The College of Media is a

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at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States. The college name changed from College of Communications to the College of Media in 2008. The College of Media offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Journalism, Advertising, Media and Cinema Studies, and (jointly with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Agricultural Communications. The college also partners with the

Grainger College of Engineering The Grainger College of Engineering is the engineering college of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was established in 1868 and is considered one of the original units of the school. Every engineering program in the college is ...

to provide a "CS+" major in advertising which combines the academic study of advertising and

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. Graduate degrees are offered with Master of Science degrees in Journalism and Advertising. A Doctor in Philosophy in Communications and Media is also available. The U of I College of Media is currently among the top three most selective colleges at the University of Illinois along with the UIUC College of Engineering and the

UIUC College of Business Gies College of Business is the business school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Public university, public research university in Champaign, Illinois. The college offers undergraduate program, masters programs, and a PhD program ...

, with the median 50% of incoming freshmen scoring between 27–32 on the ACT. The Department of Advertising—the first such academic department in the country—was established at the University of Illinois in 1959. The department was created by Charles Sandage, known as the "father of advertising education." Like virtually every other advertising program that rose in its shadow, it reflected the structure and functions of the modern advertising agency.

Rankings

QS World University Rankings ranked its Media Studies program seventh in the world. The Department of Advertising has been consistently ranked in the top five departments in the country in the past 20 years. Rankings are based on scholarship, and perceptions of peers as well as those of advertising industry personnel. Advertising students at Illinois prepare for all facets of the consumer communications industry. This is what makes the program unique, and it is what repeatedly places it among the top-ranked programs in the country.

Facilities

The College of Media is primarily housed in Gregory Hall. The Richmond Journalism Teaching Studio is also used for broadcast classes. A degree from the College of Media stresses a strong liberal arts background, so students typically take many different classes in areas such as political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, natural science, and history.

College units

* Department of Agricultural Communication * Department of Advertising * Department of Journalism **CU-CitizenAccess, a community news website * Department of Media and Cinema Studies * Institute of Communications Research * WILL – AM, FM, TV, and online

Campus opportunities

The University of Illinois offers students opportunities to get a sense of working in journalism while in school. The Urbana-Champaign area has

Illini Media The Illini Media Company is a nonprofit, student media company based in Champaign, Illinois. The company owns several student-run media outlets associated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: the general newspaper, the ''Daily Illi ...

, which features the '' Daily Illini'',

WPGU WPGU (107.1 FM) is a fully commercial, student-run college radio station on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. It broadcasts an alternative rock radio format and other programming throughout Champ ...

Radio, the ''Illio'' yearbook, Buzz, www.the217.com, and the ''Technograph'', an engineering magazine that comes out four times a year. Richmond Studio also hosts UI-7 and WILL.

Television stations

* 12 WILL-TV,

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* UI-7, cable TV service

Radio stations

* 580 AM

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* 90.9 FM WILL-FM

Notable alumni

Students and alumni have worked for organizations including the

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, the ''

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'', the ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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'',

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CBS 2 Chicago, the Champaign ''

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'', the

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, NBC 5 Chicago, WCIA,

, UI-7, the

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, the

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, the

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, the Chicago Sky, the

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, the Chicago Storm, the Chicago Slaughter, the

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, the '' Northwest Herald'', KISS-FM,

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'' magazine, KMOV CBS St. Louis, the NFL Network, and WGN Radio 720. Pulitzer Prize winners *

Barry Bearak Barry Leon Bearak (born August 31, 1949, in Chicago) is an American journalist and educator who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for ''The Miami Herald'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The New York Times''. He taught journalism as a ...

, M.S. 1974 – International Reporting, 2002 *

Michael Colgrass Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American-born Canada-based musician, composer, and educator. Life and career Colgrass was born in Brookfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His musical career began in Chicag ...

, B.A. 1956 –

Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

, 1978 *

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

, M.A. 1952 –

, 1968 * David Herbert Donald, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1946 –

Biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...

, 1961 and 1988 * Carl Van Doren, B.A. 1907 –

, 1939 *

Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...

, B.A. 1914 –

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, 1940 *

Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...

, B.S. 1964 –

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, 1975 *

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, M.S. 1986 – Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, 2013 *

Paul Ingrassia Paul Joseph Ingrassia (August 18, 1950 – September 16, 2019) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as managing editor of Reuters from 2011 to 2016. He was also an editor at the Revs Institute, an automotive history and re ...

, B.S. 1972 –

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, 1993 * Allan Nevins, B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913 –

, 1933 and 1937 *

James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' Early lif ...

, B.S. 1932 –

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, 1945 and 1957 *

Robert Lewis Taylor Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Education Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Taylor attended Southern Illinois University for one year. The u ...

, B.A. 1933 –

Fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...

, 1959 *

George F. Will George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for ''The Washington Post'' and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. Gold, Hadas (May 8, 2017)." ...

