Articles from March 2026
Daily Iowan Wins Online Edition Pacemaker Award
Monday, March 30, 2026
For the second time this academic year, The Daily Iowan (DI) has earned the prestigious Pacemaker Award: College news’ equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize. This time, the award applies to the online edition of the paper.
SJMC Doctoral Students Present at 2026 AEJMC Midwinter Conference
Monday, March 23, 2026
SJMC doctoral students presented on-going research at the annual AEJMC Midwinter Conference.
SJMC Students Learn about AI and Data Visualization at Annual NICAR Conference
Monday, March 16, 2026
In early March, Kevin Ripka and six SJMC students attended the annual IRE and NICAR data journalism conference.
SJMC Faculty and Graduate Students Publish New Research
Friday, March 13, 2026
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."
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.