Faculty News

SOJC faculty Maxwell Foxman, media and game studies; Whitney Phillips, information politics and ethics; and Will Yurman, journalism, are among 96 UO faculty who have received promotions this spring.
Associate Professor of Information Politics and Ethics Whitney Phillips discusses the ethics and draw of true crime media in the Deseret News.
In a first-of-its-kind study, Assistant Professor Alex Segrè Cohen and co-authors mapped the 32 million people in the U.S. who have limited or no access to safe drinking water and indoor plumbing.
The class of 2025 faces the highest unemployment rate in decades. But SOJC faculty help students by teaching transferrable skills and matching grads with employers, says Associate Dean Deb Morrison.
SOJC faculty and staff published an open letter to students and the UO community in The Register-Guard about the value of, and impact of ongoing attacks against, journalism and freedom of the press.
The SOJC’s Whitney Phillips, a media studies scholar and author of “The Shadow Gospel,” clears up what most people get wrong about political polarization and why it matters.
In an article in the International Journalists’ Network, SOJC Professor Damian Radcliffe writes that while generative AI can be a powerful tool for reporters, it can also be weaponized against them. 
Paul Swangard ’90, a broadcast journalism alum, has won an Emmy for NBC’s coverage of the Paris Olympics. Swangard is also an SOJC instructor of advertising and sport brand strategy.
The third season of the podcast “One Cool Story: Tales from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication” features two alumni, a senior journalism student and a former professor.
Damian Radcliffe, the SOJC’s Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, is one of eight University of Oregon faculty members to earn a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for exceptional teaching.