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AJO Alum Signs Two-Book Deal
Maeve Dunigan (AJO 2022), a staff writer at The Dodo and regular contributor to The New Yorker, recently signed a two-book deal with Sourcebooks. The first, a book of humorous essays called "READ THIS TO LOOK COOL" will be out in 2025.
AJO student starts new podcast
Preston Moore (AJO 2024) started a new podcast called Zollypod about filmmaking and the film industry.
Announcing the winners of the 2023 American Journalism Online Awards
From Baltimore to Los Angeles to India, this year’s AJO Award-winners dug into issues including killings of transgender Americans, squalor inside Rikers Island Jail, celebrity justice, food and drink in the American South, and a 50-year-old rape case.
AJO Student Julianna LaFollette is the new calendar editor/reporter at The Source Weekly in Bend, Oregon.
AJO Adjunct Claire Tighe’s Podcast Takes Home the Best Podcast Award and Best Multimedia Collaboration at the Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards
Tighe produced the podcast, "Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders", with the Chicago Tribune.
AJO Grad Michael McILwee Wins Award From the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists
McILwee (AJO 2022) is the Digital Executive Producer at WCTV in Tallahassee. The award was given for best Website/Digital.
AJO Grad Robert Davis Wins Two Awards From the Society of Professional Journalists
The 2022 grad won first place for enterprise reporting on homelessness and third place for reporting on climate change.
AJO Adjunct Professor Claire Tighe Produced a Podcast That Took Second in the 89th Annual National Headliner Awards
The podcast, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders, was created by the Chicago Tribune. The Headliner Awards recognizes journalistic achievement in the Communications Industry.
AJO Grad Brian Bull wins three 2023 Edward R. Murrow Awards
Bull won for three pieces in different categories: writing, investigative reporting, and breaking news. The station where he is a reporter, KLCC in Eugene, Oregon, also received a Murrow for general excellence.
AJO Student Will Schick Selected to Serve on Poynter’s National Advisory Board
Schick is the Editor in Chief of Street Sense Media in Washington, DC. "I am excited for the opportunity to contribute to conversations that will help shape the future of journalism," says Schick.
AJO Longform Instructor Ted Conover Publishes New Book
Ted Conover at Amazon.com “The sparsely inhabited prairie of southern Colorado might […]
Announcing the winners of the 2022 American Journalism Online Awards
With categories like Best Tiktok Explainer, Best Use of Public Records, and Best News-Based Podcast, the AJO Awards honor excellence in reporting with an emphasis on recognizing the new ways that journalists connect with the public.