UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications

08/27/2026

Over halfway through week one💪 Bring on the rest of the semester!

08/21/2026

Today we welcomed our second largest incoming class in college history!

Thanks to all the faculty, staff and students who joined us for our Stop By, Say Hi event!

06/08/2026

Our Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellows just kicked off their third week at Arizona State University for the summer portion of the 2026 national reporting initiative.

Congrats to (from left to right) Jackson Ingvoldstad, Sophie Farrell and Dawson Iasillo on being selected for this year's cohort!

06/08/2026

Thanks for the shoutout, Student Press Law Center! We're very proud of these students and so happy to see the recognition and impact of their investigative work: https://go.unl.edu/joed

A University of Nebraska–Lincoln student project that investigated the overcrowding, understaffing and other multilayered issues confronting Nebraska’s prison system took home the College Journalism Award at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book and Journalism Awards on May 20.

06/05/2026

Join us in congratulating May 2026 graduates Livia Ziskey, who won first place in the Hearst National Writing Championship, and Grace Lewis, who won third place in the same category!👏

05/20/2026

We're honored to share that our in-depth reporting project, "Nebraska Behind Bars," won the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center's 2026 College Journalism Award!

Congratulations to the 11 student reporters (Maddie Ames, Chloe Fitzgibbon, Alex Gryczanowski, Jackson Ingvoldstad, Grace Lewis, Ryan Luetkemeyer, Fatima Naqi, Meghan O'Brien, Shelby Rickert, Paloma Sanchez-McGee, Livia Ziskey) and to our two Deepe Family Chairs in Depth Reporting, Associate Professor of Practice Chris Graves and Assistant Professor Linda White.

See the award-winning investigative depth report here: http://go.unl.edu/c4w2

05/10/2026

Congratulations, graduates! Here, at the CoJMC, you found your voice and now it's time to share it! 🎓️
📷️: Dawson Iasillo

05/07/2026

Our Nebraska Behind Bars depth reporting team has been nationally recognized for its work investigating overcrowding and understaffing at the state's nine prisons.

Most recently, Livia Ziskey's story won first place in the Hearst Investigative Competition, qualifying her for the National Writing Championship in San Francisco this June, and Grace Lewis won the Investigative Reporters & Editors Student Individual Award and seventh place in the Hearst Investigative Competition for her work on the project.

Stay tuned, we'll have another exciting award announcement later this month 👀 and read the team's award-winning stories here: https://buff.ly/pFvLkQc

04/24/2026

Celebrated the legacy of broadcasting faculty members Laurie Lee, Rick Alloway and Barney McCoy (not present) this evening.❤️ Congratulations on your retirement, we miss you all already!

04/17/2026

Join us in wishing our National Student Advertising Competition team good luck! Today, they'll present the campaign they created for the NFL at the District 9 Competition!🎉