Scott Horn, co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition and the 2024 James Madison Award winner, will deliver the State of the First Amendment Address at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the J. David Rosenberg College of Law’s Grand Courtroom. The address is titled "Algorithms of Speech: Free Expression in the Era of Al." The James Madison Award presentation will follow.
The 2025 James Madison Award recipient for service to the First Amendment is James F. (Jay) Nolan III, chairman and CEO of Nolan Group Media and J. Frank Publishing Inc. The University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media and its Scripps Howard First Amendment Center present the award annually.
Perched on a nightstand in the Craftsman bungalow Katie Morrison shares with her husband, Brian, is an encased wallpaper swatch, a relic of her childhood home that ties her present to her past. Sage-colored vines coil over a muted white background within a small golden frame, an ivy-like pattern that once sprawled across her Eastern Kentucky kitchen where she spent hours with loved ones. Salvaged by her sister-in-law, Kati, before the property’s sale, it occupies a prominent place next to a seaside vacation photo of Morrison and her late mother, Melanie.
Two-year-old Stetson, sitting with his mother in an infusion room in the DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic, seems a little intimidated. Not by the doctors, nurses or the prospect of being poked by needles, but by the presence of four giants. These strangers, dressed in UK blue, sit in front of Stetson, gently bid him hello and ask about the bottle of bubbles he’s holding.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes is scheduled to deliver the Joe Creason Lecture from 10-11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 15, in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. Attendance is free and open to the public.
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.
912 College of Communication and Information students were named to the Dean’s List for their outstanding academic achievement during the Spring 2025 semester. The 912 students on the list account for more than one third of all current CI students.
After top 10 finishes in the Photojournalism News and Features Competition of the 2024-25 Hearst Journalism Awards Program earlier this year, University of Kentucky journalism students and recent graduates Abbey Cutrer and Matthew Mueller have been named top 10 winners in the Hearst’s Picture Story/Series Competition category.
At the UK HealthCare Boys’ Sweet 16 Basketball Tournament at Rupp Arena, students from two University of Kentucky journalism courses collaborated to provide real-time, professional-level coverage of one of the state’s most iconic sporting events through an innovative new program called GameOn UK.
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