Drake SJMC grad Greg Swan will be speaking to two classes Thursday morning. He will talk to David Remund's PR Writing class at 9:30 a.m. and Chris Snider's Social Media Strategies class at 11 a.m.
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SJMC to host “Community in Diversity” visiting professional on March 8
Tracy Baim is founder and publisher of Windy City Media Group, Chicago’s largest gay-oriented media organization. She has written books on gay history and politics, produced movies and is a frequent contributor to national publications. She has received multiple awards for her journalism and community work.
DBS hosting film festival March 4
SAB and DBS have teamed up to create a student film festival on March 4. Students can submit their 15-minute (or shorter) creative films to the SAB Entertainment Mailbox by midnight March 4 for a chance to win $200 (second place is $150).
SJMC Students win Gold
Drake SJMC students were victorious at the American Advertising Federation of Des Moines (AAF of Des Moines) annual ADDY® Awards show on Saturday, February 11. Drake Students won the following local ADDYS: · GOLD ADDY: Kat Moore, “Branching Out Florist” · SILVER ADDY: Monica Worsley, “All our campus in a flower” In addition, sophomore Zachery...
DrakeLINE 2012 Premieres
The Electronic Media capstone has produced its first of 12 newscasts this semester. Begun in 1993, the Spring Semester offering primarily involves seniors in Radio-Television Producing and Broadcast News, but students in other classes contribute content and other skills.
T-D named Iowa College Paper of the Year
The Times-Delphic also won first place for general excellence. Senior Ann Schnoebelen won three first-place writing awards. The awards covered work published in 2010-11, under Editor Lizzie Pine.
Advertising Age editor Abbey Klaassen will visit Drake
Abbey Klaassen, editor of Advertising Age and a 2002 graduate of Drake University, will visit campus Wednesday, February 1, as part of the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies Visiting Professionals Series.
SJMC Advertising Students Win ADDY Award
For the third year in a row, Drake Advertising Students have won an ADDY Award in the American Advertising Federation of Des Moines ADDY Award Competition.
Magazine class makes iPad app a study in e-publishing
Assistant prof. Jeff Inman's senior magazine capstone at Drake University feels equal parts college-newspaper-the-night-before-press and professional blog newsroom. Perhaps that's because the veteran of alternative weeklies, including Des Moines'Cityview, runs this class of over a dozen senior journalism students like a commercial publication.
Think wins third Pacemaker
Drake University's journalism capstone publication, Think, recently won an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award. News/Internet and magazine majors produce the newsmagazine as a semester-long project during their senior year.