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.

Fourth-year advertising major Mary Pham is one of just two students nationwide to receive the 2025 Saatchi Scholarship, a $10,000 award paired with a year-long mentorship with Saatchi & Saatchi.
A new memoir by SOJC journalism alum Francesca Fontana ’17 received a positive review in the New York Times. The book, “The Family Snitch,” delves into Fontana’s complicated relationship with her dad.
The entire 17-member broadcast crew for the B1G+ Duck women’s basketball game Feb. 4—from the producer to the on-air talent—was comprised of women to mark National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
A book by journalism alum Jonathan Bach ’16 has been nominated for a 2026 Oregon Book Award. “High Desert, Higher Costs” explores the housing affordability crisis in Bend.
SOJC Professor of Practice Damian Radcliffe has been honored with the Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy for demonstrating outstanding achievement and expertise in teaching.
Students in Allen Hall Advertising, a student-run ad agency, were among the nearly 500 UO participants in the Sustainable City Year Program in Oakridge, where students work on real-world problems.
SOJC Journalism Director Seth Lewis joined the Age of AI podcast to talk about how AI is shaping core ideas in journalism about authorship, creativity, trust, and professional identity.
SOJC Interim Dean Regina Lawrence’s Local News Ecosystem Toolkit helps researchers build a better baseline of data to help understand news deserts, writes the industry magazine Editor & Publisher.
The Center for Community News in Vermont has named Twange Kasoma ’07, an alum of the SOJC’s Communication and Society PhD program, a faculty champion. She is an associate professor at Appalachian State University.
SOJC photojournalism student Josie Brown traveled to Copenhagen to photograph how climate policy shapes everyday life. Her work was supported by the Science Communication Research Small Grant program.