights the continued dependence on government data as well as the labor involved in scraping web data. Read the full article.

CAMER recently published a new article led by PhD alumna Jianing Li titled "Does news literacy help combat misinformation? The interplay of news literacy, political ideology, and ideological media use on COVID-19 misperceptions." The article was published in Information, Communication and Society and explores whether having news literacy matters in reducing COVID-19 misperceptions as well as for whom having news literacy matters most. Read the full article.

Join the Center for Journalism Ethics at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Monday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. to honor the 2024 winners of the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. This year's ceremony will feature a keynote conversation on journalism ethics with CNN's Manu Raju conducted by Katie Harbath, chief global affairs officer at Duco Experts. Register today.

Join us on Friday, May 10 in the Nafziger Room from 9-11 a.m. to celebrate the achievements of Courtney Bingham, Kelly Holm, Noreen Sharif, Omar Waheed and Katrina Williams as they complete their master's degrees.

Join us on Friday, May 10 at the Discovery Building from noon–2 p.m. for a celebration of our graduating undergraduate and graduate students. The event will include individual recognition of each graduate, a keynote speech from Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum (MA'82), Bucky Badger, professional photography and light refreshments.