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.
The spring 2025 semester wrapped up at the downtown Rupp Studios facilities, with JAM production and broadcast news and sports students at their new state-of-the-art home.
Four graduating students have been selected by University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto to represent the Class of 2025 as speakers at UK’s May Commencement Ceremonies, taking place Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10.The students are Julianna Boulden, Ethan Morgan, Nigel Taylor and Tyler Chapman.
Two JAM faculty members are recognized at the Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars.
JAM faculty made numerous appearances as panelists and participants at the 2025 annual meeting of the Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas.
A collaboration between the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information, UK Athletics and JMI Sports has created an innovative new studio space in Central Bank Center, just steps away from Rupp Arena. The goal? Taking media education to the next level at the University of Kentucky.
An award-winning photographer, Kentucky’s leading TV news journalist, a longtime broadcast sports journalist and two print journalists who covered some of the biggest stories of the last four decades make up the 2025 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
For one University of Kentucky alum, having access to an on-campus recording studio allowed him to make professional quality music at no cost. Another noted his journalism coursework shared themes with songwriting and helped him strengthen his lyrics. And an advisor’s suggestion to pursue a flexible major encouraged another to think about the business side of her music career.