Congratulations to our scholarship and award winners!
We can’t celebrate on campus this spring, but we’d like to offer virtual applause all this week to the winners of the annual SJMC awards and scholarships. Each day, we will publish the names of the students who have been recognized for their academic achievements, hard work, skills and enthusiasm for the craft of communication. Today we recognize:
Woodward Award for Public Affairs Reporting – Sarah Bogaards, Lorien MacEnulty, Shannon Rabotski
Established by gifts from SJMC alumni to honor Robert D. Woodward, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of journalism, upon his retirement to recognize excellence in public affairs reporting
Meredith Apprentices (2019-20) – Editorial: JD Pelegrino, Emily Larson, Samantha Jones, Carson Reichardt, Caitlin Clement, Madi Koetting. Design: Nick Ellis, Katie Segler, Madison Kelly. Data Marketing: Julia Lanzel
Karyl Van Scholarship (2019-20) – Madison Kelly
Named after a longtime employee of the Meredith Corp. who devoted his working life to magazine publishing, the recipient of this award works in the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies
Meredith Corporation Scholars (2019-20) – Cheyann Neades, Madi Koetting, Ashley Flaws, Fatima Calderon Ceron, Kaili Miller, Emily Larson
These endowed scholarships support magazine majors in their studies
Patricia Prijatel Storyteller Award – Lorien MacEnulty
Named for a former SJMC director and founder of the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies, this award recognizes the student who best displays the ability to find, report, write, and publish stories that both inform and inspire
Alumni news
Tracy Baim, JO’84, has been named one of Chicago’s most powerful women by Chicago magazine. As the article says, “As a cofounder of Windy City Times, the veteran journalist has long been revered as a leading voice and tireless organizer in the city’s LGBTQ community. But when she took over as publisher of the [Chicago] Reader in late 2018, Baim added another designation to her public profile: the face of independent media in the city.”
Get paid to write for the T-D this spring
The Drake Times-Delphic is still running online! Stories and campus updates can be found at http://timesdelphic.com/. The newspaper also needs writers! Writers will be paid $14.50 for each story contributed. If you are interested, please reach out to T-D editor Rachel James at rachel.james@drake.edu.
Have a news item for the Memo?
The SJMC Monday Memo is a newsletter to keep members of the wider SJMC community updated on School news, achievements, events and opportunities. If you have an item for the Memo, please send it to Dean Kathleen Richardson (kathleen.richardson@drake.edu) or SJMC webmaster and multimedia professor Chris Snider (christopher.snider@drake.edu). SJMC alums and other professionals can also subscribe to the Monday Memo via email here: http://eepurl.com/bPNbxn
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication strives to create a community of scholars that represents the complexity of the human experience in regards to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, political views, gender identification, religion, age and physical abilities. We are committed to creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all our faculty, staff, students and visitors, and celebrating our differences through the lens of the First Amendment value of freedom of expression.