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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.
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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."
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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.
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Painting a Story Through Podcasting

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Students in the Adler Agency prepare to produce the second season of Pitchfork and Paintbrush.
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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.
Bingbing Zhang

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”.
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Ty Rushing Attends the George Washington Carver Medal Ceremony

Monday, February 16, 2026
Assistant Professor of Practice Ty Rushing participated in a panel discussion at the George Washington Carver Medal ceremony at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
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SJMC Hiring Visiting Faculty in Strategic Communication

Thursday, February 12, 2026
SJMC is hiring a visiting faculty member with proven professional experience in strategic communication, such as advertising, public relations, or digital marketing.