Hubbard School students tell stories with writing, photography, data, design, strategy, video, audio and more. Here's a sampling of recent undergraduate work. Check back often!
Online Magazines: Magazine and Feature Writing
Students focus on a target audience and niche content each spring in Gayle Golden's Magazine and Feature Writing class. Three teams pitched, researched and wrote all articles, then published their work online. Also, check out work from previous semesters.
A protester holds a sign outside of Coffman Memorial Union, April 9, 2025. PHOTO BY CLAUDIA STAUT
Reporting on local immigrants shows both struggle and concern, leadership and unity
Reporting on local immigrants shows both struggle and concern, leadership and unity
As the threat of deportations brought new fears to students with immigrant parents, Hubbard students reported on this community's spirit and its concerns about safety and free expression at the university.
Co-editors Amelia Roessler and Jack O’Connor worked with other student journalists in the Community Journalism Practicum to create a semester-long project, AccessU: Born to Immigrants.
One in four undergraduates at the U is a first-generation college student — someone whose parents do not have four-year college degrees. Journalists in Gayle Golden's Community Journalism Practicum spent the spring semester bringing the voices of first-generation students to the forefront about the accessibility of high education in the immediate years to come.
Magazine & Feature Writing
STORY BY ALEXANDRA DEYOE / The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
STORY BY RAINA BREWER / The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Broadcast, digital writing and reporting
Student projects take shape in a course for writing in broadcast and digital style, video photojournalism, and digital video editing.
Dedication to fashion
Dedication to fashion
Designing, modeling and producing, Junior Ian Friske focuses on the runway.
Story by Eitan Schoenberg
Protest closures at UMN
Protest closures at UMN
Pro-Palestinian protestors occupy buildings on the East Bank Campus
Story by Eitan Schoenberg
Who is protesting?
Who is protesting?
Understanding the voices behind conflict on the Twin Cities campus
Story by Eitan Schoenberg
Five of the student journalists participating in the Hubbard Reporting Experience produced stories for a twice-weekly newscast. Tim Blotz from Fox 9, KMSP started us off, anchoring the first show on Tuesday, August 6. Watch the third show here, anchored by Brittney Ermon from KSTP 5 Eyewitness News on August 13. Morgan Wolfe from KARE 11 was guest anchor on Thursday, August 8.
Students Katrina Bailey, Madisyn Brey, Jelani Howard and Alejandro Alvarez de Alva watch the first live newscast with faculty member Matt Cikovic (back right). Hubbard staff and faculty manage the controls. PHOTO BY REGINA MCCOMBS
Are you wondering what the 2024 Hubbard Reporting Experience is all about? The second annual workshop just ended. Think about applying for a paid fellowship next summer. Here are reflections from the first few days:
"It's an extremely valuable, compressed experience. (It's) what a newsroom feels like — how it works, the rhythm of it, the pulse of it, the demands of it, the fun of it. There’s camaraderie, and there are conventions and standards that students have to adhere to. All of that put together in a 10-day period, I think, is really valuable for them to understand in a way that can't happen in the classroom." — GAYLE GOLDEN, HUBBARD SENIOR LECTURER
"The community involvement and the chance to get hands-on practice with motivated people are big draws to me." — HENRY STAFFORD, PARTICIPANT
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Posted April 10, 2024
As Gen-Z comes of age, they’re finding their voice in the “Movement of Movements,” and Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota is helping them do just that. Journalism major Sommer Wagen's story about student activism is an excellent example of capturing scene, character in scene and a focused story that includes context as well as observed detail. Read on.
Congratulations to students who won top awards in Twin Cities advertising competition
This is a big deal! In one of the most competitive creative competitions in the country, these Hubbard students won in the annual Twin Cities Advertising Federation competition, The Show.
From left, Cooper Olson and Adam Bergh won a silver award for their campaign for Idaho Tourism. Eleanor Snee, Abbey Jones, Bonnie Young, and Marian Masinda won bronze for Bachman's Nursery, "Plants aren't kids."
Their entries now move on to the Ad Fed regional competition.
Photojournalism students work to reflect the Twin Cities community: A great image captures a true storytelling moment. Above are a few nice moments from Hubbard Senior Fellow Regina McCombs class in the fall 2023 semester.
Backpack is a student-driven agency that manages branding strategy for professional clients. Check out their clients!
MAGAZINE EDITING AND DESIGN
MAGAZINE EDITING AND DESIGN
The Magazine Editing and Production course works in the style of a newsroom staff to produce a print publication, online site, podcasts, social media and more.
PHOTOJOURNALISM
PHOTOJOURNALISM
From general news to feature photography, students concentrate on capturing essential moments in Photojournalism.
Class Critique Sessions: Students, above, look over the first draft of magazines they designed in a media design class. Each project through the semester is shown for feedback and critique — just part of the skills they practice in this hands-on course.
Hubbard journalism students were the first to use the new studio in Murphy Hall in the spring of 2023. Time in this leading-edge learning environment offers them a chance to feel comfortable with the tools and technologies used by professionals in the field.
Students put attention on hidden communities around campus in a spring practicum. The class, which has run since 2017, has covered the communities of disability, recovery, rurality, nontraditional enrollees, Black identities, mental health diagnoses and LGBTQ+ students. This year, the class is covering first generation students.
To better understand how a creative process might help to solve business problems students work on strategies for media campaigns like Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement fighting to protect people from gun violence.
THE HUBBARD SUMMER REPORTING EXPERIENCE
Journalism students get a chance for hands-on experience covering communities around the Twin Cities campus as it's done in professional newsrooms. In addition to clips and coaching from faculty and professionals on their stories, participants receive a stipend for their work over three weeks in the summer. During an intensive three weeks, and coached by Hubbard School instructors Marissa Evans, Gayle Golden, Scott Libin, Regina McCombs, Sara Quinn, and Seth Richardson, students learn everything from newswriting and broadcast to photojournalism and graphic design.
Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication / 111 Murphy Hall, 206 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Contact: Sara Quinn, squinn@umn.edu
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