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New JMC Course Strengthens Multimedia Mindset
Multimedia Storytelling, new to JMC this spring, provides students with a deeper understanding of the best ways to tell stories in different media. The course builds on skills learned in other JMC courses and helps students develop a multimedia mindset in their approach to storytelling and reporting…
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JMC Professors and Students Examine Sports History, American Culture in New Anthology
Why are Americans fixated on sports? And how does our national fixation influence our understanding of American history, the American way of life, and the American dream? American History through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports (ABC-Clio/Praeger, 2013), an ambitious new …
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JMC Professor Wins JEA 2013 Teacher Inspiration Award
Candace Perkins Bowen, associate professor and director of the Center for Scholastic Journalism, has been named the 2013 Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award winner by the Journalism Education Association (JEA). The award recognizes a journalism teacher who “through excellent instruction inspi…
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JMC Faculty Office Changes
Four JMC faculty and staff members were on the move in December, changing office spaces in time for the start of spring semester. Among those with new Franklin Hall addresses: * John Butte, coordinator for career services, is now located in room 204E Franklin, and can be reache…
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91ֿ’s Online PR Graduates Highlight Academic Success, Convenience and Diversity
For some students graduating from 91ֿ on Saturday, Dec. 15, their walk across the stage at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center will be their first time actually stepping foot on campus. On that day, 16 students from around the country graduate from 91ֿ’s online mast…
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91ֿ’S Journalism School Creates Cell Phone Photography Class
It is unusual to find someone who does not have a cell phone these days. It is even more unusual to find a cell phone without a camera. 91ֿ’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has a photojournalism program, as well as photography classes. So, why not create a class about …
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ESPN Investigative Unit Producer To Visit 91ֿ
Dwayne Bray, senior coordinating producer for ESPN, will visit 91ֿ in November to share insight into how ESPN manages to balance its journalistic duties and its business relationships with the top sports leagues and conferences whose games it broadcasts. Bray, who oversees repor…
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91ֿ’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication Presents “Dreamscape Diary”
A special reception and opening of “Dreamscape Diary,” a photo exhibit byBrooke DiDonato, a senior photojournalism student at 91ֿ, will take place on Monday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Franklin Hall. The solo show gathers select images from an impressive, yearlong conceptual p…
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Students Team With Researchers To Uncover the Invisible
With a grant from the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation, 91ֿ at Stark students have set out to find what exactly is contaminating the Nimishillen Creek watershed. This project, called “Making the Invisible Visible: Water Quality in Stark County,” is led by 91ֿ Stark with particip…
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91ֿ Presents World-Renowned Photographer Frédéric Brenner, Oct. 29
91ֿ presents a lecture by Frédéric Brenner, a contemporary French photographer documenting the lives of the Jewish community, on Monday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The lecture is free and open to the public. Brenner is best known for his opus “Diaspora,”…
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