Hannah Lindow

At a time when meaningful storytelling shapes conversations, influences brands and sparks movements, one School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) course is teaching students how to use their voices for impact. Social Impact Storytelling (Journ176), taught by teaching faculty Adam Schrager, is designed to help students understand not just what makes a compelling story, but why it matters.
Through multimedia storytelling and real-world examples, students learn how to analyze social impa...

What does it mean to feel seen on a college campus? For Savannah Schuyler, this question sparked an in-depth journalism project, where she researched, interviewed and learned from the indigenous people surrounding her. More than that, however, this question ignited her ambition for her future career.
Schuyler, a junior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC), dreams of writing for her tribe’s newsroom. As a member of the Oneida tribe in the Turtle clan, Schuyler came to Madison...

Stepping into Tomás Dodds’ office is like stepping into his mind. His whiteboard is neatly divided into sections: Journalism 676, Public Tech Media Lab, UW Center for Journalism Ethics. His upcoming events, to do lists, due dates and meetings all written neatly serve as proof that Dodds joined the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) and hit the ground running. Within his first few weeks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dodds has revolutionized the state of journalism on and...