First Amendment trial being held at Drake Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri is scheduled to go on trial starting today, Monday, March 8, at the Drake Legal Clinic. Her trial will be livestreamed at live.drake.edu. Sahouri was arrested last summer while covering the Black Lives Matter protests in Des Moines. Andrea’s alma mater, Columbia Journalism...
Category: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Drake SJMC chosen for Scripps Howard internship program
The Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been chosen as a partner institution for the Scripps Howard Foundation summer journalism internship program, joining about 20 other universities around the country. The foundation seeks to help students obtain real-life industry experience, and is especially interested in helping to diversify the journalism field. As a Scripps...
SJMC Monday Memo | March 1, 2021
Scripps Howard Internship Scholarship available for summer 2021 The Drake SJMC has been chosen as a partner institution for the Scripps Howard Foundation summer journalism internship program, joining about 20 other universities around the country. The foundation seeks to help students obtain real-life industry experience, and is especially interested in helping to diversify the journalism...
Digital marketing professional, scholar to join Drake SJMC faculty
University of Iowa Ph.D. candidate Ryan Stoldt will join the Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication in fall 2021 as an assistant professor of advertising. Stoldt previously worked as a digital marketing professional. Stoldt’s teaching and research interests focus on how data is used to make decisions in creative industries. He primarily teaches...
SJMC Monday Memo | Feb. 22, 2021
Welcome Ryan Stoldt to the SJMC family! Ryan Stoldt will join the Drake SJMC in fall 2021 as an assistant professor of advertising. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Ryan’s teaching and research interests focus on how data is used to make decisions in creative industries. He...
SJMC Monday Memo | Feb. 15, 2021
Drake hosts first career conference this week Drake University has created its first Career Conference with you in mind. And with SJMC alums ready to help enhance your career journey. A positive impact of operating in a virtual environment is the ability to connect in new ways and with experts who in the past were...
SJMC Monday Memo | Feb. 8, 2021
Drake student places 6th in national Hearst writing contest Ashley Flaws, a December 2019 SJMC graduate, has placed in the top 10 in the national Hearst Explanatory Writing Competition. Drake SJMC currently is in first place in the annual Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition after two Drake students also won awards in the feature writing contest...
Drake student places in top 10 in Hearst explanatory reporting contest
Ashley Flaws, a December 2019 graduate of the Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has placed in the top 10 in the national Hearst Explanatory Writing Competition. Drake SJMC currently is in first place in the annual Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition after two Drake students won awards in the 2020 feature writing contest. Ashley...
SJMC seniors among Fulbright semi-finalists
Two Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) students are among the three Drake semi-finalists this year for the post-graduate Fulbright Scholarship: Lucius Pham (SJMC) is a semi-finalist for an English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea Elijah Rockhold (Arts and Sciences) is a semi-finalist for an English Teaching Assistantship in France Delainey Thorud (SJMC)...
SJMC Monday Memo | Feb. 1, 2021
Former SJMC professor Joe R. Patrick dies Longtime SJMC professor and associate dean Joe R. Patrick died this weekend just a few weeks shy of his 97th birthday. We lost a great journalist, a good man and a legendary teacher and mentor who taught the art of editing to generations of Drake students. He was...