Student News

Journalism students attend UNITY convention in Chicago
Three UW journalism students attended the 2008 UNITY convention July 23-27 in Chicago. UNITY is a coalition of the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Native American Journalists Association. Read reflections on the conference from Anusha Ghosh Roy, Erica Metzler and William Kim.

Posted 8.5.08

News lab students visit with Seattle Times' Terry Tazioli
Karen Rathe's news lab class had a chance to tour The Seattle Times in the spring and talk with travel editor Terry Tazioli. Tazioli, who is incoming president of the Department of Communication Alumni Club, stressed to students the importance of honesty in good journalism and recounted for students one of his first assignments — a profile on Miss Teen Missouri. Learn more about how Tazioli wrote the story here.

Posted 7.29.08

Press and politics students volunteer as poll workers
Two students in Taso Lagos' American press and politics class, Ann Litowitz and Ryan Mielcarek, will volunteer as poll workers in the upcoming elections. The students appeared in a King 5 news story June 25 about the King County Elections Department and its preparations for record voter turnouts, starting with the Aug. 19 primary. The county is trying to recruit young workers.

Posted 6.27.08

Foreign intrigue intern keeping blog in Cambodia
Follow along with journalism foreign intrigue scholarship recipient Keith Vance as he blogs about his experiences in Cambodia. Vance is working at the Cambodian Daily. Read about his impressions here.

Posted 6.26.08

2008 graduates honored during celebration
The Communication Department honored its 2008 graduates at a ceremony on June 12 in the HUB Ballroom. See pictures from the event here.

Posted 6.16.08

Design students visit Seattle Medium Newspaper Group, tour printing press
UW Publication Design students visited The Seattle Medium Newspaper Group in the Central District to tour the home base of four radio stations, four newspapers and a printing press. Chris B. Bennett, co-publisher and editor who spoke with the students, called his father’s creation a “community potpourri of media outlets.”

The newspapers include not only the flagship Seattle Medium, founded in 1970, but also the Portland Medium, the Tacoma True Citizen and the Seattle Metro Homemaker. In addition, the company owns and operates radio station KBMS-AM in Portland and three AM stations in Seattle collectively known as the Z-Twins: KRIZ, KZIZ and KYIZ. Read more about the students' visit.

Posted 6.10.08

First-generation Filipino American student recognized
Angeline Candido, who is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in both communications and English, received the EOP Endowed Scholar award at a celebration hosted by The Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program and the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity on May 7. Candido is the first in her Filipino family to attend college in the United States and she has been honored as a Mary Gates Scholar and worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant. She is exploring the significance of language and human interactions and is engaged in a research project exploring the history of Filipinos in Seattle and at the UW. Read more about Angeline Candido in Northwest Asian Weekly.

Posted 6.5.08

Career Center highlights student's achievements
Junior communication major Anna Norman is highlighted in the Career Center's June newsletter (at the bottom in the My Story section). Norman spent fall quarter 2007 interning with ABC News on the hit shows Primetime and 20/20.

Posted 6.2.08

UW students finalists for national SPJ awards
Meaghan Peters and Camden Swita, from the University of Washington, were national finalists in the Society of Professional Journalists 2007 Mark of Excellence awards. They received finalist recognition in the breaking news category for their reporting of the story, "UW staff member slain in Gould Hall."

Posted 6.2.08

Awards recognize student excellence
Judges chose Kassra Oskooii, who spoke on “Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center” as the winner of this year’s Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence in Public Speaking. Other finalists who spoke at the Department of Communication Undergraduate Excellence in Communication awards May 29 were Mike Foote (second place) and Archita Taylor (third place).

Public speaking contest judges were alumni:

• Glenn Kuper, communications directors at the Washington state Office of Financial Management
  
• Greg Lane, president of TVW
  
• Jeannine Blue Lupton, assistant regional director for public affairs for U.S. Department of Labor

The Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research went to:

• Political Communication: Jessica Ackley, Alex King, Jessica Smith
  
• Technology and Society: Courtney Hampson, Kathryn Pursch, Katie Silva
  
• Social Interaction: Mary Gilmer
  
• Media Institutions, Organization and Structure: Jessie Culbert, Eric Fitzgerald
  
• International Communication: Karina Seyler, Shu Shen
  
• Rhetoric and Critical Studies: Camille Elmore, Sharon Kim, Erica Waliser

Pioneer Newspapers Excellence in Journalism Awards went to:

