Rachel Mossberg ’10 majored in film/media and minored in both art and professional and public writing. She now works as an associate producer for MUNCHIES, VICE’s food channel.
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Allison Lantagne ’20, double major in communication studies and political science, now works as Constituent Services Coordinator for Senator Maggie Hassan.
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Hope McKinney ’21 discusses how going back to college in her twenties made her appreciate education more, and how an internship solidified her passion for journalism.
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The Radio Television Digital News Foundation named Leah Crowley ’22, a journalism and political science double major, a 2020 President’s Scholar.
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We are thrilled to welcome our new Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Leah Heilig. Her research interests focus on technical communication, disability studies, and accessibility/accessible design. “I’m interested in how communication design can be used to promote equity and access to a variety of people and technologies,” she says.
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New Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Natural Resources Science Madison Jones is the perfect example of how multiple disciplines can combine to further one another. He brings expertise in combining place-based writing with locative media for public environmental communication projects to URI.
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New Assistant Professor of Public Relations, Dr. Joon Kim, discusses his past and current research interests, what motivated him to join the Harrington School of Communication and Media, and his advice to current students.
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For online film courses this summer, URI’s Film/Media program is utilizing smartphone production kits that enable students to execute filmmaking and all aspects of production from their own personal cellphones.
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“Everybody comes to the world with their own lived experiences and their own biases,” Christiane Amanpour told several hundred viewers during the recent livestream discussion of the University of Rhode Island’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. “Our job [as journalists] is not to say we don’t have biases. Our job is to report the truth and do it objectively, despite whatever biases we may have.”
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Christiane Amanpour ’83, H ’95, will deliver the second installment of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights, hosted by the Harrington School of Communication and Media, on Thursday, July 16, at noon.
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Nicholas Kristof, with his wife and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner, Sheryl WuDunn, kicked off the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights presented Tuesday evening by the University of Rhode Island.
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The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media honors a courageous journalist with this summer’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. The series, which will be streamed live, opens Tuesday, June 16, with award-winning journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
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Joe DeLeone ‘20 currently has three podcasts that cover different components of sports broadcasting. He credits both the “technical” and “storytelling” skills he’s learned in the Harrington School of Communication and Media with helping his success.
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This fall, Assistant Professor Matt Hodler joined our Harrington School of Communication and Media’s new Sports Media and Communication program. His research explores “how meanings of gender, race, nation, dis/ability, and social class are performed, (re)produced, and remembered through sport and physical activity.”
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“URI definitely gave me the skills I need due to the flexibility of the curriculum and the ability to take all different classes,” says Alix Bryant ’18. “Taking courses in the Harrington School [of Communication and Media] helps advance you as a communicator, and it trains you to really think critically.
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