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””

Louisiana Underwater

In March 2016, five UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents in Prof. Bob Wyss’ envi­ron­men­tal jour­nal­ism course trav­eled with him to Louisiana to report on the envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges in Louisiana. The stu­dents — Kim­ber­ly Arm­strong, Dil­er Haji, Nicholas Shi­go, Char­lie Smart and Julia Werth — learned about the mechan­ics of envi­ron­men­tal beat report­ing on loca­tion. They spent theCon­tin­ue read­ing “Louisiana Under­wa­ter”

Q&A with WTNH News 8’s Teresa (LaBarbera) Dufour ’01

Tere­sa (LaBar­bera) Dufour has held most jobs in a broad­cast news­room: reporter, pro­duc­er, anchor and host. Dufour says each of her job expe­ri­ences, begin­ning from when she was still a jour­nal­ism stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, were invalu­able steps lead­ing her to the next opportunity.

Catching up with Award-Winning NYC Broadcast Journalist David Ushery ’89

By Melisa Fink, UConn Jour­nal­ism Feb­ru­ary 12, 2014 After land­ing com­pet­i­tive intern­ships at both The Hart­ford Courant and Los Ange­les Times while still a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, David Ush­ery rec­og­nized his call­ing in the news busi­ness. Ush­ery is now an Emmy-award win­ning news anchor at one of the lead­ing news sta­tions in NewCon­tin­ue read­ing “Catch­ing up with Award-Win­ning NYC Broad­cast Jour­nal­ist David Ush­ery ’89″

CT Law Tribune Web Editor Karen Ali (’88) Recalls Her ‘Sudden Death’ Lucky Break

Karen Ali, a 1988 Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut grad­u­ate, dis­cov­ered her pas­sion for jour­nal­ism while writ­ing for The Dai­ly Cam­pus. Ever since, she has immersed her­self in the jour­nal­ism world. After stints at the Water­bury Repub­­li­­can-Amer­i­­can, The (Dan­bury) News-Times and Patch.com, Ali now works for the Con­necti­cut Law Tri­bune in Hart­ford.  As the CT Law Tri­bune’sCon­tin­ue read­ing CT Law Tri­bune Web Edi­tor Karen Ali (’88) Recalls Her ‘Sud­den Death’ Lucky Break”

ESPN.com’s Justin Verrier ’09: ‘You’ll never be more valuable than you are right now’

Justin Ver­ri­er grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut in 2009 with a dou­ble major in Jour­nal­ism and Eng­lish. He cur­rent­ly serves as the con­tribut­ing NBA edi­tor for ESPN.com. Ver­ri­er is respon­si­ble for orga­niz­ing the Nation­al Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion edi­to­r­i­al con­tent on the sports web­site while also con­tribut­ing to blogs, columns and fea­tures. In the Q&A below, he talks about hisCon­tin­ue read­ing ESPN.com’s Justin Ver­ri­er ’09: ‘You’ll nev­er be more valu­able than you are right now’”