June 2020 - News Articles

Daniel Han’s article and photographs of an event held in Newark, N.J. to protest the murder of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers was published by TAP Into Westfield.

Stewart, who served as interim chair of the department in fall, 2019, and whose research focuses on prevention campaigns using both mediated and interpersonal strategies to reduce dangerous drinking among undergraduate students, will become chair effective July 1, 2020.

Jordan will begin her tenure as the new chair on July 1, 2020. Jordan studies the role of media in the lives of children and families.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, the news media has been in high demand, but the very crisis that news outlets were covering dealt a body blow to the economy and threw tens of thousands of journalists out of work.

Comedy helps contribute to social change when done in the right way.

Greer’s scholarship profoundly impacted the field of library and information science. In a Q&A with SC&I Professor Emeritus Dan O’Connor, one of Greer’s students and a lifelong colleague, SC&I explores Greer’s years at Rutgers and how Rutgers was instrumental in pioneering his work and teaching.

The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) will attend and present at ALA Virtual 2020 on June 24-26. According to the conference website, the three-day event sends a strong message that the library community can and will remain connected during this unprecedented time.

The Library Journal honors Murphy for her “creativity, collaborative work around visual literacy, and her series titled “Uplifting Memes.”

Jeevan Hubbard ’20 explains how majoring in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) at SC&I and his side business repairing iphones helped him define the career path that led him to his current position at Apple Inc.

“The degree is one thing, but it’s what you take away from the program that truly matters,” says Kayla Jennings-Rivera, MCM ’20. Read more about how the MCM program shaped her path.

SC&I’s Master of Information (MI) students can complete their degrees through the MI program’s online learning option. Stephanie Nakamura, MI’22, reflects on what she calls the “gift” of her information science education.

Spring edition of Kairos is live! Kairos features stories of the COVID-19 crisis to how Rutgers Dance Marathon funds are really spent and much more.

Rutgers researchers find Spanish autocompletes are more likely to yield harmful, negative results.

Combining both his love for writing and sports, Jackson Thompson ’20, was able to land a job at the Sports Illustrated Maven network through his own initiative, hard work, and help from a few Rutgers alumni.

The Rutgers Board of Governors has approved the promotions of six SC&I faculty members.

On June 16, 2020, the Rutgers University Board of Governors conferred the title of full professor with tenure to Deepa Kumar, effective July 1, 2020.

Senteio will collaborate with Dr. Retsef Levi at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to conduct research on health inequities and technology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

At a time when misinformation is on the rise, journalists themselves are under attack, and newsrooms are shrinking, American journalists are covering the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, police violence, systemic racial injustice, riots, protests, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

As a ’94 Rutgers JMS alumna, Heather O’Rourke speaks about her life after graduating from SC&I, how her Rutgers education helped her get to where she is today, and advice for current students.

The faculty of the Rutgers Department of Journalism and Media Studies most strongly condemns the arrest on June 1 of Asbury Park Press (APP) reporter Gustavo Martínez Contreras while covering protests in Asbury Park against police brutality. Contreras was shooting video of the protests when he was taken into custody.