• Diversity: Chantal Anderson
  
• Community: Erica Metzler
• Features: Anna Norman
• Design: Holly Gordon
• Legislative: Yekaterina Yefimova
• Politics: Will Mari
• Politics: Devon Mills
• Global Health: Molly Talbert

Judges for the Pioneer Awards were:

• Mike Gugliotto, COO, Pioneer Newspapers
  
• Suki Dardarian, managing editor of The Seattle Times
  
• Eleanor Lee, editor of NW Asian Weekly
  
• Wayne Lynch, news director, NW Cable News Network
  
• Tom Koenninger, journalist, Columbian, retired
  
• Carol Vu, editor at Microsoft
  
• Marian Liu, reporter at The Seattle Times

Posted 6.2.08

Communication graduate students present spring conference
Graduate students will present their research on Saturday, May 31 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The schedule:

Panel 1: News, Discourse & Representation
10-11:15 a.m.
Presenters:

• Teri Whitney, "Hurricane Katrina: How the Print Media Frame Reality Through Storytelling”
• Manoucheka Celeste, "Picturing Hugo Chàvez Frias: A Visual Analysis of Venezuela’s President”
• Amanda Ballantyne, “Specters of Scarcity and Flood: Can Crude Discourse Save the Planet?”

Panel 2: Media, Politics & Social Movements
11:25 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
Presenters:

• Amoshaun Toft, “Constructing Collectivity in Social Movement Networks: Discourses, Technologies and Repertoires of Action,”
• Colin Lingle, “Strategic Truths: The Political Blogosphere and ABC’s ‘The Path to 9/11,’”
• Brian Cozen, “Representing Your Representative: Signification and MadTV’s ‘Obama’ Skit”

Panel 3: Race, Culture & Communication
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Presenters:

• Tabitha Hart, “Challenging Orientalism in John Jeffcoat’s ‘Outsourced’”
• Li Liu, “Language Usage and Topic Selection in Multi-Cultural Organizational Setting:
  Exploring Influence from Societal Culture”
• Rebecca Clark, “White Hegemony in Third Wave Feminism: Interrogating the Postmodern
  Discourses of Contradiction, Difference, and Hybridity”
• Vanessa Au, “’Miso Pretty’: A case for reconsidering post-modern post-race celebrations of
  kitsch”

Reception
3-4 p.m.

Undergraduates, faculty and other departments are welcome.

Posted 5.29.08

Students receive scholarships
The Department of Communication awarded 30 scholarships to undergraduate recipients on May 8 in Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room. Among the presenters were alums Don Kraft, Beth Erickson, and Robert Philip, as well as The Seattle Times' Will Blethen, Sally Hanson of the Northwest Automotive Press Association and George Riddell of Ad Club Seattle. The Northwest Asian Weekly published an article on the event. See photos from the event and find out more about the scholarship recipients.

Posted: 5.9.08

Students release webzine on media and international relations
Volume 2, Issue 1 of Communications and International Relations has hit the newsstands. Written by the students in COM321/POLS330, this online magazine explores a range of topics related to the roles of media in international affairs. Issues 2 and 3 will be out later this year. Check it out.

Posted: 5.7.08

SeattlePoliticore

A group of 16 journalism students are working in teams, in a class by Professor David Domke, to cover the 2008 presidential campaign. The students have been writing for their blog, www.seattlepoliticore.org, and for the Seattle Times, the Idaho Statesman, and online news site huffingtonpost.com. On Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, the students went to Idaho to cover a Democratic Party caucus in Coeur d’Alene (there are no Republican caucuses in Idaho), and in the following days covered the presidential campaign as it came to Washington state. On Feb. 9, students covered Democratic and Republican caucuses at several locations in King County and the results from the headquarters of both parties. On Feb. 19, students covered the primaries in Washington state.

The students have received University support to travel to Texas to cover the state’s primary and caucuses on March 4. Students will be reporting live from Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and surrounding areas Feb. 29 through March 5 - as the campaigns head toward what might be the defining moment for both Democrats and Republicans. In this coverage, the UW students will partner with University of Texas students who write for the Daily Texan, and will spend time in some UT journalism courses, talking about their experiences. Upon returning, students will take on their final task for the quarter - turning their online content into an offline publication.

Here's a piece by David Domke in crosscut.com about this project.

Here’s a short video one of the students made about the trip and coverage in Idaho.

