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Community event to document, offer healing after 2021 Boulder shooting

Dec. 10, 2021

A Lens Towards Healing, a community event Tuesday, Dec. 14, will offer a place for reflection, story-generating and healing after the Boulder King Soopers shooting in March.

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Hear planets sing as you ‘walk’ through space in new solar system model

Dec. 7, 2021

For about 35 years, the Colorado Scale Model Solar System has delighted campus visitors by shrinking Earth's cosmic neighborhood down to a short walk. Now the exhibit is getting a new update and an interactive smartphone app.

Strategic communication students Chase Willie, Ashley Schoenbauer, Laurette Selleck and Jordan Altergott (right to left) show off their awards with  Denver student Ethan Lien (far left). The group of five won two bronze medals during the Denver One Show ceremony for their projects, "Dad Up" and "Duolingo Uncensored."

CMCI students win big at Denver One Show

Dec. 6, 2021

Six projects developed by 12 current and former strategic communication students earned awards at the Nov. 11 Denver One Show ceremony, recognized as some of the best work entered in this year’s competition.

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Upcoming CMCI One College Colloquium offers insight into wave of anti-Asian racism during pandemic

Nov. 18, 2021

The College of Media, Communication and Information invites you to join the conversation about anti-Asian racism with Professor Jennifer Ho during its upcoming One College Colloquium.

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Algorithms aren't fair. Robin Burke wants to change that

Nov. 11, 2021

The machine-learning systems that help your phone recommend music, movies, news and more can be biased in ways that leave out artists from underrepresented groups or foster polarization. Professor Robin Burke is working to change that.

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Jim Gray to receive George Norlin Award

Nov. 4, 2021

The George Norlin Award, which will be given to Gray Nov. 4, is the highest award bestowed by Boulder. It adds to Gray’s 12 Emmy awards he’s received throughout his career, recognizing his outstanding work and powerful interviews with sports icons like Tom Brady, Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Michael Jordan.

Shamika Klassen

How Black Twitter has become the new ‘Green Book’—and more

Oct. 27, 2021

Fifty-five years after a Black postal worker produced the inaugural issue of “The Green Book” to help African Americans navigate a racist society, Black Twitter is playing a similar and even broader role, suggests a new Boulder study.

Image: A viral video produced by Deadspin in March 2018 showed reporters at Sinclair stations across the country reciting the same script about "fake news."

Media consolidation takes toll on local news but doesn’t necessarily bias coverage

Oct. 21, 2021

A new analysis of 350,000 news stories produced by conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group finds when the company buys a station, local news definitely takes a hit. But it did not find any evidence, at scale, that coverage shifts toward a more conservative slant.

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Tune in to CMCI’s One College Colloquium for an inside look at ’s new Center for African and African American Studies

Oct. 20, 2021

CMCI will feature the new Center for African and African American Studies during our first One College Colloquium event of the semester on Oct. 28.

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News Engagement Day: Reimagining what it means to consume news in a healthy, sustainable way

Oct. 4, 2021

At a time where news is more accessible than ever through online platforms, it can be easy to either become addicted to the stream of news or to want to disengage from it completely. To celebrate this News Engagement Day, we caught up with a number of CMCI students and faculty to find out how they are cultivating a healthy relationship with the news.

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