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ESPN’s Monica McNutt, Student Jenna Bloom Selected as Merrill College’s 2025 Commencement Speakers
COLLEGE PARK — Master’s alum Monica McNutt ’13, an ESPN and MSG Networks basketball analyst, and graduating senior Jenna Bloom have been selected as the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s 2025 commencement speakers, Dean Rafael Lorente announced.
Merrill College’s Local News Network Selects 2025 Summer Intern Class
COLLEGE PARK — The Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism has selected its 2025 class of interns who will spend the summer working at local news outlets.
Truth Under Siege: Building Information Resilience
Friday, April 11, 2025, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Knight Hall, University of Maryland, College ParkWhat is the future of American democracy when seeing isn't believing? In an era of disinformation, it becomes increasingly difficult for citizens to tell fact from fiction. Why do lies seem to travel faster than the truth? When does debunking falsehoods work, and when does it backfire? How do we set the record straight when two-thirds of surveyed news consumers don't trust the news media much, or at all?