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•Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., has been named the Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at Kent JMC. This summer he received the prestigious Gerald Sass Award from ASJMC. He’ll join the faculty in January.
•Candace Bowen, director of the Scholastic Media Program in JMC, has been appointed an assistant professor on a tenure track.
•Kent student media have begun the trek to a much closer working partnership. Look for their new, converged site, KentNewsNet. Later this semester, student media staffers will move into the converged newsroom in the new addition to Franklin Hall.
•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.../feature/2007/October/metamorphosis/project/publish_to_web/index.html
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
Hands-on experience
JMC students get solid backgrounds in preparation for 'real world.' Read story/watch videos
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
The stories behind the stories...
•How Kent JMC got to be Kent JMC. Read more
•Tales and oddities of our student media. Read more
The Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication is a nationally known program. It offers journalism degrees in magazine journalism, news journalism, broadcast journalism, visual journalism, electronic media production, public relations, and advertising.
The JMC Web site is produced by the Collaborative Online Producing class and Web Editor, Fred Endres.
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Singletary wins
McGruder Diversity Award
OCA names Scott Juba top Ohio graduate student
Scott Juba, a recent master's graduate, has been named the top graduate student in the state by the Ohio Communication Association.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.
Rich Ramhoff
wins
Taylor Award at first 'Franklin Homecoming'
Kent JMC welcomed back more than 120 grads and friends for the first Homecoming celebration in beautifully renovated Franklin Hall. A social hour was followed by a brunch and the awards presentation. The William Taylor Award this year went to Rich Ramhoff, '89, vice president of Gannett's Midwest Group and president and publisher of the Lansing, Mich. State Journal. Rachel Dissell and Jon Wile received Friends of JMC Awards. And, Anne Reid, of the College of Arts office, received the JMC Director's Service Award.
Center for Privacy
has new name, mission
The new Media Center for Ethics and Access offers more help to professionals. Read more
JMC gets
Knight Chair
in scholastic journalism
A $2 million endowment establishes
the Knight Foundation's 20th chair in journalism.
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