Here’s a short video by students of their coverage of a caucus in the Magnolia neighborhood in Seattle - a caucus attended by Washington governor Christine Gregoire, who the students interviewed.

Here’s a blog post by one student on her voting experience on primary day.

Here’s some reflections by two students (here and here) on covering the campaigns as they came to Seattle.

2007-2008 Flip Wilson Scholarship Essay

Amara Russell is the winner of the 2007-08 Flip Wilson Scholarship. Russell is a senior majoring in Journalism, with a minor in Law, Society and Justice. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has enjoyed living in Seattle for the past three years while studying at the UW. She is an intern at KIRO Newsradio and is interning for KOMO's talk show Northwest Afternoon both Winter and Spring quarters. She wants to pursue a career in television production so that she can help change the stereotypical portrayals of minorities in the media. She writes that she "is honored to be a recipient of the 2007 Flip Wilson Scholarship and believes that he was a trailblazer in the advancement of people of color in the entertainment industry."

Posted: 12.10.07

Professor Nancy Rivenburgh's evening degree students produced a web magazine for their fall quarter class. Check out the portal link, for Issues I, II and III (Issue III will be available the week of December 17, 2007).

Posted: 12.10.07

Graduate Student Scholarships, Autumn 2007

Peg Achterman: Madeline Jones Campbell Scholarship

Toby Campbell: Elizabeth Ayers Scholarship

Jessica Harvey: Anderson-Schuler Scholarship and Carrie Cowgill-Thompson Scholarship

Posted: 11.13.07

The Journalism Foreign Intrigue Scholarship

This program was established by a UW Journalism alum, and provides financial support for a journalism student to work as a intern reporter at a foreign newspaper and to travel after the internship. The donor's goal is to give journalism students an exposure to another culture and a more thorough understanding of journalism and culture.

In 2007 - scholarship recipients are interning at three newspapers: Tiffany Wan at the Jakarta Post (Indonesia), Michael Carter at AWOKO (Freetown, Sierre Leone) and Maureen Trantham at the Shanghai Star (China).

Read more about the interns on their travel blogs:

Tiffany Wan at the Jakarta Post

Maureen Trantham at the Shanghai Star

Michael Carter at Awoko, in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Read more about the scholarship and its recipients...

Peg Achterman's "The Good of Life through the Viewfinder" featured in NPPA magazine
Posted: 10.15.07

Lew Witham visits Newslab
Posted: 08.30.07

Communication Students Abroad in Greece, Summer 2007
Posted: 08.30.07

PhD student Peg Achterman spoke at the Women in Photojournalism Conference August, 2007, and was quoted on the National Press Photographers Association web site.

Posted: 08.30.07

Mike Henderson taught a course on Travel Literature and Travel Writing in Rome last winter quarter. The travel section in the Seattle Times carried a selection of student articles.

Posted: 08.20.07

Rome around the clock: UW (Communication) students offer tips (at the Seattle Times)
Posted: 08.17.07

University of Washington sophomore and Communication major Kailey Tollefson was awarded a Sally Heet Memorial Scholarship as outstanding student pursuing a public relations career. The $2,500 scholarship was awarded by the Puget Sound Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). A second Heet scholarship was awarded to a WSU student.

The Sally Heet Scholarship was established in memory of PRSA member Sally Heet, who was killed in 1985 in Washington, D.C. while serving as press secretary to Senator Dan Evans. 2007 marks the 20th year of the scholarship.

Posted: 07.05.07

Two current students nabbed top prizes at the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition. Manuel Valdes nabbed a first place (for Minorities reporting category) and a second (for Personalities category). Under the 25,000 or less category of newspapers. Melissa Santos nabbed an Honorable Mention in the Consumer category at the 25,000 to 60,000 newspaper circulation category. Communication students Asli Omur, Steven Friederich and Sarah Kahne also received awards, as did alumni Chantell Lusebrink, Megan Doyle, Kaylynn Kelley, Autumn Koepp, Caroline Li, Sarah Haas, Chad Coleman, Travis Hay, and Mike Cane.

Posted: 06.26.07

Communication undergraduates Whitney Tyner and Marissa Wilkie are the 2007 recipients of the prestigious Association for Women in Communications scholarship awarded by the AWC Seattle Professional chapter. Scholarships recipients are honored at a June dinner being held at the Seattle Yacht Club this year.

