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Return to Washington

Politics professor Rachel Caufield and journalism professor Jill Van Wyke are returning to Washington, D.C., in 2015 for another January term course. They will take Drake University students to the nation’s capital for two weeks to study the new Congress, particularly legislative gridlock, partisanship, and the likelihood of collaboration and compromise in policy-making. They’ll also...

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Prof. Inman Picks Top 5 at SXSW

By Jeff Inman, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Drake University AUSTIN, TEXAS – They call it Nerd Spring Break for a reason. Every March social media junkies, venture capital gurus, scruffy bearded programmers and would-be Mark Zuckerbergs all converge on downtown Austin for South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive. While the annual SXSW convention covers more that...

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Video: The 8 Truths of Journalism Today

Tanner Stransky, senior editor at HBO Digital & Social Media, and Rachel DeSchepper, director of digital content at AllYou.com, presented “The 8 Truths of Journalism Today: Surviving in a Constantly Changing Media Environment,” at Drake University on Feb. 19, 2014, in the Cowles Library Reading Room. Starsky and DeSchepper are Drake School of Journalism and...

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How to apply for the Professor Richard Tapscott Reporting Award

The Professor Richard Tapscott Reporting Award comes from funds donated by friends and former students of the late Rick Tapscott, who taught SJMC reporting and writing classes from 2007 until his death in December 2013. The Tapscott Award recognizes journalism work that reflects the values Rick tried to instill in his students: curiosity, accuracy, integrity, humanity,...