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Introducing Our New Undergraduate Curriculum

14th ISOJ Recap and Highlights

More than 370 exhausted media executives, journalists and scholars took time out from the nonstop media coverage to attend the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ). Much of the two-day conference focused on social media in the context of the bombing, as well as digital disruption.

Prof Hosts New App Building Class

This semester, more than 20 journalism and computer science students entered senior journalism lecturer Robert Quigley’s new Mobile News App Design class. All of them leave the class as developers, with an app either already in the Apple App Store or on its way.

Former M.A. Student Wins Emmy Award

Former UT Photojournalism M.A. student Rebecca Davis, Senior Multimedia Editor at Today.com, which is part of NBC news, recently won an Emmy Award for her 10th anniversary 9/11 video.

Student Selected For News21 Fellowship

Forrest Burnson, a graduate Master's professional track student, will be among 24 student journalists from 12 universities around the country chosen to conduct a national investigative reporting project on post-9/11 veterans as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 in-depth journalism program this summer.
Two Grad Students Win DMN Fellowships

Nick Swartsell and David Barer have won the inaugural Dallas Morning News fellowships. Nick will be going to the Washington bureau and David to Austin. They’ll be working for and with some of the best editors and reporters in the news business for the next year.

Professor Featured On NPR and NYTimes

Photojournalism professor Donna De Cesare was recently featured on NPR's "The Picture Show" blog. Her new bilingual book, Unsettled: Children In A World Of Gangs, includes 145 black-and-white images and a first-person narrative, spanning those 30 years of reportage. The article was written by a former UT J-School grad student.

Student Chosen For European Fellowship

Beth Cortez-Neavel, a UT J-School grad student, is one of the 14 journalism students chosen by FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) to participate in a two-week program in New York, Germany, and Poland in May 2013. This is the second year in a row at UT student has been chosen.

Doctoral Student Honored By TIPA

Kathleen McElroy, a University of Texas at Austin doctoral student, has been honored with a place in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Hall of Fame. The Hall honors individuals who have distinguished themselves, earned recognition, established a professional reputation and upheld the highest standards in their chosen field.

We strive to give our students the tools they need to explore career opportunities & the expanding new-media frontier – reporting, writing & multimedia skills, as well as those designed for the application of critical thinking, context-building & ethics.

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