The School of Journalism is in the midst of its centennial this year and will launch the next 100 years with new chair R.B. Brenner, a former Washington Post editor and award-winning journalist.

This is one honor that’s not up for debate. The University of Texas at Austin speech and debate teams have won the 2014 American Forensic Association’s top overall prize, a distinction they now have claimed 19 times since the award began in 1993 — more than any other university.

Do companies and organizations focus on the wrong outcomes when using social media? According to public relations alumna Deirdre Walsh (B.S., '02), senior social strategist at Jive Software, companies should go beyond amassing likes and followers and examine the fundamental ways in which social media can alter their business.

Ben Sargent (B.J. ’70) was born into a newspaper family in 1948. As a sixth-generation Texan and native of Amarillo, he started working for a local paper as a proof runner at the age of 14, delivering proofs of advertisements to neighborhood merchants for content approval. This modest beginning in journalism launched a career that would eventually garner decades of national attention, including the Pulitzer Prize.

Karen Tumulty (B.J., ’77) recently won the Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. The 2013 competition drew 125 entries from across the nation and was selected by 33 veteran journalists.