Urban Plains sweeps BEA category Student work published on the senior capstone website Urban Plains swept the “small team” category at this year’s Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts. The winners were: 1st Place: Matthew Gogerty, Adam Rogan and Autumn Meyer; “500 Miles on 500 Dollars” 2nd Place: Autumn Meyer and Daniela Buvat; “Save the...
Category: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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Drake senior named Fulbright semi-finalist
Drake University senior Meghan Walters has been named a semi-finalist for the 2018-2019 Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
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Nine Bulldogs earn Forty Under 40 honors
Nine members of the Drake University community were named to the Des Moines Business Record Forty Under 40 class for 2018.
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SJMC Monday Memo | Feb. 5, 2018
PR student wins prestigious science fellowship Katrina Sletten, a public relations, astronomy and physics triple major, has received a summer internship designed to mentor undergraduate women in aerospace. The 36 Brooke Owens Fellows are selected for “their talent, their experience, their commitment to service and their creativity.” Fellows are matched by industry leaders to intern positions...
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Registration opens for Drake’s summer journalism camp
Registration is now open for our Media Now summer camp July 8-11, 2018, at Drake University in Des Moines. Students in the four-day summer journalism camp will stay in Drake dorms and get to experience what college life is like. This is the third year that Drake has hosted a Media Now summer camp. This...
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Drake students collaborate with Des Moines Playhouse
The Des Moines Community Playhouse is taking the show on the road this summer, and Drake students are helping the nonprofit community theater group to spread the word.
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Drake lecture to focus on U.S.-Japanese relations
A leading scholar of U.S.-Japanese relations will discuss the state of the Asia-Pacific region during heightened world tensions in a lecture on March 1 at Drake University.
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SJMC Monday Memo | Jan. 29, 2018
Welcome to spring semester! Spring semester 2018 brings a few changes to Meredith Hall . . . It’s a girl! Weighing a teensy bit over 6 pounds, baby Coralin Jane Quinn this month joined mom Mallory Quinn, the SJMC dean’s assistant; dad Ryan, and big brother Max. Mallory will be on maternity leave until spring...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Jan. 22, 2018
J Term class visits Drake’s Mexican partner SJMC internship coordinator Carlyn Crowe, far right, and English professor Jody Swilky, back row fourth from right, are leading a January Term class to Monterrey Tec, a University partner institution in Mexico. The class is examining the “Americanization of Mexico.” Spring assistantships available with University Communications University Communications has three opens...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Jan. 15, 2018
Ad senior is finalist for Young Professional award SJMC advertising major Sam Fathallah is a finalist for the Des Moines Young Professional Creative of the Year award. Sam is founder/owner of Sam Fathallah Creative, a film and photography agency, and he’s also served as Drake Magazine art director. The winner, as determined by public votes (vote...