Department of Communication

Journalism major, Rhea Panela, reflects on her educational journey in this special column for the Seattle Times.
 

Debate team claims 2017 Novice National Champion title

What's next for communication professor David Domke? Championing the causes he values and that are under attack today.

The Seattle Globalist, founded at the UW, reports on pressing political and social issues through the lens of diverse contributors. 

UW professors Christopher Sebastian Parker and David Domke joined Wellspring Family Services vice president R. Keith Myers to discuss the question: Is President Trump gaslighting us?

Meghan Peters (BA, 2008), who got her start at The Daily, is now developing strategic partnerships at Facebook.

Since the emergence of an unverified dossier with salacious claims about President-elect Donald Trump, Americans have debated the ramifications of the arrival of “kompromat."

Whether the kompromat exists, the term has entered the public discourse," writes Katy Pearce, assistant professor of communication at the UW.

Ruchika Tulshyan, lecturer of communication at the UW, and Tracey Whitten of The Seattle Women's Commission are quoted.

Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director of the UW’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, talked with KUOW about coded racial language.

Why chatbot Tay’s creators at Microsoft shut it down after less than 24 hours of existence. Samuel Woolley, doctoral student in communication at the UW, is quoted. 

If your New Year's resolution is to deepen your skill sets, January is bound to give you a fast start to achieving that very goal.

Gov. Jay Inslee Thursday signed his first reprieve of a death-row convict, part of his moratorium on Washington’s death penalty.

What lessons can be learned at the intersection of the community college and doctoral education in the humanities? Rachel Arteaga provides some answers.

David Horsey — a Seattle native and UW alumnus —  has been covering presidential politics since 1980, but he has never experienced anything like this campaign.