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John Boughey

CMCI Now: Live and Direct

Dec. 21, 2021

Radio 1190 has created the soundtrack of CU for the past 30 years. CMCI senior John Boughey hit the ground running as news director during COVID-19 pandemic.

CMCI Now Fall 2021

CMCI Now: Read the Latest Issue

Dec. 20, 2021

From undergraduates to doctoral candidates, the college equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to produce, gather, archive, curate, analyze and evaluate the flood of information, messages, data, images, sounds and ideas that populate our complex and rapidly evolving global media landscape. Check out the newest edition of our award-winning magazine.

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Community event to document, offer healing after 2021 Boulder shooting

Dec. 10, 2021

A Lens Towards Healing, a community event Tuesday, Dec. 14, will offer a place for reflection, story-generating and healing after the Boulder King Soopers shooting in March.

9NEWS: 鈥淧ortrait project helping Boulder heal after King Soopers shooting鈥

Dec. 8, 2021

Featuring Ross Taylor (Journalism)

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Jim Gray to receive George Norlin Award

Nov. 4, 2021

The George Norlin Award, which will be given to Gray Nov. 4, is the highest award bestowed by CU Boulder. It adds to Gray鈥檚 12 Emmy awards he鈥檚 received throughout his career, recognizing his outstanding work and powerful interviews with sports icons like Tom Brady, Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Michael Jordan.

Image: A viral video produced by Deadspin in March 2018 showed reporters at Sinclair stations across the country reciting the same script about "fake news."

Media consolidation takes toll on local news but doesn鈥檛 necessarily bias coverage

Oct. 21, 2021

A new analysis of 350,000 news stories produced by conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group finds when the company buys a station, local news definitely takes a hit. But it did not find any evidence, at scale, that coverage shifts toward a more conservative slant.

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News Engagement Day: Reimagining what it means to consume news in a healthy, sustainable way

Oct. 4, 2021

At a time where news is more accessible than ever through online platforms, it can be easy to either become addicted to the stream of news or to want to disengage from it completely. To celebrate this News Engagement Day, we caught up with a number of CMCI students and baby直播app to find out how they are cultivating a healthy relationship with the news.

Open Campus: 鈥淭he difference between quitting and graduating鈥

Sept. 15, 2021

Featuring Dave Martinez (CMCI DEI Team)

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Dean Bergen serving on two baby直播app media boards

Sept. 15, 2021

Lori Bergen, the founding dean of the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of baby直播app Boulder, has been elected to the board of directors at two organizations: baby直播app Public Radio (CPR) and the baby直播app Press Association (CPA).

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CMCI Now: What We're Reading

Sept. 13, 2021

Our summer reading list is full of new books by CMCI baby直播app scholars on topics including media and religion, technology and trauma, video activism and citizen-centered journalism.

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