The 2026 James Madison Award recipient for service to the First Amendment is Rufus Friday, executive director of the Center for Integrity in News Reporting. The School of Journalism and Media in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information and its Scripps Howard First Amendment Center present the award annually.
Today, thousands of University of Kentucky alumni and friends will walk away carrying a piece of Aimee Griffith.“When you paint something, it becomes a part of you,” the watercolorist said.
The University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information will host the 2026 James C. Bowling Executive-in-Residence Lecture 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in Wrigley Auditorium, 250 Pence Hall.
A student from the Department of Integrated Strategic Communication in the University of College of Communication and Information took the top prize at this year’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference logo competition.
Journalist and former USA TODAY investigative reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski will deliver the Joe Creason Lecture in Journalism this month.
Sean Burns, an associate professor in the School of Information Science in CI, was recognized Sept. 16, 2026, with the UK Online Teaching Award.
Ciah Marks and Serena Florell, two integrated strategic communication students here in the College of Communication and Information, won the Radio Mercury Award for Student-Produced Script for their "Love Radio" commercial script this summer. They wrote the script after Elizabeth Spencer, an assistant professor in ISC, offered her students extra credit to create an original radio ad and submit it to Radio Mercury judges.
The University of Kentucky Scripps Howard First Amendment Center is accepting nominations for its James Madison Award, which honors a Kentuckian who is a champion of the First Amendment. The center, in the College of Communication and Information’s School of Journalism and Media, is accepting nominations to recognize those whose contributions protect or expand First Amendment freedoms.
A wall of faces waiting staring at you. A deck of slides that you suddenly can’t remember anything about. Your throat is dry and tight. And in that moment, it feels like your entire future depends on getting it right.
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