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Letter from the Director

Minnesota Journalism Center

Silha Center for Media Ethics and Law

Institute for New Media Studies

The Minnesota Daily

Faculty Update

Student Update

Development Update

Alumni Notes

Creatively Confronting the World:
Global Learning and Study Abroad
By its very nature, mass communication is global, and students in the SJMC have always been encouraged to examine their subject from multiple perspectives. But as technology continues to shrink the world at ever-increasing speed and world economies and cultures become increasingly interdependent, it has become even more important for students to understand mass communication from an international perspective. Read the story.

Learning From the Pros:
SJMC’s Adjunct Instructors
Every year, more than twenty industry experts—professional journalists, graphic designers, advertising and public relations executives among them—join the faculty in Murphy Hall, bringing real-world experience and cutting-edge professional practice techniques with them. Read the story.

One Program, Two Professionals, Two Continents, One Disease
Kay Schwebke, M.D., and Mariah Carroll, both students in the SJMC’s Health Journalism M.A. program, are both passionate about fighting HIV/AIDS. They’re fighting the disease on two different fronts: Schwebke as a physician and director of an HIV clinic at HCMC; and Carroll as a photojournalist in the AIDS-ravaged communities of Kampala, Uganda. Read the story.

Leading the Pack
The discipline of mass communication is evolving at light-speed, and graduates of the SJMC’s doctoral program are leading that evolution. Read the story.