Finn Wendt, a visual journalist at Cascadia Daily News (CDN) and a 2023 Western visual journalism alum, recently completed a season-long, 40-minute documentary about the Lummi Blackhawks’ journey to defend their Division 1B state champion basketball title.
This past spring, Department of Journalism graduate Eli Voorhies presented innovative research at a leading scholarly conference, examining how global news media differ in how visuals are used within human rights reporting. The media research was presented at the Association of Borderlands Studies annual conference, held in Seattle. Eli’s study, titled “Shadows on the Wall: How The New York Times and Al Jazeera visually frame the Uyghur oppression,” was presented in the Community Borderlands panel alongside border policy and communication researchers.