News students cover school board election Students in SJMC professor Jill Van Wyke’s junior-level public affairs reporting class started the academic year off at a sprint with comprehensive coverage of the Des Moines school board election. The students’ stories, posted on the SJMC’s Drake Digital News website, included candidate profiles, coverage of a community forum,...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 4, 2017
Student Activities Fair set for Sept. 5 The fall student activities fair will be Tuesday, Sept. 5 from 4-7 p.m. in Upper Olmsted. Representatives from campus organizations will be available to provide more information about how to get involved with their groups. Alums on the front lines — of news At least three SJMC alums have been...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Aug. 28, 2017
Welcome back to campus, from the SJMC faculty and staff! The SJMC Monday Memo is a weekly 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...
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Drake students win top awards in AEJMC contest
Drake student work won nine awards, including best website and magazine, in this year’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication magazine contest. The awards were: Best website: The senior capstone multimedia project Urban Plains General excellence: Drake Magazine First place for editorial content: Drake Magazine Second place for design: Drake Magazine First and...
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2013 grad named Fulbright Scholar
Ankita Dhussa, a 2013 radio-TV producing and sociology graduate, has been named a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar. She will be creating a multimedia project on women and transportation in India. Dhussa has been living in California and working as a user experience researcher in the tech industry. It was announced earlier that 2017 public relations graduate Kelly...
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PR students win national honors
Drake student public relations work has won a professional category in the national Association for Women in Communications 2017 Clarion Awards contest. PR students’ 2016 senior capstone campaign to promote the community of Manning, Iowa, beat professional PR entries to win the Community Relations category. The Manning work also won the student PR campaign category....
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SJMC Monday Memo | May 8
Advertising senior celebrate their capstone presentations. Ad seniors present capstone campaigns The advertising seniors presented their campaigns to the client, the National Pork Board, on Friday. The campaign targeted marketing pork products to millennial consumers. Seniors, pick up your coffee mug Seniors can get their SJMC coffee mug from Shari Tenney in Mer. 118. Good luck...
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SJMC Monday Memo | May 1
The back lobby of Meredith Hall was filled with alumni and current and retired faculty this weekend for the annual SJMC alumni reception. See more photos on Facebook. It’s official: Drake SJMC is reaccredited! The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications last week took its final vote and unanimously decided that Drake...
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SJMC Monday Memo | April 24, 2017
Congrats to SJMC’s Adams Leadership winners A host of SJMC faculty and students were nominated for awards at last week’s Adams Leadership Convocation. Among the winners: Ashley Blazek, top sophomore Haley Davis, top junior Bryann Sullivan, Drake Service Award Jake Bullington, outstanding organization officer (Times-Delphic) Kelly Bruhn, outstanding adviser (PRSSA) SJMC alum to discuss starting...
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SJMC Monday Memo | April 17, 2017
Seniors, pick up your coffee mug! Seniors can get their SJMC coffee mug from Shari Tenney in Mer. 118. D.M. Register columnist to speak Rekha Basu will discuss her work as a journalist, including her experiences writing about issues of social justice and human rights, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20, as part of the Susan...