Illinois Journalism Alumni

UI-7 News is the student-produced television newscast of the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at the University of Illinois. UI-7 News is the winner of the 2014 & 2016 NATAS Mid-America Crystal Pillar award for the best collegiate newscast. University of Illinois broadcast journalism students have been producing and airing weekly or bi-weekly TV newscasts since the 1950s. Until the

middle 1970s, student news programming aired on WILL-TV (PBS). With the arrival of cable television in Champaign-Urbana, student broadcasts started airing on various cable access and government channels in C-U. Starting in 1997, student newscasts have aired on UI-7, the University's cable TV channel, live from the Richmond Journalism Teaching Studio.