Faculty News

Whitney Phillips, the SOJC’s John L. Hulteng Endowed Chair in Media Ethics and Responsibility, told NPR that social posts from the Trump administration paint liberals as the “ultimate evil.”
Damian Radcliffe, the SOJC’s Chambers Professor in Journalism, wrote an article for Journalism UK on how to get the most out of LinkedIn's potential for networking, job hunting, and researching.
SOJC students gain hands-on experience in hostage diplomacy, advocacy and press freedom through a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary course with real-world impact.
Seth Lewis, SOJC journalism director, writes in Nieman Lab that allowing AI to handle routine writing tasks frees up journalists to step off the hamster wheel and focus more on reflection and engagement.
SOJC Interim Dean Regina Lawrence has created a toolkit through the Local News Impact Consortium for organizations and researchers who want to glean insight into their local news ecosystems.
Lauren Kessler, an SOJC professor emerit and award-winning author, has written an article for Lookout Eugene-Springfield about food insecurity in Lane County, which has a higher-than-average poverty rate.
After recent attacks on the student press, SOJC Professor of Practice Lori Shontz sat for an interview with The Daily Emerald about the future of student journalism on college campuses.
Ed Madison, SOJC associate professor of journalism, teaches students to embrace AI, but with a skeptical mind. He created an AI tool to guide journalism students through the creation of news articles.
Whitney Phillips, SOJC associate professor, said the media was never the far-left monolith conservatives claimed it to be. Phillips has written six books on information manipulation.
Students in Professor Andrew DeVigal’s Engaged Journalism class use data to find out how local journalism can foster community connection. DeVigal is director of the SOJC’s Agora Journalism Center.