The College of Media is the journalism school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States. The college's name changed from the College of Communications to the College of Media in 2008.
The College of Media offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Journalism, Advertising, Media and Cinema Studies, and (jointly with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Agricultural Communications. The college also partners with the Grainger College of Engineering to provide a "CS+" major in advertising which combines the academic study of advertising and computer science. Graduate degrees are offered with Master of Science degrees in Journalism and Advertising. A Doctor of Philosophy in Communications and Media is also available.
The College of Media is primarily housed in Gregory Hall. The Richmond Journalism Teaching Studio is also used for broadcast classes.
Contents
College units
Department of Agricultural Communication
Department of Advertising
Department of Journalism
CU-CitizenAccess, a community news website
Department of Media and Cinema Studies
Institute of Communications Research
WILL – AM, FM, TV, and online
Curriculum
The Urbana-Champaign area has Illini Media, which features the Daily Illini, WPGU Radio, the Illio yearbook, Buzz, www.the217.com, and the Technograph, an engineering magazine. Richmond Studio hosts UI-7 and WILL.
Television stations
12 WILL-TV, PBS
UI-7, cable TV service
Radio stations
580 AM WILL, public radio
90.9 FM WILL-FM
Notable alumni
Students and alumni have worked for organizations including the Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, WGN-TV, Fox TV, Universal Pictures, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rolling Stone Magazine, CNN, WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago, the Champaign News-Gazette, the Associated Press, NBC 5 Chicago, WCIA, WPGU, Illini Media, UI-7, the Big Ten Network, the Chicago Rush, the Chicago Bandits, the Chicago Sky, the Chicago Wolves, the Chicago Storm, the Chicago Slaughter, the Chicago Shamrox, the Northwest Herald, KISS-FM, ESPN Rise magazine, KMOV CBS St. Louis, the NFL Network, and WGN Radio 720.
Pulitzer Prize winners
Barry Bearak, M.S. 1974 – International Reporting, 2002
Michael Colgrass, B.A. 1956 – Music, 1978
George Crumb, M.A. 1952 – Music, 1968
David Herbert Donald, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1946 – Biography, 1961 and 1988
Carl Van Doren, B.A. 1907 – Biography, 1939
Mark Van Doren, B.A. 1914 – Poetry, 1940
Roger Ebert, B.S. 1964 – Criticism, 1975
Roy J. Harris, B.A. 1925 – Public Service, 1950
Glenn Howatt, M.S. 1986 – Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, 2013
Paul Ingrassia, B.S. 1972 – Beat Reporting, 1993
Allan Nevins, B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913 – Biography, 1933 and 1937
James Reston, B.S. 1932 – National Reporting, 1945 and 1957