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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
The former astronaut and NASA administrator Bolden, whose mother was a barrier-breaking school librarian and library educator, will give the keynote address on Saturday, April 30 at 2 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom.
The iSchool will host the 2022 Augusta Baker Lecture on April 22 at 6 p.m. in conjunction with Richland Library's Baker's Dozen Storytelling Festival. This year's lecture will be delivered by Jeanie Austin, focusing on their new ALA Neal-Schuman book, Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access.
You’re invited! Save the date for our 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 30, featuring keynote speaker Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr.
Romance, historical fiction, sci-fi — for young adult novelist and public relations alumna Shanna Miles, it’s all fair game. It’s also rocket fuel for the imagination, whether she’s typing up the next interstellar adventure or turning kids on to reading and writing as a virtual school librarian.
By adding minors in sports media, social media and informatics, the College of Information and Communications is ensuring UofSC students remain competitive in the digital age.
Social media posts about the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team’s national championship have been seen more than 500 million times, according to a new analysis by the university’s Social Media Insights Lab.
Jabari Evans studies the messages that media produce about the representation of race and how that can impact marginalized groups, particularly the Black community. Check out his interview with The Conversation.
Meet Serena Harn, an award-winning information science student, who said she chose this area of study because there was an "entire school designed just for my major!"
The School of Information Science honored students, faculty and alumni leaders at the 37th Deans' and Directors' Lecture and Awards ceremony on March 18.
Registration is open for majors in the College of Information and Communications to learn Adobe Creative Cloud programs — including InDesign, Spark, Photoshop and Premiere — in free one-day workshops taught by faculty and staff.
Carolina News & Reporter multimedia students won 14 awards, including seven first-place awards, in the 2021 South Carolina Press Association collegiate competition. The student winners took the Senior Semester capstone course in the spring or fall of 2021.
Diplomat Lee Satterfield, journalism '89, missed her first stop but ended up just where she wanted.
This week, three University of South Carolina broadcast alumni came home as part of the Good Morning America takeover at Colonial Life Arena.
Dean Emeritus Charles Bierbauer, a former Moscow correspondent for ABC News, has been watching the war in Ukraine unfold through the eyes of journalist and SJMC alumna Isabelle Khurshudyan. He discusses how war reporting has evolved since the 70s and the threats journalists today still face.
The College of Information and Communications will host the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Symposium on March 18 in the Hollings Program Room at Thomas Cooper Library. Michelle Martin will give the keynote address.
The first thing that jumps off the page when you scan Ida Williams Thompson's resumè is the copious list of awards she has won. Read how this iSchool alumna went from an aspiring medical student to an award-winning librarian.