journalism

Media rights groups condemn killing of Amal Khalil, who said in 2024 she had been threatened by ‘an Israeli enemy’ Middle East crisis – live updates The Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli attack on Wednesday had previously spoken of receiving a threat via an unidentified Israeli phone number that she would be killed if she did not leave southern Lebanon, where she had long been based and wo…

November 10, 2025 Chris Cillizza, an independent news creator on Substack and YouTube, will be on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for a conversation about reporting on politics and independent journalism on Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 5-6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is presented by the Richard and Leslie […]

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Hanson Hosein — an Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and communication strategist… Read More

To explain how the media and PR industries are changing and where they're set to travel in future, former editor-in-chief of Maximum PC and tech, gaming, and AI journalist Guy Cocker shares his insights on the transformation of the journalism industry, where future challenges may come and how the PR/journalist relationship is evolving. The post Technological innovation and industry transformation…

Interested in finding out how to catch the eye of a film journalist? Dan Jolin, freelance film journalist and editor of Senet magazine, has been working in the industry for over two decades, with stints as  reviews and features editor at both Total Film and Empire magazine. The post ‘You want to build good relationships with people’ – Media Interview with Dan Jolin, freelance film journalist and …

August 21, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood Alex Gonçalves believes a vibrant press is crucial to the future of democratic societies. He also knows the foundation of a dynamic media ecosystem is created in the classroom.  For that reason, it’s been his goal to work in journalism education since Gonçalves left the newsroom as a science […]

The responses from the almost 12,000 journalists surveyed suggest that newsroom diversity is a work in progress: Journalists give their news organizations mixed grades on how well they are doing in building a sufficiently diverse staff. There is broader agreement that organizations generally treat staff fairly, regardless of age, gender, or race and ethnicity. Still, […]

Walter Hickey ’12 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Monday as part of a team at Insider that used graphic illustration to report on the plight of the Uyghur community in China.

Trends in the number of statehouse reporters vary from state to state. In more than half of states – 31 – the number of statehouse reporters increased between 2014 and 2022, following the national pattern of growth in the total number of reporters covering statehouses. But about one-third of states – 16 in total – […]