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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 '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.
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.”
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.
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.