Department of Communication

An audio documentary about young activists in the former Soviet Union earns UW faculty a top journalism award.

Nora Strothman talks about a bench placed at the University of Washington in honor of her husband Bill, a graduate of economics and communication who died in a helicopter crash.

David Horsey is a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist who graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in communication in 1975.

KUOW's Bill Radke asked Hanson Hosein, director of the Communication Leadership program at the University of Washington about the FCC's latest ruling.

The group of 52 plans to see people and places that were key to the civil-rights efforts in the 1950s and 1960s, and are still important today.

How do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations? KUOW put that question to Ralina Joseph, associate professor of communication.

UW Communications Professor Philip Howard weighs in on this generation's digital 'gateway drug for activism.'

Twitter hashtags adorned posters at protests across the country Saturday. Philip Howard, professor of communication, is quoted.

Books make great gifts. Books by Arts & Sciences alumni? Even better. Here are some recent arrivals, from fiction to nonfiction to memoir to poetry.

Fendall Yerxa, former ABC News anchor, Washington bureau chief for The New York Times and UW journalism professor, died Oct. 19 at 101.

In an op-ed piece, Philip Howard, professor of communication, looks at Hungary's "autocratic crackdown on the nation's press."

KUOW talks with Cooper Inveen, a UW journalism student, about his experience in Sierra Leone as Ebola spread through West Africa.

NPR's CodeSwitch blog picked the brains of three people who have focused on depictions of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in the media to look at "yellowface" casting. LeiLani Nishime, assistant professor of communication, was one of the experts.

The latest surge in fighting between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip has seen both sides revive an intense social media battle. Philip Howard, professor of communication, comments.

Based on data from online education platform Coursera, Business Insider compiled a list of the 12 most popular, free online classes for working professionals. UW Introduction to Public Speaking is listed at number nine.