Fall 2024
Players and coaches react as the Buffs suffer a late-game collapse against Stanford in October 2023. CMCI students work as photographers and videographers from the sidelines of CU home games. Photo by Nathan Thompson (Jour’24).
CMCI is proud to announce the return of its Sports Media Summit in February.
Last year, more than 300 students from CU Boulder and high schools along the Front Range attended the daylong event, which included panel sessions with alumni such as John Branch (Bus’89; MJour’96), a Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter at The New York Times; Brendan McNicholas (Comm’00), vice president of media relations for the Colorado Avalanche; and Jay Parry (Fin’80), president and CEO of the 2024 NCAA Final Four host committee.
The Sports Media Summit is a key component of the sports media minor—among the largest minors offered at CU Boulder. The event will take place Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.
Sports reporters are never supposed to leave the game early—yet there was Jill Painter Lopez, as a student, leaving a CU-Nebraska game at halftime. (To be fair, it was well below freezing.)
Today, her determination to get the story for CBS/KCAL helped her score a solo interview with Caitlin Clark in the spring.
Correction
Due to editing errors, the class notes entry for Michele Heller (Jour’90) misrepresented her personal and professional details. Her previous work experience included being a journalist at The Washington Post as well as serving with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and for the Obama administration at a financial regulatory agency. She lives in Washington with her husband and two teenagers.
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