Our The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism won an IRE Award (Student - Large) for their "Planes, Trains and Luxury Stays" investigation into congressional travel! Congrats to all the #merrillmade students, faculty & staff who made this happen! ire.org/announcing-the…

We are so excited to share our 2025 commencement speakers will be @ESPN MSG Networks 🏀 analyst McNutt Monica & graduating senior Jenna Bloom! Our graduation ceremony will be May 21 in Reckord Armory. 🎓 MORE: merrill.umd.edu/articles/espns…

So grateful to Kimmy Duong for pledging $1 million to establish the Giving Back Maryland Promise Scholarship! The program will fund need-based awards for Merrill College and UMD Public Policy undergrads from MD or D.C. The gift will be matched dollar for dollar as part of the

Good luck on finals, #merrillmade Terps! 📚 Finish the semester strong 💪 and find a study buddy while you're at it! 😄 #fearlessjournalism ⭐: Katherine Schutzman & rafael lorente

SO EXCITED for the SIX #merrillmade students were selected for the prestigious Dow Jones News Fund internship program this summer! Congratulations to: Sasha Allen (Connecticut Mirror), olivia borgula (Advertising Specialty Institute), Isabella Carrero-Baptista (Stars and Stripes), Ela Jalil

Thanks to a $200,000 grant from Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation, our The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism will build a 4-course data journalism training program that will be accessible to professional journalists around the world! 🧵

A BIG 👍 🎉 🥳 👏 to our @cnsmd, which won 17(!!!) awards competing against professionals in this year's MDDCPress contest! CNS placed 1st in 15 categories & second in two others. #merrillmade students Alisha Camacho '24 & Ricky Podgorski '25 each placed first 2x. 🧵

Ready to relive graduation and peep the photo gallery? We are, too! 🎓 Check out over 200 photos of our #merrillmade grads, the livestream video and the commencement program here: merrill.umd.edu/articles/merri…

We are launching our first undergraduate minor in Fall 2025 — in Media, Technology and Democracy! #UMD students in the 15-credit program will explore the history of journalism, analyze the impact of emerging media technologies, sharpen their digital literacy skills, and examine

The Dow Jones News Fund data journalism training week at #UMD's Merrill College is readying students to take on their internships and help keep communities informed! 💻 💪

Very proud of #merrillmade student Ricky Podgorski (Ricky Podgorski) for placing SECOND in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's National Television Championship! 🏆 The championships gathered 29 finalists across five categories (and out of 1,260 entries!) to complete spot assignments

Thank you to all the wonderful students who made our 2nd Dow Jones News Fund data journalism boot camp a smash! We hosted aspiring data journalists from all over the globe – from #UMD to the University of London, Stanford, Syracuse, Cal-Berkeley, Florida, Missouri, Arkansas and more. You did

SUPER HAPPY for all the #merrillmade students who placed in this year's Hearst Journalism Awards Program, the "Pulitzers of college journalism!" 🏆 Congrats to Jenna Bloom, Jess Daninhirsch, Kiersten Hacker, Dylan Jaffe, Ela Jalil, Ricky Podgorski, Molly Szymanski and Christina Walker for

INCREDIBLE NEWS! 💥 #merrillmade students made waves in this year's Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Association contest! @cnsmd reporters swept all college TV awards, including Outstanding Newscast for their Election 2024 coverage. 🧵 1/3

Merrill College's journalists are hard at work developing AI tools to advance the field of journalism, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation. Learn more about their journalism innovations at merrillcollege.umd.edu/innovation #fearlessjournalism

Learning 👏 outside 👏 the classroom 👏 That's what we do here at Merrill College! From D.C. to New York and beyond, our students are doing real journalism that makes a real impact. Where could next semester take you? 😆 #fearlessjournalism

Interviewing data and interviewing people are not so different — we swear! Being data literate is so important today, so at Merrill College we teach data journalism and incorporate it throughout our curriculum and practice. And we love it! 💻🥰💻 ⭐ Thadean Thomas

Some bittersweet news: Kathy Best (Kathy Best), founding director of our Howard Center for Investigative Journalism (The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism), will retire at the end of December. You've made a massive impact at Merrill College and we'll miss you, Kathy! 🧵

We are proud to announce five #merrillmade journalists will receive hands-on investigative reporting experiences with major nonprofit newsrooms as the Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation's NEW class of Roy W. Howard Fellows! 🧵

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