Come celebrate with us! Help us welcome our three new faculty members — Grace Provenzano, Catherine Staub and Matthew Thornton — with music and an ice cream social this Thursday, Sept. 17, 4-5:30 p.m., in the Meredith Hall atrium. (Rain location: Mer. 104.) Have lunch with a CNN producer Join Glen Dacy, FA’84, supervising producer...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Sept. 7
Awash in awards Several Drake JMC students and recent graduates are finalists in two major national contests that honor the best of collegiate journalism. The slew of recognitions, from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association, recognize reporting and writing, multimedia, design, photography and video. Read the full story. SJMC alums nominated for Emmys...
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SJMC students are finalists in national contests
Several Drake JMC students and recent graduates are finalists in two major national contests that honor the best of collegiate journalism. The slew of recognitions, from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association, recognize reporting and writing, multimedia, design, photography and video. In the Associated Collegiate Press contest: Amanda Horvath and Faith Brar are...
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SJMC Monday Memo | Aug. 31, 2015
3 new professors join faculty The SJMC welcomes three new faculty members this fall. Catherine Staub, CEO of Lexicon, was appointed as the new Fisher-Stelter chair of magazine journalism. Matt Thornton, formerly of Louisiana College, joins the PR faculty. Grace Provenzano, who comes from San Francisco State University, will teach in news and digital media...
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Drake University publication named best online magazine
Urban Plains, an innovative multimedia website by Drake University journalism students, has nabbed top honors in the 2015 national journalism educators’ awards contest. Urban Plains was named the best online magazine by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In addition, Kayli Kunkel, a graduating Drake senior from Dubuque, won first place for...
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Drake SJMC ranked in top 3 percent
The Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been ranked in the top 3% for both quality and value by collegefactual.com. The list rates schools based on “quality schools that are focused on delivering an education in Communication and Journalism and that are successful at it, with graduates among the top earners after...
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SJMC Monday Memo | May 11, 2015
Good luck on your final exams and projects. Have a great summer, and to our SJMC graduates: Congratulations and please stay in touch! — The SJMC faculty and staff Last hurrah of spring 2015 Huge applause for Cole Norum, whose photo illustration for last fall’s Drake Magazine won a national Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark...
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Training: How to cover the Iowa Caucuses
We are teaming up with Poynter and the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement for a free, four-day training called How to Cover the Iowa Caucuses. If you’re interested in applying, here are full details.
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SJMC Monday Memo | May 4, 2015
Farewell “card” for Professor Blachford Professor Lori Blachford is leaving SJMC at the end of this semester to explore new adventures. Be sure to stop in and say goodbye to her and sign the white board “card” in the back lobby of Meredith Hall near the atrium. Congratulations on terrific capstones, seniors! Applause to the...
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SJMC Monday Memo | April 27, 2015
We rock! Radio-TV producing senior Annelise Tarnowski was named the Oreon E. Scott award winner at the University’s Adams Leadership Institute awards ceremony last week. That means Annelise will be the student speaker at commencement on May 16. This is the first time in about 15 years that an SJMC student has been chosen to...