Departmental News

Alums finalists in Gerald Loeb Awards
Two Washington and Lee journalism alums are finalists in the prestigious Gerald A. Loeb competition.  Mary Childs, ’08,  and Mehul Srivastava, ’04, are being recognized for work ...

W&L's Locy's MSNBC Column on Justice Department and AP
Washington and Lee University journalism professor Toni Locy is the author of a column on MSNBC in response to reports that the Justice Department examined phone records of Associated Press reporters. ...

Journalism department re-accredited
At its May 3 meeting in Phoenix, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications voted 24-0 to re-accredit the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington ...

"Rockbridge Report," W&L Students Win National Honors
The Society of Professional Journalists has named Washington and Lee's "Rockbridge Report" newscast the Best Independent Online Student Publication in the nation, and has recognized a W&am ...

W&L Professor Probes Downside—and Upside—of Social Media and Boston Coverage
Washington and Lee journalism professor Claudette Artwick, who studies social media, sees upsides and downsides of social media during the Boston bombing coverage.

Society of Professional Journalists Honors W&L Students
Rockbridge Report, the multimedia newscast of Washington and Lee's department of journalism and mass communications, swept the awards at the Society of Professional Journalists' annual Mark of ...

Goodspeed '92 Talks Naval Aviation History
Washington and Lee alumnus Hill Goodspeed '92 was featured in an interview on WALA-TV (FOX10TV) for Pensacola, Fla., and Mobile, Ala., earlier this month.

Pulitzer Prize for W&L Alum John Dahlburg '75
A series of investigative stories edited by John Dahlburg, of Washington and Lee's Class of 1975, in the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public servic ...

Doug Harwood, ’74, inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame
More than two dozen friends of Rockbridge Advocate editor Doug Harwood, W&L '74, drove from Lexington to Richmond to see him inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame on April 11. ...

Arthur Brisbane, Former Public Editor of New York Times, to Teach at W&L
Arthur S. Brisbane, a longtime journalist who most recently served as public editor of The New York Times, will be the Visiting Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University f ...

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