Associate Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Recipient of the 2020 Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award and named the 2014 Associated Press Media Editors Innovator of the Year for College Students, Stretch Ledford has worked as a journalist telling stories through audio, photographs and video in more than 55 countries. His career began as […]
Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Johnson started his journalism career as a staff photojournalist at The News-Gazette in Champaign and has been teaching at the University since 1988. Johnson’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday and others. Research and Creative Endeavor […]
Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting Affiliations Background Professor Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois. Houston teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois. He also oversees the […]
Technical Coordinator for Broadcast Operations Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Erdey previously worked as a news photographer/editor for the television station WCIA in Champaign, Illinois. Other stations include CLTV, WFLD-Fox32, WCIU, CNN Chicago Bureau, all based in Chicago. He is a current board member of the Illinois Journalism Education Association and has served as the Executive […]
Swanlund Chair Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Leon DeCosta Dash, Jr., born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, grew up in Harlem and the Bronx. He graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Political Science in 1968. Before graduating, he held an internship as a newsroom copy […]
Karin and Folke Dovring Professor in Journalism and Democratic Society Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Before earning a doctorate, Craft worked as a journalist for newspapers in California, Arkansas and Washington. She previously chaired the Journalism Studies faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and is a former […]
May 18, 2018 The College of Media is pleased to announce several additions to the leadership team. Stephanie Craft will be assuming the position of Head of the Department of Journalism, effective June 16, 2018. Her research focuses on news literacy and journalism ethics. Mike Yao will become Interim Head of the Charles H. Sandage […]
January 22, 2018 The College of Media is pleased to announce that Dave Kissel, a 1985 journalism graduate, will be the alumni speaker at the College of Media Convocation ceremony on Sunday, May 13, 2018. He has built a distinguished career in marketing, advertising and sports for Fortune 500 clients by leading high-impact teams at world-class agencies and media […]
November 3, 2017 An important part of the legacy of the noted film critic, Urbana native, and U of I alumnus Roger Ebert has come home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, thanks to a recent donation from the Chicago Sun-Times. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives has acquired the motion picture press kit […]
February 9, 2017 David E. McCraw, a 1976 journalism graduate from Monticello, Illinois, will be the 2017 College of Media convocation speaker. McCraw is vice president and deputy general counsel for The New York Times. He has a master’s degree from Cornell and a JD from Albany Law School. McCraw has worked as a journalist and […]