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UConn Anti-Black racism course requirement placed on hold
The UConn Senate voted to delay the requirement that all undergraduates take a course on anti-Black racism amid concerns that requiring the course would be considered discriminatory by the Trump administration.
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Treasurer’s office to discuss investment firm’s connection with ICE flights
The Connecticut Treasurer’s office is scheduled to meet this week with one of its investment funds to discuss its involvement in deportation flights run by federal ICE.
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Suspended U.S. refugee program separates families, stalls resettlement
When Connecticut’s flagship resettlement agency lost $4 million in federal funding due to a Trump administration executive order, it closed offices in Hartford and New Haven.
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UConn students confront housing crunch as enrollment rises
With on-campus beds falling far short of student demand, many UConn students were forced into expensive off-campus housing, and for some, the financial and emotional burden is overwhelming.
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Graduating Sandy Hook survivor looks back and ahead
As Lenie Urbina graduated from UConn, her mind slipped to the Sandy Hook students and staff members who were killed in 2012 in a tragedy that shocked the nation. Lenie was a 4th grader hiding in the gym supply closet.
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Opinion: Federal cuts could snip away your local park
As the Trump Administration continues to make deep cuts to federal programs that support parks, I have begun to wonder what will I do if my main connection to nature is severed?
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Students still facing academic and mental health challenges post-COVID
The pandemic’s toll on student engagement continues to reverberate across campuses nationwide.
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Opinion: In Defense of the Dandelion
Through a desire to keep neighborhoods as idyllic as the ones in those advertising images, suburban homeowners came to despise the dandelion. But these little yellow flowers have a lot to offer us.
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How CT nursing home staff work to reduce social isolation
The job for retirement home staffers is to become like a family to the residents. For some people, coming into a retirement home is their first time living alone.
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How sports journalism pioneer Claire Smith of ESPN gets into ‘the marrow of a story’
By Maya A. Moore ‘19 | UConn Journalism | March 29, 2019 Claire Smith credits her mother’s infectious love of the baseball and the enduring story of Jackie and Rachel Robinson with inspiring her 37-year-long career as a sports journalist. “I always knew that baseball was a passion, from childhood,” she said. “I just fell in…
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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 happened…
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Hearst Connecticut VP Matt DeRienzo talks online news, local versus corporate ownership
By Abigail Brone | March 8, 2019 Matt DeRienzo began working as a journalist the day after his eighteenth birthday. “I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper in Maine about a drunk driver that hit and killed a friend of mine’s mother. I argued the bar that served the driver should…
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Michael Marciano’s judicious reporting on musicians, judges, lawyers and a U.S. President
Marciano is the bureau chief of Connecticut Law Tribune
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Behind the Stories: How to Succeed in Hyperlocal News
In this edition of our ‘Behind the Stories’ podcast, UConn Journalism seniors Amanda Cabral, Madison Geerlof and Ryley McGinnis talked with the editors of three thriving hyperlocal news websites in Connecticut: Doug Hardy of CT News Junkie, Ronni Newton of We-Ha.com, and Michael Dinan of the New Canaanite. The most popular hyperlocal news sites focus on…
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Behind the Stories: How To Cover Cannabis
There’s momentum in Connecticut to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Connecticut’s brand new governor, Ned Lamont, has made legalization a priority for his administration. It’s far from a done deal though. The change requires legislative approval. And there are plenty of groups in Connecticut opposed to the idea, citing concerns about people driving under the influence, youth substance…
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How ‘mistrust’ of the news motivates Hearst Journalism Fellow Tatiana Flowers
As a journalist, some stories will be more challenging than others, but that never stops Tatiana Flowers, a young reporter and Hearst Journalism Fellow at The Hour in Norwalk. Flowers found her passion for journalism during college despite her initial desire to become a veterinarian. Writing came naturally, and eventually, she perfected her multimedia skills, including in video…
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The Dorm Room Barber
By Jason Jiang and Neel Razdan. Produced as part of Prof. Steve Smith's advanced visual journalism course, Dec. 2017.
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“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 and…
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How Chris Brodeur ’10 broke into a new medium with the ‘UConn Insider’ podcast
By RYAN KIM November 9, 2018 With UConn basketball season picking up this weekend, we take you around the horn with a local Connecticut journalist who knows a thing or two about championships here at the basketball capital of the world. His experience comes from right here in Storrs as a 2010 UConn graduate. Chris…