Timothy Arnold and Rebecca Obu received 2026 Stanley Award for International Research to support their work in Brazil and Eswatini, respectively.

SJMC doctoral students presented on-going research at the annual AEJMC Midwinter Conference.

In early March, Kevin Ripka and six SJMC students attended the annual IRE and NICAR data journalism conference.

Sang Jung Kim, Queenie Zhou, and Lei Chen recently published “’You Are Not Fat’: The Postfeminist Contradiction in #RejectBodyAnxiety—A Computationally Assisted Critical Thematic Analysis."

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.

Students in the Adler Agency prepare to produce the second season of Pitchfork and Paintbrush.

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.

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”.