, B.A. 1933 –

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, 1977 Broadcasting and journalism * Ryan Baker – CBS 2 Chicago sports anchor, B.S. 1991 * Robin Baumgarten –

9 anchor *

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–

announcer * Jill Carlson –

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WFLD 32 Chicago sports anchor and reporter *

– movie critic and author, B.S. 1964 * Rob Elgas – NBC 5 Chicago anchor * John Foreman – ''The News-Gazette'' publisher * Donald Heimburger – European Traveler/Heimburger House Publishing Company *

– journalist, 1993

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winner, M.S. 1972 * Amber Jenne – WCIA 3 reporter and anchor; M.S. Class of 2005 *

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– journalist, has worked for

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, and

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; has won 34 Emmys * Will Leitch – sports writer/author; author of three books, including '' God Save the Fan'', a book of essays; an editor of '' Deadspin'' * Andy Miller – WCIA 3 News Director * Eric Olson – '' Daily Chronicle'' editor * Christina Peluso –

WFLD Chicago 32 writer * Alex Perez – NBC 5 Chicago reporter * Ash-har Quraishi – Chief Investigative Reporter for KCTV; Bureau Chief,

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* Jennifer Roscoe – WCIA 3 anchor Media * Robert "Buck" Brown – ''

Playboy ''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. K ...

'' cartoonist, creator of the libinous "Granny" character, and whose drawings regularly addressed racial equality issues * Dianne Chandler – ''Playboy''

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, 1966 * Judith Ford (Judi Nash), B.S. –

Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...

1969 *

Erika Harold Erika Natalie Louise Harold (born February 20, 1980) is an American attorney, politician, and former Miss America. Harold was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003. Her pageant platform was combating bullying. In 2014, she was a candidate ...

–

2003 *

Hugh Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obsc ...

, B.A. 1949 – founder of ''Playboy'' magazine *

Nicole Hollander Nicole Hollander (born April 25, 1939) is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip '' Sylvia'' was syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hollander was the daughter o ...

, B.A. 1960 – syndicated cartoonist of ''Sylvia'' *

Henry Petroski Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning ...

, Ph.D. 1968 – civil engineer and writer * Irna Phillips, 1923 – creator of the soap opera Reporting and journalism *

Dan Balz Daniel Balz is an American journalist at ''The Washington Post'', where he has been a political correspondent since 1978. Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the ''Washington Post''s Texas-based S ...

, B.A. 1968, M.A. 1972 – ''

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'' national political reporter and editor; author * B. Peter Bolek – 2005 Daily Southtown *

Chris Britt Chris Britt is an editorial cartoonist and author from Phoenix, Arizona. Britt is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's College of Fine Arts with a degree in visual arts. Britt has been a cartoonist since 1991. His awards i ...

– editorial cartoonist * John Chancellor – political analyst and newscaster for '' NBC Nightly News'' *

, B.S. 1964 – film critic *

Bill Geist William Geist is an American retired author, columnist, and television journalist. Early life Geist was born on May 10, 1945 in Champaign, Illinois. He served in the United States Army as a combat photographer with the 1st Infantry Division ...

, 1968 –

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...

correspondent *

Robert Goralski Robert Stanley Goralski (January 2, 1928 – March 23, 1988) was a United States news correspondent for NBC News for 15 years in the 1960s and 1970s during a 35-year career in communications. Biography Robert Goralski was born in Chicago, Illino ...

, 1949 –

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correspondent * Bob Grant – radio talk show personality * Herb Keinon – columnist and journalist for ''

The Jerusalem Post ''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper w ...

'' * Frederick C Klein, B.A. 1959 – sportswriter ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' and author * Carol Marin, A.B. 1970 – former news anchor, ''

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'' correspondent, and Illinois Journalist of the Year (1988) * Robert Novak, B.A. 1952 – political commentator and columnist *

Ian Punnett Case Ian Punnett (born March 3, 1960) is an American radio Broadcasting, broadcaster, author, professor, and Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal deacon. In the early to mid 1980s, Punnett hosted the WLRW morning show in his college town ...

– radio talk show personality, and Saturday night host of '' Coast to Coast AM'' *

B. Mitchel Reed B. Mitchel Reed (June 10, 1926 – March 16, 1983) was a successful American disc Jockey on both Top 40 and album-oriented rock radio stations, working in New York and Los Angeles during his 25-year career. Career Born Burton Mitchel Goldberg in ...

, B.S., M.A. – popular radio personality in Los Angeles and New York * Dan Savage – advice columnist (''

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'') and theater director * Gene Shalit, 1949 – film critic * Douglas Wilson – television personality and designer Literature *

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, B.S. 1931 – author of 1950

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-winning '' The Man With the Golden Arm'' *

Ann Bannon Ann Weldy (born September 15, 1932), better known by her pen name Ann Bannon, is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as ''The Beebo Brinker Chronicles''. The books' enduring popularity and impac ...

, B.A. 1955 – pulp fiction author of "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles" * Dee Brown, M.S. 1951 – author of '' Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' *

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, M.A., Ph.D. –

literary executor The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed wo ...

for

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, B.A. 1989 – author of ''

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'' *

Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. Eggers is also the founder of ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', a lite ...

, attended 1980s and 90s, B.S. 2002 – author of ''

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'' * Stanley Elkin, B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1961 – National Book Critics Circle Award winner for ''George Mills'' in 1982 and for ''Mrs. Ted Bliss'' in 1995 *

Lee Falk Lee Falk (), born Leon Harrison Gross (; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips ''Mandrake the Magician'' and ''The Phantom''. At the ...

, 1932 – creator of The Phantom and

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Irene Hunt Irene Hunt (May 18, 1907 – May 18, 2001) was an American children's writer known best for historical novels. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for her first book, ''Across Five Aprils'', and won the medal for her second, '' Up a Ro ...

, B.A. 1939 – Newbery Medal-winning author of ''Up a Road Slowly'' *

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