The National Magazine Awards were handed out earlier this month in New York City. Among the highlights: New York was named magazine of the year; National Geographic captured four awards, including the prize for top tablet magazine; Vogue won its first general excellence award in the service and fashion magazine category; and the online music magazine...
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Journalism Professor and Class Win Drake Service Learning Award
Lori Blachford, the Peggy Fisher/Larry Stelter Chair of Magazine Journalism, received the Experiential Learning Course Award at the Experiential Learning/Service Learning Showcase and Banquet held last month on the Drake campus. Blachford accepted the award for her course Media Responsibility Over Time (JMC:066) and the service learning work the class does for the Iowa Radio...
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Drake Magazine named best student magazine
Drake Magazine grabbed the title of best student magazine in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards announced Monday. Drake University also had two winners in individual categories. Meagan Flynn won the newspaper feature writing category with her article titled “Crew’s Biggest Supporter, 101-year-old,” which ran in the Times-Delphic last spring....
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WHDH Producer Shares Boston Experience
When Chris Parrish finished his Broadcast News studies in May 2005 he shot and edited sports content for Championship Productions in his hometown Ames. Little did he imagine eight years later he’d be on duty as a line producer at WHDH-TV when two bombs ended the Boston Marathon. Parrish told the JMC173 Broadcast Reporting class...
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SJMC alums honored over Relays weekend
Two SJMC alums were honored by the University during events over Relays weekend 2013. Brian Wansink, a 1984 graduate of the master’s program, received the Drake Alumni Achievement Award. Wansink is an expert on consumer behavior and nutritional science and author of the best-selling book Mindless Eating. He is the director of the Cornell Food...
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B-News Students Score at IBNA Convention
Drake students accepted five first-place awards, including Best Radio Newscast, during the Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Johnston Saturday. Drake Broadcast News junior and DBS President Erin Hassanzadeh received a $500 scholarship funded by friends and family of Eliot Keller, co-founder of pioneer KRNA-FM, Iowa City, and co-owner/general manager of KZIA/KGYM, Cedar Rapids. Keller...
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Eric Hanson Visits Broadcast Reporting Class
KCCI reporter Eric Hanson told the J173 Broadcasting Reporting class he strives to find interesting characters through whom he can tell his stories. Some ideas arrive by e-mail or telephone calls, while others come from experience. An Iowa farm boy, Hanson attended Roland-Story High School and Wartburg College. Following TV internships in Minneapolis and Waterloo,...
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Panel and workshop will focus on media business models
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication in partnership with the College of Business and Public Administration is offering a two-part panel discussion and workshop focusing on how media organizations are creating and adapting to new business models, as well as redefining mediums of communication. The Changing Business of Media consists of two sessions targeted...
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Pisarski represents Drake at Iowa Legislator Breakfast
Advertising Professor Dorothy Pisarski represented Drake University at the 6th Annual Iowa Legislator Breakfast on March 19 at the Capitol. Officers and members of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) met with legislators to advocate for the ad profession position on taxes and potential legislation. Approximately fifty legislators shared dialogue with the AAF. ...
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Drake Magazine is finalist for SPJ awards
Drake Magazine has been named as a finalist in the Society of Professional Journalist’s Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards. Student photography and writing also were honored. The Drake nominees are: Drake Magazine, best student magazine Ben Curtis, Drake Magazine, feature photography Meagan Flynn, The Times-Delphic, feature writing Carter Osgood, Drake Magazine, general news photography...