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March 26, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Broadcast journalist Alison Burns ’93 will join the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s professional-track broadcast faculty as a lecturer starting in Fall 2021, Dean Lucy A. Dalglish announced. Burns has worked for four semesters as the director of Merrill...

March 24, 2021

This essay was an assignment in Mark Hyman's Sports and Society course All I wanted to do for months was write about sports. I wanted nothing more than to go to a game, feel the energy, watch an entertaining matchup and have the satisfaction of finding the perfect lede after an exhaustingly back-an...

March 24, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Vanessa Nichols-Holmes, the assistant dean for business operations at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Service Award for Outstanding Staff Member by the UMD Office of Multi-ethnic Student Education...

March 23, 2021

This essay was an assignment in Mark Hyman's Sports and Society course Working as a sports journalist is difficult enough. What about when you’re in the middle of a worldwide pandemic? Almost impossible. So, how am I, a sports journalist, succeeding amidst the coronavirus pandemic? Hard work and pe...

March 12, 2021

Capital News Service, the nonprofit, student-powered news organization run by the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, on Thursday launched a website to help Marylanders navigate the sometimes-confusing process of getting vaccinated for the coronavirus.

March 11, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Lucy A. Dalglish, dean of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has been named one of two finalists for a prestigious Scripps Howard Award in the Administrator of the Year category, the Scripps Howard Foundation and The E.W. Scripps Company announced. A te...

March 10, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) History Division has named Dr. Ira Chinoy, an associate professor at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, one of five winners of the Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in t...

March 08, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Kate DeBlasis ’21, a senior journalism major at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, took second place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s Multimedia Innovative Storytelling competition, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation announced. DeBlasis won...

March 05, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Molly Castle Work ’21, a first-year master’s student at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, placed in the White House News Photographers Association’s 2021 Eyes of History student contest. Work took third place in the “Creativity During COVID-19” video c...

February 16, 2021

Next week is Alumni Career Week at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. New this year are a series of panel discussions designed to inform students about different career paths and ways to use their journalism degrees. Monday, Feb. 22: Journalism and Law Tuesday, Feb. 23: Careers in Sports Jo...

February 11, 2021

COLLEGE PARK -- Angela Roberts ’21, a senior journalism and criminal justice double major at the University of Maryland, placed second in the Explanatory Reporting Award competition as part of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s 61st annual Journalism Awards Program. Roberts, one of 10 winners...

February 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Geographic Documentary Films announced it is partnering with acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter ("The Way I See It," "Good Trouble: John Lewis") and Trailblazer Studios on a feature documentary that sheds new light on a century-old period of intense racial conflict. Red Summ...