Julie Serkosky, University of Connecticut
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Julie A. Serkosky worked in the Journal Inquirer newsroom for 22 years covering local and Connecticut politics, town councils, boards of education and police and fire. She rose through the ranks as a reporter and local news editor to become the newspaper’s state editor, handling copy covering state laws and state lawmakers, including the resignation of former Gov. John G. Rowland.
She began teaching part-time in 1998 and full-time in 2014 at the University of Connecticut, where she specializes in multimedia journalism, multiplatform editing, newswriting, ethics and history. In 2020 she was promoted from assistant professor-in-residence to associate professor-in-residence.
She is a member of the Connecticut Student Journalism Collaborative, which in 2024 through its CT Community News site produced a package on the state’s new minimum wage. The stories were published in Connecticut and in the region.
She has been a Scripps Howard Entrepreneurship Institute fellow as well as a fellow at the Reynolds Business Week at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Arizona. Her interests include business reporting, entrepreneurial journalism and music journalism focusing on the Grateful Dead and the 1960s San Francisco scene.
Bio
Julie A. Serkosky worked in the Journal Inquirer newsroom for 22 years covering local and Connecticut politics, town councils, boards of education and police and fire. She rose through the ranks as a reporter and local news editor to become the newspaper’s state editor, handling copy covering state laws and state lawmakers, including the resignation of former Gov. John G. Rowland.
She began teaching part-time in 1998 and full-time in 2014 at the University of Connecticut, where she specializes in multimedia journalism, multiplatform editing, newswriting, ethics and history. In 2020 she was promoted from assistant professor-in-residence to associate professor-in-residence.
She is a member of the Connecticut Student Journalism Collaborative, which in 2024 through its CT Community News site produced a package on the state’s new minimum wage. The stories were published in Connecticut and in the region.
She has been a Scripps Howard Entrepreneurship Institute fellow as well as a fellow at the Reynolds Business Week at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Arizona. Her interests include business reporting, entrepreneurial journalism and music journalism focusing on the Grateful Dead and the 1960s San Francisco scene.