Briefly . . .
•The Franklin Hall renovation project has earned an Immy Award from the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce. The group presented four Immy Awards to people and organizations for their efforts in cultivating Kent-area businesses.
•Graduate Coordinator, Von Whitmore, was named Vice Chair of the Council of Divisions at the AEJMC convention. She will move up to Chair in two years and will be a member of the national board for four years. The Council is responsible for working with divisions and interest groups within AEJMC to plan the annual conventions. Von also is the outgoing chair of the Commission on the Status of Women. Gary Hanson, associate professor, was elected research chair for the RTV Division. And, assistant professor, Candace Bowen, was named incoming Head of the Scholastic Journalism Division.
•Associate Prof. Gary Hanson’s Media, Power and Culture (MPC) web site captured first place in AEJMC’s highly competitive Best of the Web contest, Teaching Site category.
•Hanson and Paul Haridakis, associate professor in Comm Studies, had the top faculty paper in the RTV division at AEJMC. The paper was entitled “YouTube Users: Watching and Sharing the News.”
•If you are a second semester sophomore and have not declared your major, you should do it soon. Go to 202C Taylor Hall and fill out the form. You must have a “B-” average in English I and English II, a 2.75 or higher GPA, currently in or finished with JMC 20003 (Intro to Mass Comm) or JMC 20001 (Media, Power and Culture) with a "C-" or better, and 30 hours completed at Kent.
KentNewsNet:
Product of
a converged newsroom
CCI Commons thriving
in its new home
Almost 170 students live in Olson Hall Learning Community. Click here for a Co-Lab report.
Over the years and under different call letters, station provides campus music
Listen to a special 'radio-style' oral history of Black Squirrel Radio. Audio is in MP3 format
Who is this man?
1920s KSU trustee had a hand in just about everything we hold dear: the School, our new building, and the Kent Stater. How? Read more
Teaming Up
JMC's Collaborative Hour helps students learn to work together to produce quality stories. Read more
JMC photo majors spend a day shooting life in Portage County. Read story and watch and listen to an audio photo galleries. Click here
Hands-on experience
JMC students get solid backgrounds in preparation for 'real world.' Read story/watch videos
The stories behind the stories...
•How Kent JMC got to be Kent JMC. Read more
•Tales and oddities of our student media. Read more
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It's official:
JMC celebrates grand opening of Franklin Hall
The president spoke. The dean spoke. The director spoke. It's official: Franklin Hall is open. Read the speeches, look at the photos, watch a video, take a tour of the building.
Talkin' convergence; JMC students blog, vlog, podcast
JMC alums: Join us May 23-24
for Alumni Weekend
Travel back in time with us at our first JMC Alumni Weekend in the beautiful, hi-tech Franklin Hall.
You'll get to see old friends and learn a few things on May 23-24. There will be a reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday ($10) and a trip downtown for a Ray's Reception.
On Saturday, there will be sessions on social media, a lunch/discussion with JMC Pulitzer Prize winners, and building and campus tours.
RSVP at jmc@kent.edu or at 330-672-8281.
JMC, Franklin Hall hosting
Trustees, media officials
Kent JMC has been hosting a number of important meetings this semester, as professionals and University officials get to see the renovated Franklin Hall.
The Board of Trustees met here, as did officials from the Plain Dealer.
The Grand Opening was in April. See coverage here.
Click here for photos of the Trustees meeting in Franklin.
New editors, managers
selected for summer, fall
Student managers and editors have been selected for summer and fall 2008 by the JMC Media Board.
They include:
Christina Stavale, summer Stater editor; Shay Strode, summer Stater sales manager; Sarah Nusinow, Burr editor; Tim Magaw, fall Stater editor; and Nate Sargent, fall Stater sales manager.
Others are James Buechle, TV2 news director; Kyle Miller, TV2 general manager; Halley Miller, BSR general manager; Adam Griffiths, Fusion editor; Theresa Bruskin, Artemis editor; and Doug Hite, Luna Negra editor.
Diversity Journalism Institute set for summer at Kent JMC
The Summer Diversity Journalism Institute hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is a program that offers students first-hand experience in electronic and print media.
Workshops are taught by JMC professors and throughout the course of the week, students are introduced to media writing, photography, page design, camera operation, audio and scriptwriting.
Here are important links:
• Institute
brochure
• Application
for new student
• Application
for returning student
TV2 goes live . . . in hi def
After two days of tryouts, weeks of practice and months of learning new high def equipment and software, TV2 has gone live. We've got it covered. Click here for stories, video, audio slideshow and staff list.
JMC students win SPJ
Region 4 media awards
JMC students won 15 awards, including five first places, in the annual SPJ Region 4 competition.
First place winners were: James Everetts for both Television Feature and Television General News Reporting; Chris Sharron for Editorial Cartooning; CyBurr staff for Best Affiliated Web site; and TV2 staff for Best Television Newscast.
Second place winners were: Elise Franco, Non-Fiction Article; Kyle Miller, Television General News Reporting; Chris Sharron, Editorial Cartooning; BSR staff, Radio Sports Reporting; and Burr staff, Best Student Magazine.
Third place winners included: Steve Bushong, Non-Fiction Article;; Jill Byerly, Feature Photography; Kyle Miller, Television Feature; Daily Kent Stater staff, Best All-Around Daily Newspaper; and UHURU magazine staff, Best Student Magazine.
Murray wins BEA award
Assistant professor Joe Murray has won a national writing competition sponsored by the Broadcast Education Association. His research report, "Adapt or Die: A Ten-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools Stuck in the Fourth Estate," won first place in the Courses, Curricula and Administration division. The report explores strategies that universities might apply to modernize their journalism curricula. The report may be downloaded by clicking here.
JMC students capture awards
in Hearst Photo Competition
PhotoJournalism major David Foster has won ninth place
in the national Hearst Journalism Awards Photo Competition. Senior Gavin
Jackson took 18th place in the annual competition.
JMC celebrating 20th
anniversary in 2007-2008
After two years of secret meetings and noisy negotiations, the School of Journalism and the Department of Telecommunications got hitched starting in 1987-1988. Read story.
Jacquie Marino wins award
from Folio magazine
MediaMindsets conference
explores new audiences
Grad program adds options
in PR, scholastic journalism
Staying on the cutting edge, JMC's master's program now offers options in public relations, scholastic journalism, and convergence. The Co-Lab has a report. Read it here.
Post's Singletary
wins
McGruder Diversity Award
PRSSA site named best among student chapters
JMC's PRSSA chapter has won its third consecutive Teahan Award from PRSA. The group won for its 2006-2007 Web site. Online Media Manager was recent grad, Jennifer Farquhar. The announcement was made at the PRSA/PRSSA conference in Philadelphia. Last year, Prof. Michele Ewing was named top PRSSA chapter adviser, and the year before that the Kent chapter was honored for best relationship with a professional chapter. Click here to view the site.
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