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.
Journalist and former USA TODAY investigative reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski will deliver the Joe Creason Lecture in Journalism this month.
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.
JAM faculty members shared their teaching and research expertise while sporting their blue Kentucky badge ribbons at another stellar showing at the 109th annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in New Orleans.
Andy Rose, a 1999 graduate of the School of Journalism and Media in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information, has been promoted to senior news desk reporter at CNN, marking a significant milestone in his nearly two-decade career with the network.
JAM faculty member Professor Beecher Reuning's short film "Mace" received the Visionary Justice Award, voted on by a sold-out audience, at the Cinequeer Film Night, a screening of nine films during the Southern Fried Queer Pride's 12th Annual Festival in Atlanta, GA this past June.
Price Atkinson, a 1997 journalism alumnus from the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information, is reflecting on how his time at UK helped launch a global career in sports communication that has taken him to multiple Winter Olympic Games.
863 College of Communication and Information students were named to the Dean’s List for their outstanding academic achievement during the Spring 2026 semester. The 863 students on the list account for more than one third of all current CI students.
UK School of Journalism and Media faculty member Kathryn Montalbano is the 2026 recipient of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's prestigious Covert Award for best article, essay, or book chapter on mass communication history.