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Stewart Bainum Jr., Anuoluwapo A. Adefiwitan to Serve as Merrill's Spring 2022 Commencement Speakers
COLLEGE PARK – Stewart Bainum Jr., founder of The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, and graduating senior Anuoluwapo A. Adefiwitan will serve as the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s Spring 2022 commencement speakers, Dean Lucy Dalglish announced. Merrill College's commencement ceremony will be held May 19 at 10 a.m. at Ritchie Coliseum.
Merrill Ph.D. Candidate Carolina Velloso Wins 2021 Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Student Paper Award
COLLEGE PARK -- Ph.D. candidate Carolina Velloso has been awarded the 2021 Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Student Paper Award for the best work of journalism history presented at an academic conference by any student or faculty member at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, the award committee announced. She will receive a $1,000 honorarium.
'Imagining the Indian,' Documentary Co-Produced by Merrill's Kevin Blackistone, Appearing on Film Festival Circuit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – "Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting" -- co-produced by Kevin Blackistone, Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism -- won the Best Documentary prize at the Boston International Film Festival, and continues its film festival circuit by making its Wa