Points of Pride - College of Arts and Media

  • Carl Corey, a 1976 Cinema and Photography alumnus, received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. Corey has more than 100 awards from photography and publishing communities with his work featured in many of photography’s most prestigious periodicals.

  • Kathy Best, a 1979 alumna of the School of Journalism and editor at the Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Mont., was the editor at the Seattle Times and part of a team at the newspaper that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for work on a March 2014 landslide that killed 43 people and follow-up reporting.

  • “alt.news 26:46,” the student-produced television magazine program, has won seven College Television Awards and 31 regional Emmys.

  • William Freivogel, School of Journalism, earned the 2016 Silver Gavel Award for Other Media from the American Bar Association for his series of online St. Louis Public Radio news stories, “Law, Justice and the Death of Michael Brown.” The series examined events in the aftermath of the August 2014 shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

  • “In the Shadow,” a one-hour documentary created by professionals and students in the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts that looked at the run-up to the Great American Eclipse in Southern Illinois on Aug. 21, 2017, has been accepted into the River Town Film Festival in Clinton, New Jersey, Sept. 7-9.

  • “The Tragedy of Bataan,” a documentary by Jan Thompson, radio, television, and digital media, won a regional Emmy award for writing and two Emmy nominations in music and historical documentary categories.

  • Media scholar Jyotsna Kapur, cinema and photography, continues to advance understanding of the connections between political economy and the cinema. Her new book is “The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India: Bargaining with Capital.”

  • A partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting gives students in the School of Journalism the opportunity to report on global issues through reporting fellowships. Recent work includes reporting on the continuing impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, children’s homes for abandoned youth in El Salvador, and rural education issues in Peru.

  • The student-run newspaper, The Daily Egyptian, continues to earn awards, as the newspaper celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2016.

  • New Media Research Group, made up of tenure-track professors and graduate students in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, researches the impact of social media on traditional media and society.  The group has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals.