Sarah Ortiz, a public relations major at the University of Oregon, has built extensive experience in sports PR with the UO Athletic Department and the Eugene Emeralds.
An SOJC student-led organization called Snap AR Scholars is working with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to change the way people interact with the ocean to drive conservation.
Keely McMahon ’23, an SOJC advertising alum, is featured on the “This Is Oregon” podcast. She talks about working the 2024 Big Ten Football Championship for the Deutsch advertising agency.
The SOJC Bateman Case Study team received an honorable mention last month in the national contest organized by the Public Relations Student Society of America. The competition drew 45 teams.
Ammina Kothari, dean of the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Simmons University, found mentor Leslie Steeves and developed a love of teaching while earning her master’s.
Eden McCall ’24 won first place in the 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia: Digital News category, and Ana Narayan '26 won second place in the Sports Writing category.
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 alum Jill Bond ’08 has been named editor of The Register Guard, where she worked two decades earlier as an intern for the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism.
