Author: Chris Snider (Chris Snider)

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...

Dean’s assistant Carla McCrea is retiring on Feb. 10 after 28 years at Drake! Faculty, staff, students and alums are invited to a farewell reception on Friday, Feb. 5, 3-4:30 p.m., in the north lobby of Meredith Hall.

Professor Chris Snider will offer three workshops this spring on social media strategies, new digital tools and shooting better smartphone video. Snider has been teaching classes and workshops in social media and digital media at Drake since 2010. He has helped dozens of local businesses build strategies for how they should be using social media,...

J Term classes brighten winter days in Meredith Hall Students participating in SJMC-taught January Term classes are creating a buzz around Meredith Hall and around the state this month: Professor Lee Jolliffe’s visual communication class is making fun use of the TV studio green screen and non-SJMC majors in Professor Kelly Bruhn’s PR principles students...

T-D editor, student reporting featured on Iowa Public Radio Times-Delphic editor-in-chief Tim Webber and Rachel Paine Caufield, associate professor of politics and associate director of citizen engagement at the Harkin Center, were featured on a recent edition of the Iowa Public Radio talk show River to River. Webber and Caufield discussed the issues important to millennial voters...