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CMCI faculty agree: local news matters

April 10, 2018

Members of CMCI's faculty support the current and former employees of The Denver Post, who have taken a courageous stand against years of needless cutbacks on journalism in our state.

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CMCI Student Government

April 9, 2018

Meet the 2018-19 CMCI Student Government,

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¿Cómo Fue? A Cuban Journey at Denver Press Club

April 6, 2018

This is the story of Guillermo "Bill" Vidal, former mayor Denver, and the first immigrant to become a mayor of a major American city. Our crew of student-journalists and professional documentarians went to the island nation on a mission to travel back in time through Vidals' life.

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CMCI alumna is new voice of Denver's airport train

Feb. 28, 2018

Longtime 9News anchor Kim Christiansen (Jour'84) will be the new female voice of DIA’s “Train Call” announcements. Fellow alumna Anne Trujillo (Jour'11), a veteran broadcast news anchor at Denver 7, was also among the nominees.

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CU Boulder conference explores journalists’ role in covering race

Feb. 28, 2018

The College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder will unite journalists, media makers and scholars for the one-day conference titled Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities: Covering Race in Today’s America. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held Saturday, March 10...

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Student wins Hearst Foundation Enterprise Writing award

Feb. 27, 2018

Junior Charlotte Bowditch is one of 10 enterprise writing winners from across the country in the 58th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program . According to the Hearst Foundation, they received 122 entries in the Enterprise Writing competition from 70 schools. Bowditch's winning article, " ‘We have lost...

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CMCI alums Cheryl Preheim and Abby Chin report on 2018 Olympic Games

Feb. 16, 2018

The 2018 Winter Games are in full swing, and two CMCI alumni are in on the action.

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CMCI at the 2018 Diversity and Inclusion Summit

Feb. 13, 2018

Today, faculty from the Department of Journalism and the Department of Communication will join faculty, students, staff and the general public at in the 2018 Diversity & Inclusion Summit. CMCI-related panels The Fake News Phenomenon with Elizabeth Skewes and Pat Ferrucci 12:30p.m.-1:45p.m., UMC Glenn Miller East Ballroom The phrase “fake...

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Nonfiction 101: "Author, Author!" book panel provides publishing insight

Feb. 8, 2018

Five former Ted Scripps Fellows—David Baron, Scott Carney, Erin Espelie, Michael Kodas and Hannah Nordhaus—sat down together to discuss the whys and hows of nonfiction book writing at the first ever Center for Environmental Journalism book publishing panel.

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Tessa Diestel, senior, writes CMCI’s first journalism honors thesis

Jan. 24, 2018

Diestel is investigating the link between anti-social media and adolescent crime. The question drives her honors thesis research, in a project that will become the first such work by a journalism student since the creation of CMCI.

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