As the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread ahead of the 2020-21 academic year, the University of Iowa made the decision to move a majority of classes online. While it has presented challenges and removed the in-person experience for most students, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has adjusted well to the “new normal”.

Watch for Professor Meenakshi Gigi Durham's new book, "MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media," to be released in April 2021 in the UK and June 2021 in the United States.

Say you want to watch a news clip about Confederate monuments. You search YouTube and choose a video from what appears to be a randomly generated list of results. When the video ends, YouTube autoplays another video and recommends dozens more—and likely they’re the sort of thing you actually might watch, because that list is generated by algorithms that process your YouTube viewing history; the videos, tweets, and posts you’ve liked on social media; and your behavior elsewhere on the web. Seems helpful, right? What’s the problem?

Tully has been awarded funding from the Waterhouse Family Institute at Villanova University to test ways to address COVID-19 misinformation on social media in Kenya and Senegal.

Senior Jack Martin reviews the new Netflix original documentary in which “tech experts sound the alarm on the dangerous human impact of social networking.”

In an era of technological innovation and mass interconnectedness, there’s never been a better time to turn your passions into a career. For Chloé Miller, a 2012 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communications, her fervour for entrepreneurship has led to the creation of three companies.

Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw, a 2020 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has recently begun a position as a multimedia journalist for Local 4, WHBF & KLJB Fox News located in the Quad Cities.

The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually by SJMC’s Professional Advisory Board (PAB).

Bruno Robert Torres, was a long time news photographer and photo bureau manager for United Press International (UPI). He worked 32 years for UPI in St. Louis, Chicago, and Houston, until UPI declared bankruptcy and laid off nearly all of its staff in 1991. Bruno said it was “one of the most interesting jobs in the world.”

The Society of Professional Journalists has chosen Stephen G. Bloom as recipient of the Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award. Bloom is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.