Take online HAVEN training now or face registration hold All Drake students are required to complete Drake’s mandatory sexual and interpersonal violence prevention training. If you take the training after Oct. 15 (Thursday), the hold on your registration may take 24 hours to remove and removal will occur only Monday-Friday. Find the training program at www.drake.edu/SMI. Volunteer...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Oct. 5, 2015
Talk with NPR diversity editor Luis Clemens on Friday Luis Clemens, National Public Radio’s senior diversity editor, will be on campus to meet with faculty and students on Friday, Oct. 9. Clemens will discuss his work and give advice on what NPR looks for in interns and new hires. He is also willing to critique...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 28, 2015
Visiting scholar from China Drake SJMC is hosting a visiting scholar from China this year. Associate Professor Jia Li teaches advertising at Sichuan International Studies University (SISU). Jia teaches design-oriented courses in China: Graphic Ad Design, Computer Graphics, Advertisement Aesthetics, Appreciation of Folk Art, and Design Art. We welcome her to our SJMC community. (Pictured:...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 21
AAF networking event for all majors The AAF of Des Moines would like to introduce you to a few important people… Meet industry professionals who are working in the career you dream about: Client Services, Copywriting, Art/Design, Media, Public Relations and more. The AAF of Des Moines Meet the Pros event gives you the opportunity...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 14
Come celebrate with us! Help us welcome our three new faculty members — Grace Provenzano, Catherine Staub and Matthew Thornton — with music and an ice cream social this Thursday, Sept. 17, 4-5:30 p.m., in the Meredith Hall atrium. (Rain location: Mer. 104.) Have lunch with a CNN producer Join Glen Dacy, FA’84, supervising producer...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 7
Awash in awards Several Drake JMC students and recent graduates are finalists in two major national contests that honor the best of collegiate journalism. The slew of recognitions, from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association, recognize reporting and writing, multimedia, design, photography and video. Read the full story. SJMC alums nominated for Emmys...
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SJMC students are finalists in national contests
Several Drake JMC students and recent graduates are finalists in two major national contests that honor the best of collegiate journalism. The slew of recognitions, from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association, recognize reporting and writing, multimedia, design, photography and video. In the Associated Collegiate Press contest: Amanda Horvath and Faith Brar are...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Aug. 31, 2015
3 new professors join faculty The SJMC welcomes three new faculty members this fall. Catherine Staub, CEO of Lexicon, was appointed as the new Fisher-Stelter chair of magazine journalism. Matt Thornton, formerly of Louisiana College, joins the PR faculty. Grace Provenzano, who comes from San Francisco State University, will teach in news and digital media...
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Drake University publication named best online magazine
Urban Plains, an innovative multimedia website by Drake University journalism students, has nabbed top honors in the 2015 national journalism educators’ awards contest. Urban Plains was named the best online magazine by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In addition, Kayli Kunkel, a graduating Drake senior from Dubuque, won first place for...
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Drake SJMC ranked in top 3 percent
The Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been ranked in the top 3% for both quality and value by collegefactual.com. The list rates schools based on “quality schools that are focused on delivering an education in Communication and Journalism and that are successful at it, with graduates among the top earners after...