Author Archives: UConn Journalism

Behind the Stories Podcast: Reporting on Race and Racism as a Journalist

The news media is fac­ing a reck­on­ing over diver­si­ty, equi­ty and inclu­sion. UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents Sama­ra Thack­er, Court­ney Gavitt and Jor­dana Castel­li go behind the sto­ries to find out how jour­nal­ists should cov­er race and racism, and how to avoid prac­tices and reflex­es that mar­gin­al­ize peo­ple.  Fea­tur­ing inter­views with SNY sports anchor Chris Williamson, NextShark headCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries Pod­cast: Report­ing on Race and Racism as a Journalist”

Behind the Stories Podcast: How news reporting changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents Izzi Bar­ton, Bren­dan Car­pen­ter and Raquel Williamson go behind the sto­ries to find out how jour­nal­ists adapt­ed to remote work dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.  Charles Sen­nott, founder and edi­tor of The GroundTruth Project, explained how Report for Amer­i­ca reporters had to do their work “with incred­i­ble respect” for the pan­dem­ic and the job ofCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries Pod­cast: How news report­ing changed dur­ing the COVID-19 pandemic”

Viral Minds Podcast: You Said Forever Now I Can’t Stop Listening To This Song

By Ayan­nah Brown | UConn Jour­nal­ismMarch 9, 2021 The song “Driver’s License” by Olivia Rodri­go has tak­en over the Inter­net in the past few months. With mil­lions of videos post­ed with the hash­tag #dri­ver­sli­cense, mul­ti­ple Tik Tok chal­lenges and record break­ing num­bers of plays and down­loads, it’s safe to say this song has gone full viral. But whatCon­tin­ue read­ing “Viral Minds Pod­cast: You Said For­ev­er Now I Can’t Stop Lis­ten­ing To This Song”

Podcast Transcript: ‘Crash Course’ goes behind the stories

The ‘Crash Course’ newslet­ter team brings you behind the sto­ries this week with a pod­cast to hear from three Con­necti­cut polit­i­cal jour­nal­ists — from left, Daniela Alti­mari of The Hart­ford Courant, Emi­lie Mun­son of Hearst Con­necti­cut, and Amber Diaz of WTNH-TV. They talk about their expe­ri­ences cov­er­ing the 2020 elec­tion and the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. WeCon­tin­ue read­ing “Pod­cast Tran­script: ‘Crash Course’ goes behind the stories”

Mamma Mia!

The stu­dent the­ater group Page to Stage per­forms ”Mam­ma Mia!” in the Stu­dent Union The­ater on Sun­day, Nov. 10, 2019. Direct­ed by third semes­ter bio­med­ical engi­neer­ing stu­dent Emi­ly Kil­ian, both the 2p.m. and 6 p.m. shows sold out and had the crowd danc­ing along to the musi­cal num­bers in their seats. Pho­to by Mag­gie Chafouleaus,Con­tin­ue read­ing “Mam­ma Mia!”

Not Forgotten UConn: Longtime librarian left indelible mark

By GABRIELLA DEBENEDICTIS August 20, 2019 Spe­cial to the Chron­i­cle STORRS — Edwina Whit­ney focused on the future in her pro­fes­sion­al life as a librar­i­an at what would become the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. But she was also nos­tal­gic for the past. A life­long Mans­field res­i­dent who, for decades, worked for the uni­ver­si­ty her fam­i­ly helped estab­lish, sheCon­tin­ue read­ing “Not For­got­ten UConn: Long­time librar­i­an left indeli­ble mark”

Not Forgotten UConn: Midred French paved way for UConn women

By SARAH AL-ARSHANI July 16, 2019 Spe­cial to the Chron­i­cle STORRS — Mil­dred French was a pio­neer for females at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut in the era between the two world wars. An inde­pen­dent woman who stud­ied at five dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions of high­er edu­ca­tion, she earned both under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate degrees at a time when few womenCon­tin­ue read­ing “Not For­got­ten UConn: Midred French paved way for UConn women”

Behind the Stories: How the Sandy Hook shooting changed the way journalists in Connecticut cover guns

In Spring 2018, a team of UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents asked four Con­necti­cut jour­nal­ists how the 2012 Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary School shoot­ing changed the way they cov­er gun vio­lence and the gun con­trol debate. We talked with reporters Jenn Bern­stein and Matthew Kauff­man, edi­to­r­i­al page edi­tor Jacque­line Smith and colum­nist Susan Camp­bell. Mass shoot­ings had hap­penedCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: How the Sandy Hook shoot­ing changed the way jour­nal­ists in Con­necti­cut cov­er guns”

“Elaisa Rocks”

Every Wednes­day at noon, UConn senior Elaisa Lau­re­ta hosts a music pro­gram enti­tled “Elaisa Rocks” and invites friends to join her in the stu­dio. On Octo­ber 24, she danced and laughed as music aired, along­side close friends Daniela Don­cel and Alex­is Krantz, both also UConn Seniors.  The three have been friends since high school andCon­tin­ue read­ing ““Elaisa Rocks””