Why Iowa?
When you graduate from the SJMC, you will become part of an alumni network that numbers in the thousands and spans media industries in the United States and around the globe.
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Ricky Brandt
(B.A. 2014)
VP, Group Account Director at Havas
Sylvia Clubb
(B.A. 2022)
Project Manager, Strategic Services at EGR International
Austin Hanson
(B.A. 2022)
Digital Producer and Assignment Editor at FOX59 and CBS4
Chase Bennett
(B.A. 2024)
Leadership Development Program Associate at RTX
Adler Anthem
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The award-winning student
newspaper, The Daily Iowan,
has served the UI community
since 1868
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The school celebrated its centennial in 2024
# 1
According to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings
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SJMC awards more than $225,000 in scholarships and awards annually.
News
Brian Ekdale awarded CSSI Faculty Research Fellowship
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The University of Iowa’s Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) has selected Brian Ekdale, professor of journalism and mass communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as its next CSSI Faculty Research Fellow.
Painting a Story Through Podcasting
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Students in the Adler Agency prepare to produce the second season of Pitchfork and Paintbrush.
SJMC’s Roxy Ekberg Earns Mauck Stouffer Award
Monday, February 23, 2026
Roxy Ekberg, a third-year SJMC student and the executive editor of The Daily Iowan received a Mauck Stouffer Young Iowa Journalist Award from the Iowa Newspaper Association.
Zhang's project is changing the way we see and hear the world through the Arts and Humanities Initiative grant
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Bingbing Zhang, assistant professor, in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, explores how journalists and social-media users talk about and react to what they call “AI slop”.