News from the School of Journalism and Communication

Find out what SOJC students, faculty, and alumni are up to on campus, on the national stage, and beyond.

The SOJC Media Innovation Lab, inspired by MIT’s Media Lab, offers paid internships that prepare students for the job market with the skills and experience to assess and solve problems.
The founder of SOJC partner News Detective recommends a fact-checking system that blends the scale and engagement of community-based models with the accuracy and oversight of professional ones.
Associate Professor of Information Politics and Ethics Whitney Phillips discusses the ethics and draw of true crime media in the Deseret News.
In a first-of-its-kind study, Assistant Professor Alex Segrè Cohen and co-authors mapped the 32 million people in the U.S. who have limited or no access to safe drinking water and indoor plumbing.
The class of 2025 faces the highest unemployment rate in decades. But SOJC faculty help students by teaching transferrable skills and matching grads with employers, says Associate Dean Deb Morrison.
At the grand opening of the new UO Portland Campus, SOJC Portland faculty, staff, and students showcased the new home of the Oregon Reality Lab, Agora Journalism Center, and three master’s programs.
SOJC faculty and staff published an open letter to students and the UO community in The Register-Guard about the value of, and impact of ongoing attacks against, journalism and freedom of the press.
The SOJC’s Whitney Phillips, a media studies scholar and author of “The Shadow Gospel,” clears up what most people get wrong about political polarization and why it matters.
The six-member SOJC public relations squad was one of 12 teams honored in the national Bateman Case Study Competition. Their campaign focused on the importance of library advocacy.
In an article in the International Journalists’ Network, SOJC Professor Damian Radcliffe writes that while generative AI can be a powerful tool for reporters, it can also be weaponized against them.