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.

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Agora Journalism Center Director Featured on PDX Podcast
Andrew DeVigal, director of the Agora Journalism Center, was featured on an episode of the Schmidt Show PDX podcast exploring the crossroads of journalism, democracy, and technology.
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Oregon Accelerator Students’ NIL Work Featured on OPB
Through the student-run organization Oregon Accelerator, students from the SOJC and Lundquist College of Business help athletes by creating content for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals.
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SOJC Journalism Student Covers Soccer Match in Ghana
Kalani Chai-Andrade ’25, who double majored in journalism and cinema studies, covered a President’s Cup match between Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko while interning as a photojournalist in Ghana.
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Student’s Podcast Featured on Oregonian’s ‘Beat Check’
Kaiya Laguardia-Yonamine, an SOJC master’s student in multimedia journalism, spoke with Duncan Hwang about the importance of local organizing on the Oregonian’s “Beat Check.”
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Agora Director Argues for Passage of Media Funding Bill
In a Poynter Institute commentary, Andrew DeVigal, director of the Agora Journalism Center, urged passage of a bill that would require tech companies to compensate local news sources for their content.
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5 Opportunities I Had Covering World Press Freedom Day
Ellie Johnson ’26 was one of four students who traveled to Belgium with the UO’s Crossings Institute to interview exiled journalists and report on the World Press Freedom conference hosted by UNESCO.
Eliza Aronson poses with a copy of Willamette Week newspaper
Snowden Alum’s Reporting Leads to Change in Law
Eliza Aronson '24, a former Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism intern, exposed sexual trafficking at Portland massage parlors in a Willamette Week story that led to a new Oregon law.
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SOJC Master’s Students Honored for VR Project
Three 2024 graduates of the Immersive Media Communications Master’s program—Luke Walker, Sam Morrison, and Kathleen Darby—placed third in Lenslist’s Spectacles Challenge for “Otter Rock: Beneath the Surface.”
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SOJC Alum Uses Storytelling to Highlight Gun Violence
As communications director for a regional office of gun violence prevention, Ariana Donaville, BS '17 (public relations), MS '20 (strategic communication), speaks out about violence prevention.
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Three SOJC Professors Receive Promotions
SOJC faculty Maxwell Foxman, media and game studies; Whitney Phillips, information politics and ethics; and Will Yurman, journalism, are among 96 UO faculty who have received promotions this spring.