Author: Chris Snider (Chris Snider)

Urban Plains wins BEA “Best of Festival” award Urban Plains — the 2015 senior capstone website for the SJMC magazine, news and electronic media students — has won the student interactive multimedia “Best of Festival” award at this year’s Broadcast Education Association contest. The BEA Festival of Media Arts is an international refereed exhibition of faculty...

Stop by Mer. 119 and say hello to Mallory Quinn! Mallory Quinn, who has been hired to replace Carla McCrea as the SJMC dean’s assistant, comes to us from Iowa State University, where she was an academic adviser in the college of engineering. Mallory is already familiar with Drake, however, because she is working on her master’s...

Stop by Mer. 119 and sign Carla’s retirement card SJMC dean’s assistant Carla McCrea is retiring on Wednesday after 28 years at Drake. Stop by her office, Mer. 119, to say goodbye and sign her retirement card. SJMC students win Iowa college media awards SJMC students won 25 awards last week in the Iowa College Media...

On Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m., the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies will host Carlos Ibarra — producer, writer, actor and runner — for our Visiting Professional Series. Ibarra and a small team of young filmmakers produced a short documentary series, “Run Carlos Run,” that features Ibarra’s run across America and the stories...

The Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be hosting a summer journalism camp at Drake University in Des Moines July 6-9, 2015. Registration is now open for the camp. Media Now Drake will include intense training for high school journalism students ready to take their digital media skills to the next level....

Welcome to Caucus Day 2016! SJMC students are getting a front row seat to the political action by helping out with media and campaigns all over town — and being the first in line at 4 a.m. this morning to be in the “studio audience” for NPR’s “Morning Edition” at Smokey Row coffee house east of campus (above)....

The official Caucus Media Center at the Capital Square downtown opened at 8 a.m. today (Thursday, Jan. 28) and needs volunteers through next Monday to help with credentialing, running errands, helping the media, etc. Unpaid, but free meals and great experience to be at the eye of the political storm. Details: Help needed — today through Monday 7...

Welcome back to Drake and Iowa Caucus craziness! SJMC students awarded Dow Jones News Fund internships Two news-Internet juniors have landed highly competitive Dow Jones News Fund internships for summer 2016. Tim Webber will intern at the Kansas City Star, and Sarah LeBlanc at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Both will work on the copy desks. About 85 students...

Guess who is showing up on local TV Students aren’t the only ones keeping busy during January Term. Professor Grace Provenzano, who has extensive experience as a broadcast journalist, has been doing some reporting for KCCI-TV in Des Moines. Invitation to free film festival Define American, a national organization dedicated to promoting discussion of immigration...