Alumni Spotlight: Lara Zwiebel
Landing a job in New York City is a dream for many students and a dream-come-true for class of 2021 advertising alumna Lara Zwiebel.
College hosts reception for students and family at annual event
More than 50 family members of students in the College of Information and Communications attended the college's Family Weekend reception held in conjunction with the university's celebration.
Former television anchor now sparks love of nature for children
It’s been a long road from journalism to children’s books for Angela McCurry May, an alumna of the College of Information and Communications. She always planned to report the news — and she has. Now, she is also making the news as a New York Times bestselling children’s book co-author.
Green elected president of national information science organization
As president of ALISE, Lucy Santos Green hopes to advance diversity and inclusion in the field of library and information sciences.
UofSC sorority’s viral video attracts millions of views
A TikTok video created by a UofSC sorority has accumulated 7.9 million views, making it one of the most-watched videos in the popular TikTok genre of #RushTok.
iSchool hosts International Association of School Librarianship Hybrid Conference
The 2022 International Association of School Librarianship Conference and Research Forum brought together 200 scholars and practitioners representing more than 40 countries.
Free Adobe workshops for CIC students
Registration is open for majors in the College of Information and Communications to learn some of the Adobe suite software -- including InDesign, Spark, Photoshop and Premiere -- in free one-day workshops taught by faculty.
Royal Roots: Former Miss Gamecock competes for Miss USA Crown
School of Journalism and Mass Communications graduate and former Miss Gamecock, Meera Bhonslé will compete for the title of Miss USA on Oct. 3.
News interns expand horizons
Meet two journalism students — master's student Lauren Pringle and junior Caleb Bozard — who interned at the Times and Democrat this summer.
Advertising professor studies connection between emotions, media messages
In an era when facts are discounted while highly improbable information is accepted as gospel, Taylor Wen is looking at how our emotions affect the way we process communication.
New staff senate president Rushondra James begins term
CIC Assistant Dean Rushondra James begins her term as staff senate president July 1, but she never planned to take on the role — or even to stay at UofSC for very long.
Alumni Spotlight: Arlington Johnson
Arlington Johnson used his bachelor's in information science from South Carolina in 2020 to get his career off the ground — first as a flight instructor for Auburn University and soon as a pilot for Envoy Air in.
Ken Baldwin: A tribute
Kenneth W. Baldwin Jr., one of the most dedicated benefactors of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, died Monday at the age of 96.
CreateAthon@UofSC seeking nonprofits in need of marketing communications
The University of South Carolina is accepting applications from area nonprofits for the annual CreateAthon@UofSC, scheduled for Nov. 4 at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Selected nonprofits receive free communication materials including websites, brochures, letterheads, business cards, logos, posters, press releases and more.
Students learn to find the human experience in business journalism
The Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Initiative is changing the mold, encouraging students to embrace a form of business journalism that goes beyond the numbers. Just in its fourth year, this program has evolved quickly and led two journalism students, Connor Hart and Emma Dooling, to win multiple awards.
How to brainstorm brilliant ideas in teams - without sliding into 'group think'
Sharing ideas can get messy when colleagues don't understand or support novel concepts - or if they shut them down altogether. Visual communications professor Sabrina Habib writes for The Conversation on concrete ways to facilitate idea generation, both individually and in groups.
Alumna selected as 2022-24 RBS-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow
Patrice Green, MLIS alumna and curator for African American collections at Penn State University Libraries, has been selected as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural Heritage by the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Green joins the cohort of 15 fellows chosen from a highly competitive field of applications.
Countries with lower-than-expected vaccination rates show unusually negative attitudes to vaccines on Twitter
Journalism and mass communications professor Jungmi Jun writes for The Conversation on the influence emotions toward vaccines may have on whether a person decides to get a COVID-19 vaccination or not.
Two UofSC alumni part of Pulitzer-winning journalism teams
University of South Carolina alumni Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post and Win McNamee of Getty Images are both part of teams that were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in journalism on May 9.
Photojournalist alumnus wins Pulitzer Prize
In his nearly 40-year career as a photojournalist, Win McNamee has documented world history and national calamity — and periodically found himself in the thick of the action.
The man behind the mascot
If you need a secret kept, May 2022 mass communications graduate James Smithwick is your guy — that’s because he’s kept a big secret for most of his time at the University of South Carolina.
World Press Freedom Day unfolds on social media
UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd was mentioned in social media 273,000 times and seen many times more, according to an analysis by the Social Media Insights Lab at the University of South Carolina in the United States.
Recapping the iSchool 50th Anniversary Celebration
The School of Information Science celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 30 with a keynote address by former NASA Chief Charles Bolden, Jr. We've recapped it here in video and photos.
No better time
“I’ve leaned over students’ shoulders or sat side-by-side to deconstruct ledes, add context, debate bias, ponder impact,” says retiring Senior Semester instructor Carolyn Click. “It is alternately tedious and exhilarating, this business of deploying the English language to explain, with authority, what’s going on in our corner of the world. I hope I made some small difference.”
SJMC presents honors and awards to outstanding students
Students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications were recognized and awarded for their involvement and academic achievements at an awards reception Thursday, April 21.