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Society of Professional Journalists Recognizes Kent State with Two National Honors
Kent State has won two finalist placements in the national Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) 2013 Mark of Excellence Awards: the Burr’s “The KSU Bucket List” issue (November 2013) for Best Student Ma gazine, and JMC senior Brian Smith’s “Piling On” for Best…
School of Media and Journalism
PROMISING STARTS: FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2017
First impressions. First classes. First days of independence. Freshmen in JMC’s class of 2017, like college freshmen of every era, started college filled with apprehensions and aspirations. But today’s freshmen face some remarkable new challenges, too: sweeping technological changes tha…
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JMC Advances to Fifth Place in Prestigious Hearst Competition
With its latest fifth-place finish in the national Hearst Multimedia News Competition, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at 鶹 is tied for fifth place in the overall multimedia rankings to date, with final intercollegiate winners to be named in April. This is t…
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TV2 Wins Station of the Year, Best Entertainment Show at CMA Awards
For the second year in a row, 鶹’s TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Association’s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 TV Station of the Year award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. TV2 is Kent State’s nationally award-winning, high-defin…
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JMC RE-LAUNCHES KENT’S CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is back at Kent State and quickly gaining new ground. NABJ Kent is an organization of journalists, students and media professionals that encourages students of color to work in student media. NABJ membership is open to all JMC students an…
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JMC INTRODUCES NEW FOUR-YEAR FINANCIAL AWARDS FOR INCOMING FRESHMEN
Applications Accepted from Dec. 1 to February 1. To attract and retain the strongest journalism and mass communication students in the nation, JMC is introducing a financial award program specifically designed for first-time freshmen entering our School in fall semester 2014. The Promising Schola…
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Students Invited to Open Session on JMC Accreditation on Nov. 13
JMC students are encouraged to attend an information session with Dr. Trevor Brown, Professor Emeritus and retired Dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism, who will visit JMC from Nov. 12-14, as part of JMC’s reaccreditation process. Dr. Brown is a member of the Accrediting C…
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Student Gallery Focuses on Hydraulic Fracturing
The culture of coal mining. The process of hydraulic fracturing. The impact on a community. These are the themes explored in “The Fracturing of Greene County,” a gallery showing by Jacob Byk, a junior visual journalism major, and Daniel Moore, a senior news major, that will be pre…
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TV2 Wins Station of the Year, Best Entertainment Show at CMA Awards
For the second year in a row, TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Association’s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 “TV Station of the Year” award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. “The Agenda,” TV2’s topical comedy-satire show, also won “Best TV Entertain…
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Kent State Faculty Member Joins Tinker Tour
First the Tinker Tour came to Kent State. Now Kent State has joined the Tinker Tour. JMC Professor and Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism Mark Goodman spoke to high school students and teachers at the 50th Annual Kettle Moraine Press Association Fall Conference in Whitewater, Wisc., on O…
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