Damaso Reyes is the executive and investigative editor of the New York Amsterdam News, a Fullbright Specialist, and an Ida B. Wells Award winner.
Reyes will discuss with students the ins and outs of running a weekly newspaper in New York City and his work for a newspaper founded to serve the African American community in Harlem.
This event will take place on Wednesday, September 25th at 10:00 AM in the Brown Alley Room, Weinstein Hall.
Join the Department of Journalism for a screening of ’As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial’ followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer and Journalism Alum, Sam Widdoes.
This event will take place in the Ukrop Auditorium and Business School Moelchert, on Monday, September 30th at 4:00 PM.
Journalist Jason Motlagh will focus on conflict and rights abuse related to his reporting in Haiti, Myanmar, and the war in Afghanistan.
This event will take place in Jepson Hall, 118 on Monday, April 15th from 3:00 to 4:30 P.M.
Named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023, Victor Luckerson will chat with University of Richmond History Professor Edward Ayers about his book: "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street."
This event will take place in the Brown Alley Room on Tuesday, March 26th at 5:30 P.M.
Journalism students representing every class year in the department gathered in the lab on Election Night to report on state and local races for news outlets across Virginia.
Andrew Grace, assistant professor of journalism, was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast for his work on the second season of the NPR podcast “White Lies.” The Murrow Awards, presented each year by the Radio Television Digital News Association, are one of the major awards for broadcast television and radio.
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Shahan Mufti was promoted to professor of journalism. Mufti specializes in the literary and narrative non-fiction genre, tackling complex social issues through in-depth storytelling and on-the-ground reporting.
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Shahan Mufti, associate professor of journalism, won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Alan Poe Award for his book American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.
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Thomas P. Kapsidelis, visiting assistant professor in journalism, published the article, "Curbing Gun Violence Demands Focus on Stronger Laws, Helping Those Who’ve Been Hurt," in the Richmond Free Press.
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UR professors received awards for works ranging from a historical fictional account of Richmond’s tragic theater fire to a new translation of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf.
Mailing Address:
Department of Journalism
414 Weinstein Hall
231 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8263
Fax: (804) 287-6052
Department Chair: Shahan Mufti
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Robin Mundle