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. 

Paul Swangard ’90, a broadcast journalism alum, has won an Emmy for NBC’s coverage of the Paris Olympics. Swangard is also an SOJC instructor of advertising and sport brand strategy.

The third season of the podcast “One Cool Story: Tales from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication” features two alumni, a senior journalism student and a former professor.

Damian Radcliffe, the SOJC’s Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, is one of eight University of Oregon faculty members to earn a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for exceptional teaching.

SOJC students and faculty use immersive media, such as augmented reality and 360 video, to share coral research in Hawaiʻi, showing how science communication connects audiences to marine conservation.

A report by the SOJC’s Agora Journalism Center has found that Oregon’s local news ecosystem has continued to decline since its first study two years ago. It also outlines efforts to reverse the trend.

Alex Segrè Cohen, an SOJC assistant professor of science and risk communication, contributed to a study revealing the U.S. regions with the largest number of egregious water quality violations.

SOJC science communication researchers John Sutter, Alex Segrè Cohen, and Ben Bunquin take an interdisciplinary approach to connect science and society and help us build better connections to the natural world.  

SOJC alum Jonathan Bach ’16 will discuss his new book about the Bend housing crisis, “High Desert, Higher Costs,” with Associate Professor Brent Walth at Powell’s Books in Portland on April 29.

Lisa Peyton, an immersive and strategic communication instructor at the SOJC, led a talk on using generative AI tools for content creation at the MarTech online conference.