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School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Projects

  • The Quill literary journal

    The Quill, a literary journal for middle school and high school students in Green Bay, was one of four projects selected by the Wisconsin Open Educati...

  • The Wisconsin Communication Ecology and Civic Health

    Where do Wisconsinites get information about politics? Are we stuck in partisan echo chambers, or are we broadly exposed to views of political opponen...

  • Chime In: Amplifying Accurate Information into the Wisconsin Information Ecology

    Chime In is a tool our research team is developing to help journalists and public health officials identify networks of low-quality information about...

  • The Observatory

    The Observatory is a fact-checking news site operated out of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It fact-checks Wisconsin publ...

  • Covid-19 Wisconsin Connect

    This project created an app in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to help connect Wisconsinites to verifiably accurate information about COVID-19...

  • Public Relations for Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens

    Students enrolled in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Public Relations Strategies course partnered with the Madison Area Food Pantry...

  • Headlines and Highwater

    In this choose-your-own-adventure style game, players take on the role of a journalist in the small town of Twin Lakes. When a major flood hits, the p...

  • UW Center for Journalism Ethics

    The mission of the Center for Journalism Ethics is to encourage the highest standards in journalism ethics worldwide. In service to Wisconsin journali...