11/21/2025
As we close out our fall season, I want to offer my congratulations to our December graduates, Mallory Miller and Andrew Burkey.
Andrew has one more Power Play and one final call of Illinois Hockey ahead of him—a program he not only contributed to, but helped build from the ground up. It’s become an award-winning cornerstone of UI7, and his leadership has been a major part of that success.
Mallory ends her UI7 Newsroom career having completed nine episodes of our newest show, The Quad. Considering we walked in on Week 1 thinking GMI and by Week 5 were debuting The Quad, she put in the work to make the show not only possible, but poised for a very bright future.
With The Quad, En Vivo Contigo, and Illinois in Session wrapping late last week and early Monday, and now the final shows of UI7 Live and GMI completed, that’s a full wrap on our fall season. Both UI7 Live and GMI will return in the spring on February 16 and 21. Power Play and one more Illinois Hockey game will officially close out our fall on December 5. I couldn’t be prouder of these students.
We’ve made big changes this semester—and there are more to come. We are building a stronger foundation every day.
On December 2 and 3, we’ll hold auditions for new anchors who will begin in Fall 2026. We have a large group of freshmen and sophomores already getting a head start in the newsroom, more than 15 new producers signed up as assistant producers next semester, and 20 advanced and beginner students ready to tell the stories of our community.
UI7 Newsroom is a fully student-run production studio, and the growth we’re seeing is undeniable. Every day, this program gets stronger.
