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The University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, as well as the 20th anniversary of the Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellowship. The center, established in 1992, has hosted the Ted Scripps Fellowships since the 1997-98 academic year. For more than two decades, the...

A group of incoming first-year CMCI students arrived on campus this past week to participate in the annual pathways to excellence in media and communication summer intensive.

Few companies can boast the type of instant brand recognition that Nike has achieved. Throughout the decades, the sports apparel and equipment giant has produced some of the most iconic advertisements worldwide. None of that intimidates Morgan Reno, a strategic communication major and senior in the University of Colorado Boulder’s...

CMCI's advising and internship offices have moved to Folsom stadium. Find them at door #110, right across from the statue of Ralphie and between gates two and three.

J. Richard Stevens is an associate professor of Media Studies in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information, where he studies popular culture, new media theory and digital media skills. He contributed to the book “Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on the Toys and Their Messages”,...

In looking at specific types of fake news articles being produced, Vargo and his team found that fake news agendas are becoming more autonomous, meaning their topics are less connected to stories featured by traditional outlets. "They’re more and more often stories that haven’t been trending or haven’t been being talked about," Vargo said. "They’re more original and that’s scary."

Media Studies' founding chair opines powerfully on Islam. "My existential crisis as a Muslim man haunts me to the core of my being. Amid the horrendous nihilism of Isis, the dull orthodoxy of self-proclaimed custodians of Islam and the culture of fear in the west which sees everything Muslim as pure evil, I seek an answer to a simple and unasked question: how does it feel to be Muslim today?"

Communication associate professor Phaedra C. Pezzullo’s new article for the National Communication Association’s website takes a deep look at the messages sent in the United States’ recent withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

Journalism professor and director of the Center for Environmental Journalism, Tom Yulsman, recently had his article “On Thin Ice” published in bioGraphic magazine. The story follows a group of researchers studying changes in sea ice in the Arctic.

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a three-year, $500,000 grant to the Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) to support an investigation of the changing nature of religious scholarship in the digital age.