Posted: 05.02.07

Graduate Student Adrienne Massanari quoted in a recent Seattle Weekly article on music Web sites and social networking.
Posted: 04.23.07

Students Honored at the 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship Awards
Posted: 04.17.07

Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards-Winners include UW journalism student Manuel Valdes

Valdes received awards for In-Depth and Features reporting

Posted: 04.06.07

Graduate students Irina Gendelman and Giorgia Aiello's Urban Archives Project in the Seattle Times
Posted: 03.27.07

Communication Senior Returns from White House

Victoria Barq, a UW senior majoring in Communication and Political Science, last autumn completed an internship at the White House, where she worked with members of the Republican National Committee and the Office of Political Affairs (OPA).

Posted: 02.21.07

Students in the Department of Communication Rome Center program posed Feb. 8 with guest speaker Sylvia Poggioli, the Peabody Award-winning National Public Radio Chief Europe Correspondent.

In the larger photo, from left: Roya Zahed, Jared Chu, Erin Launius, Wade Gurnett, Lindsey Egleston, Nicole Bukoskey, Ms. Poggioli, Bryan Thompson, Regina Atendido, Ellen Kwon.

Posted: 02.21.07

UW Communication Journalism student Manuel Valdes placed 14th in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation's In-Depth Writing Competition.

Posted: 01.30.07

2006-2007 Flip Wilson Scholarship Essay
Posted: 08.08.06

2006 Graduate Student Achievements
Posted: 06.14.06

Blythe Lawrence - Hearst Journalism finalist
Posted: 05.04.06

2006 Department of Communication Scholarship Awards
Posted: 04.24.06

"Elephant Turf War"
Posted: 03.09.06

Autumn 2005 Honors Presentations
Posted 01.13.05

Communication major Leoule Goshu named "Future Gay Hero" in the October 11th, 2005 edition of The Advocate, the international LGBT news magazine...
Posted: 12.08.05
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Graduate Student Projects
Posted: 11.22.05

Two UW (Communication) students from Shoreline named homecoming royalty
Posted 11.16.05

2005-2006 Flip Wilson Scholarship Essay
Updated: 10.28.05

Student Work Exhibited at the 30th annual American Indian Film Festival
Posted: 10.18.05

Journalism Student meets the President of Ireland
Posted: 10.17.05

Student News, Summer 2005
Updated: 07.26.05

2004 Undergraduate Scholarship Winners

11.19.04: Dr. Richard Meyer, former CEO of KCTS-TV, WAMU-FM and the North Texas Public Broadcasting in Dallas as well as a scholar of Chinese silent films, visited professor Tony Chan's Globalization, Media and Culture seminar in regional communications (CMU 561). Dr. Meyer was the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Telecommunications (and endowed chair) at Ball State University. Before that he was Fulbright scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He received is B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford and his Ph.D. from New York University.

Professor Chan's students learned about the impact of globalization on media, social justice and social inequality in the African nation of Burkina Faso.

Saran Nason, the 2004-05 Flip Wilson Scholarship Winner
Posted 10.01.04

08.27.04: Laura Cruikshank, a journalism student and transfer from Wenatchee Valley College, is a 2004 winner of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. A divorced mother of three boys, Laura returned to school at 42. She spent an admirable two years at Wenatchee Community College, earning a 3.75 average and election into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society. She also started a college newspaper, Wenatchee Valley College's first student paper in nearly 15 years. Read more about Laura.

2004 Graduate Student Recognition (In M.A./Ph.D. Section)
Posted: 06.07.04

04.26.04: EOP 2004 Scholarship Award recipient Alexis Watson is a senior graduating this spring with a degree in communications, specifically Rhetoric and critical thinking. She plans to take a year off before applying to graduate school for public policy and possibly a concurrent degree in law. Ultimately, she would like to work with under-resourced and underrepresented youth and their families implementing policy changes within the educational and urban communities.

04.20.04:Communication major Leoule A. Goshu participates in the annual National Day of Silence on Thursday, April 21 2004. Seattle Times Article | SGN Article

Graduate Student Poster Session / Scholar Slam
Posted: 11.17.03

Autumn Quarter Student News
Updated: 11.14.03

Autumn Quarter Graduate Student Honors
Updated: 11.05.03

Best in Show: Grad Student Kathy Hall Wins Prestigious Award
Posted: 10.06.03 3:15

Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students
Posted: 10.03.03 11:00

Profile of COM Graduates
Posted: 05.30.03 12:00
By Billy Etter, Dept. of Communication

Spring Quarter 2003 Student Achievements