Tymothy Brown's article about the UMass football team's struggles this season won the Robert Crowley Memorial Prize for Excellence in Collegian Column Writing.
Grace Chai's article about graduate student workers' fight for safe and clean working conditions won the Karen List Award for Excellence in Student Reporting.
Several journalism students presented research at the annual Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC) on the UMass campus. They addressed key questions about the future of journalism and its connection to the community.
About 80 percent of our department’s students have an internship during their time at UMass, and getting an interview is all part of the process. Here are ten tips for nailing the interview from two of our 2025-26 Peer Advisors, Elizabeth Lombardo and Luke Macannuco.
UMass Magazine recently spoke to Professor Steve Fox and alums divina cordeiro ’25 and Sarah Robertson '17 as part of a larger story about the importance of local news.
Journalism department Chair Rodrigo Zamith won the student-nominated Distinguished Teaching Award for his exemplary teaching, only the third UMass journalism faculty member to receive the award.